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Rh work in a workplace in any part of those work premises and any other individual in that workplace.

(2) The exceptions to paragraph (1) are as follows:
 * (a) the nature of the employee’s or worker’s work is such that keeping or maintaining a distance of at least one metre creates a risk to his or her health and safety;
 * (b) the employee or worker is authorised under any Control Order to keep or maintain a shorter distance from another individual.

Minimise physical interaction

20.—(1) Without affecting regulation 19, an employer or a principal must take, so far as is reasonably practicable, such measures at every one of the employer’s work premises or principal’s work premises (as the case may be) as are necessary—
 * (a) to minimise physical interactions between groups of employees of the employer or workers of the principal in each of those work premises; and
 * (b) to ensure that every employee of the employer or every worker of the principal (as the case may be) works consistently with the same group of other individuals in a workplace in each of those work premises.

Illustrations
 * (a) develop separate shifts in a way that minimises physical interactions between groups of employees attending different shifts.
 * (b) separate employees into distinct work areas.
 * (c) divide work areas up further into separate teams.
 * (d) provide suitable separate break areas and separate break times for the separate teams.
 * (e) require teams to use separate entrances and exits from other teams.
 * (f) where employees are from the same household, ensure they work in the same shift and work area.

(2) Without limiting paragraph (1), an employer or a principal occupying any work premises must not—