COVID-19 precautions checklist for face-to-face bookings

Prior to meeting for a face-to-face booking, Like Family Members and Social Carers should consider what steps they ought to take to ensure their safety from COVID-19.

Like Family strongly advises adhering to the following procedures when on face-to-face bookings:

• Keep 1.5 metres distance apart from each other, for example, when providing transport, encourage your passenger to sit in the back seat of the car.
• Wear disposable gloves when possible, especially when cooking, cleaning or helping someone with hygiene.
• Wear a mask if you need to get within 1.5 metres of someone, or when cooking
• Disinfect all areas that are being used both before and after the booking, such as the car, table, laptops, phones, and benchtops.
• Avoid physical contact such as shaking hands and hugging. It’s not impolite, it’s just good hygiene! Try waving or bowing instead.
• Regularly and thoroughly wash your hands for at least 30 seconds with soap, and use an alcohol-based sanitizer on your hands both prior to starting the booking, at intervals during the booking as well as once the booking has concluded.
• Avoid touching your face, and remind others to do the same. Make it a game if it helps, try to catch someone touching their face!
• Keep informed. The COVID-19 situation is changing, and therefore it is important to keep up to date on the latest developments.
• Reduce your chances of exposure. Cook food to have at home, avoid attending large gatherings and complete your workouts at home.