This guidance applies to volunteers as well as employed staff. You should check the guidance for sport facilities, close contact services and retail shops, stores and branches and ensure you adhere to any relevant requirements. Avoid face-to-face working wherever possible, for example by arranging desks/workspaces so that staff are back-to-back or side-to-side. Where it is not possible to ensure social distancing and minimise household mixing, communal kitchens should remain closed. You should check the guidance for sport facilities, close contact services and retail shops, stores and branches and ensure you adhere to any relevant requirements. You can find more information in the. If this applies to your facility, you must ask every customer or visitor aged 16 and over to scan the NHS QR code using their NHS COVID-19 app or provide their name and contact details, not just a lead member of the group. You should also consider whether symptomatic guests should clean their own rooms and strip their own beds, to avoid exposing cleaning or housekeeping staff to unnecessary risk. You can do this by listening and talking to them about the work they do and how you will manage the risks from COVID-19. Hospitality venues may provide takeaway food and drinks. As an employer, you cannot decide who the representative will be. Overnight stays are permitted within social contact limits, in groups of up to 6 people or as 2 households/bubbles. Frequently clean toilet facilities. If touch-based security devices are necessary, adjust processes to reduce the risk of transmission (for example by cleaning pass readers regularly, and asking staff to hold their passes near readers rather than touching them).Within the facility: Reduce movement by discouraging non-essential trips within buildings and sites, for example by restricting access to some areas, or encouraging use of radios or telephones (note that items shared by staff members will require cleaning between users). Review guidance for employers and employees on statutory sick pay due to coronavirus. Saunas and steam rooms must remain closed. Ensure that demonstrations or other promotional activities are designed to minimise direct contact and to maintain social distancing. People should stay socially distanced from anyone they do not live with or share a bubble with. - Communal spaces such as lounges or lobbies may remain open to guests but no food or drink should be served in these spaces, people should not be encouraged to gather and social distancing should be observed. Guests should be encouraged not to gather in communal kitchens. The rules on what you need to do when a group enters your venue have changed. Everyone allowed to enter England from outside the Common Travel Area (Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man) must quarantine for 10 days and take COVID-19 tests on day 2 and day 8 of their quarantine. This is permitted provided that the only shared facilities used by guests at the campsite or caravan park are: receptions, washing facilities (including facilities for laundering clothes), public toilets, baby changing rooms, breastfeeding rooms, water points and waste disposal points. STEP 3: from 17 May, the following measures will apply. You can find more information on compliance and enforcement in the guidance on closing certain businesses and venues in England. Where you are already using PPE in your work activity to protect against non-COVID-19 risks, you should continue to do so. STEP 3: organised residential visits (schools, colleges, further education and higher education providers). Self-contained tourist accommodation in Wales – including many hotels and cottages – reopened on March 27. There will be some types of accommodation where self-isolation would not be possible, for example if there are shared washing facilities or if the risk to the host, owner or staff cannot be mitigated. This includes consideration of reasonable adjustments for employees or customers with disabilities, including hidden disabilities that are not immediately obvious. See the section on face coverings and PPE for more information. In line with the roadmap set out by the UK and Welsh Governments in February and March 2021, we plan to be back offering our signature warm-hearted welcome at all Warner properties from Monday 17 May 2021. The use of indoor toilets (and facilities such as baby changing rooms) is permitted even if access is via shared indoor communal areas such as lifts or corridors, as long as those communal areas are used solely to access the facilities and not to access accommodation. Where there are capacity limits, these do not apply to venue/site staff, who are not counted towards the number of attendees. Saunas and steam rooms must remain closed. Minimise unnecessary face-to-face contact by making staff accessible to guests via phone, emails and guest apps. These facilities can open even where access is via shared indoor communal areas such as lifts or corridors, as long as those communal areas are used solely to access the facilities and not to access accommodation. In case of a confirmed or suspected case of COVID-19, follow the guidance on cleaning after a known or suspected case of COVID-19. Campsites and caravan parks are permitted to open for leisure stays, under certain conditions. The UK government has contracted 4,600 rooms in 16 hotels, with more available if necessary, for travellers from "red list" countries. You can find more information in the section on protecting people at higher risk. You can find more guidance on managing accommodation with shared bathroom facilities in the section on changes to facilities and services. Increase the frequency of cleaning for higher-risk areas (such as surfaces) and encourage frequent hand washing. Some exemptions apply. Provide accessible hand sanitiser for the operation of lifts, and reduce maximum occupancy to ensure that social distancing can be maintained. That remains to be seen but here are some places you won’t check into the next time you head to the Big Apple. They should stay in their accommodation and should not use shared areas (such as TV rooms or lounges) or shared dining facilities. Private vehicles can be used, within the legal gathering limits. This includes people with a positive test, people who are advised to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace or the NHS COVID-19 app, and people required to self-isolate in relation to travel. This includes guidance on how to operate safely within the current restrictions, for those venues which are permitted to operate. To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. 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If concerns still cannot be resolved, you or your workers can contact your employee representative, or your trade union if you have one. Consider alternatives to touch-based security devices (such as keypads), for example so that staff can show a pass to security personnel from a distance. However, guests do not have to disclose their test results or other personal information about their health, and it is not your responsibility to check the guest’s test results or enforce self-isolation rules; enforcement of the law remains a matter for the police. In most circumstances where other guests and/or bubbles are also on-site, this will mean a rota system. See the section on managing your workforce for more information. Social distancing should be maintained wherever possible. Workstations should be assigned to an individual wherever possible. In this case, the exemption would not apply, and food and drinks would need to be provided in accordance with the wider hospitality measures (including table service, for venues which serve alcohol). Where it is not possible to ensure social distancing, these areas should remain closed. However, it is not your responsibility to enforce self-isolation rules; enforcement of the law remains a matter for the police. The activity must be ticketed, and venues must have all relevant approvals and authorisations (e.g. Indoor restaurants and bars within guest accommodation should remain closed; there are no exemptions to this in the regulations, meaning that hotels and guest accommodation cannot provide group dining or open restaurants for any purpose. A group made up of 2 households can include more than 6 people, but only where all members of the group are from the same 2 households (each household can include an existing support bubble, if eligible), or an exemption applies. A group made up of 2 households can include more than 6 people, but only where all members of the group are from the same 2 households (each household can include an existing bubble, if eligible), or an exemption applies. You can find more information in the guidance for households with possible coronavirus infection, for contacts of people with confirmed coronavirus infection who do not live with the person, and what to do if you’re told to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace or the NHS COVID-19 app. All accommodation may continue to open for legally permitted reasons, such as where these act as someone’s main residence, where the person cannot return home, for providing accommodation or support to the homeless, or where it is essential to stay there for work, education or training purposes. You should support your workers if they choose to wear face coverings. Communal spaces such as lounges or lobbies may remain open to guests but no food or drink should be served in these spaces. People using communal spaces must adhere to legal gathering limits (groups of up to 6 people or 2 households/bubbles indoors) and should maintain social distancing from others they do not live with or share a bubble with. - Hospitality venues may provide takeaway food and drink (including takeaway alcohol). Check whether you need to service or adjust ventilation systems so that they do not automatically reduce ventilation levels due to lower than normal occupancy levels or poor maintenance.