Facilities Management: Returning to the Workplace

Learn how to return to work safely. Get practical strategies for evaluating your building systems and spaces, making changes, and managing ongoing health and safety issues.

Introduction

• Returning to the workplace may require some changes

1. Managing Expectations

• Start by evaluating the new normal
• Start thinking like a safety professional

2. Altering the Built Environment

• Changes to spaces
• Dealing with reduced room capacities due to distancing
• The effect flexible schedules have on workspaces
• Options for creating new spaces
• Hybrid meetings require altered conference rooms

3. Managing Sanitation In the Workplace

• Clean air
• Balancing occupant load, increased sanitation, and cleaning staff

Next Steps

• What if I need new space?
• Next steps for your workspace