Vehicle cleaning after a positive test

[POSTMAN]

Vehicle Cleaning

Where a confirmed case of Coronavirus has been identified, Regional Public health bodies will provide advice on that affected employees case and the need for cleaning of specific areas within their workplace including equipment and any vehicle use.

• RM Fleet central booking helpline should be advised as soon as a positive test case has been confirmed by the operational site, of the vehicle that requires cleaning. The booking can be contacted - RM Fleet on 0345 2660005 (select option 3)
• The vehicle must remain quarantined until the specialist clean has been undertaken.
• RM Fleet will arrange a clean / sanitisation of the vehicle by an approved sub-contractor at the RM location.
• An RM fleet approved sub-contractor will confirm a booking date for the vehicle to be
• sanitised.
• The sanitisation process has been approved by RM Safety.
• Additionally, all general debris & rubbish (coffee cups, something for you cards, sandwich bags) will be removed from the vehicle and doubled bagged, the bags will be left at the RM site for disposal via normal procedures.
• Other items such as clothing or RM equipment will be single bagged at left at the RM
• location for inspection after 72-hour quarantine.
• Line managers should make a note in the vehicle logbook of the date the vehicle was sanitised.
Where vehicle cleaning is identified (this will not be undertaken unless against a Positive Coronavirus diagnosis (following testing) has been completed), RM Fleet will arrange for the vehicle(s) in which the affected colleagues who have driven the vehicle to be cleaned.
The vehicle must be left in quarantine until the specialist clean has been undertaken.

Note 1: No vacuuming or brushing of surfaces will be undertaken so as not to cause any virus particles to become air borne.
Note 2: Removal of debris in the vehicle is part of the standard daily check.
Note 3: the process is to sanitise and kill any virus in the vehicle, it is not a valet process

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[2yearpostie]

Never gonna happen, not enough vans so most doms will take some wipes out and do it themselves, Doubt theyll fail a job and send a floater home cause a van needs to be cleaned.

[BA]

How are we able to determine if this procedure has taken place ?


from some 100+ drivers there have been a number of positive tests , myself included ( I was very ill with it ) and other than the occasional
driver doing a cursory touch-point clean , or at least indicating they did on the vehicle check app , To my knowledge none of our vehicles have ever been taken out of service let alone 'deep cleaned'. Of particular concern is the use of vehicles by agency drivers on the weekend to facilitate collections of covid test kits, we have no way of knowing if they are covid positive.

[POSTMAN]

Down to reps and other peeps to push for it to be done properly.

[Haditup]

How are we able to determine if this procedure has taken place ?


Of particular concern is the use of vehicles by agency drivers on the weekend to facilitate collections of covid test kits, we have no way of knowing if they are covid positive.

I fetched this up with management last year when the chance of catching Covid was 30 times lower.
There was not and still isn’t a stringent protocol being practiced.
If an agency guy doesn’t turn up for work, nobody knows the reason why and it maybe Covid related absence.
Let’s face it ,nobody I know wipes the vehicles ,if you don’t want to catch Covid you have to treat as though the last person who used the vehicle is positive.
Royal Mail could invest on prevention by the use of cab sanitiser bombs before change of driver.

[POSTMAN]

Well we have sorry they have just won an award for it so...

[BA]

Down to reps and other peeps to push for it to be done properly.

oh yeah, but apathy rules.