The Department of Enterprise is working with the Chamber of Commerce to offer online workshops for companies about how to minimise Covid risks while remaining open for business as usual.

The sessions will take place today (Thursday) at 12pm and then 2pm for office-based businesses, and Friday at 12pm and 2pm for customer-facing businesses (such as retail and hospitality).

The sessions will include discussion by a panel of experts on cleaning and hygiene measures, ventilation and air conditioning, employee policies, track and trace measures for visitors.

There will also be guidance on risk assessments, and how to manage office space, events and meetings.

The workshops are being offered as the government moves to a policy of mitigation, which will involve businesses ’learning to live in a world with Covid.’

The people who go can submit questions beforehand and book for the free online events on the Isle of Man Chamber of Commerce website.

Potential attendees have already asked questions such around: Whether staff should be asked to work from home after returning from off-island travel, whether the government would be covering wage support for staff isolating after being track and traced, and if staff can continue to work if one of their household has recently returned from abroad.