The Ministry of Construction has just sent a document to the People's Committees of the provinces and centrally run cities on strengthening the prevention of COVID-19 epidemic on construction sites to ensure the health and safety of workers in the context of the pandemic. The Covid-19 pandemic is progressing very complicatedly.
The document "Guidelines for the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic on construction sites" has been researched and issued by the Ministry of Construction and published on the Ministry's website. To ensure the effective prevention of Covid-19 on the construction site, the following contents have been applied by Sigma Engineering JSC according to the guidance of the Ministry, to ensure safe work on the construction site:
- Ensure the requirements for prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic according to regulations of the Ministry of Health, localities, and this guide at construction sites in the area.
- For local areas that are implementing according to Directives No. 15/CT-TTg, No. 16/CT-TTg, based on actual local conditions, specific works will be organized based on considering the prescribed criteria and several principles:
- Construction works in service of disease prevention and control; works under important national projects, key projects of provinces and centrally run cities under decisions of competent authorities; construction works under urgent orders in accordance with the law on construction; works in service of national defense and security have been constructed.
- Works used for industrial production, transportation, agriculture and rural development, facilities providing technical infrastructure facilities outside urban areas, far away from concentrated residential areas central.
- Construction works that are about to be completed when they are put into operation and use have great socio-economic significance (construction volume has been carried out over 80%), works under construction must be continue to deploy to ensure engineering works, safety of community life, or affect, cause unsafety for adjacent works.
- Construction works in industrial zones, clusters, export processing zones, high-tech zones, repair, and renovation works for factories and equipment within the premises of the enterprise.
- Buildings used for civil purposes in residential areas have fences around the construction area and have a distance to neighboring houses and works. The main traffic axis has a minimum distance of 30m or more. Particularly for separate houses, the number of workers present at the construction site must not exceed 10 people.
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5K principles are absolutely guaranteed on Sigma's construction sites
- Particularly for areas with very high risk (red zone), all construction works will be suspended, except for construction works used for epidemic prevention and control purposes.