A New Safety-Conscious World Post Covid

After a year that many would like to forget, and coming just over two weeks before Christmas, the past few weeks has seen a surge in good news from a British perspective. With the news emerging from the UK Government that Britain had become the first country to formally approve the rollout of the Prizer and BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine followed by a swift roll out. The signs and the green shoots of optimism for the world to return to a sense of normalcy are starting to appear, and with that news comes a sense of optimism. A sense of optimism that will be welcomed by the business sector that has, for so long, and powered by its entrepreneurial, solution-led instincts, had to work within extreme limitations and ride out this global pandemic.Whilst we have all faced restrictions and limitations on what we could do to maintain, let alone increase, business during the pandemic, at Restrata, our core mission being the digital transformation of safety and security, we have throughout asked ourselves one question: how can we help?

That is why for the past 10 months we have been a pioneer in helping bring back live sport both in the UK and internationally; a role which led to us handling the COVID-SAFE bio- secure environments to the England cricket test series, relocated Indian Premier League and live fan trials at the Kia Oval. For a British Safety and Security Technology company, we have been proud to deploy our Restrata Platform to play our part in getting sport, that most global of sectors, through Covid-19 as best it can.

For the business sector and other industries, we have also been able to put the Restrata COVID-SAFE Platform to good use, providing social distancing, contact tracing, access restrictions, communications, symptom screening, creating capacity limits and bio-secure bubbles for businesses of all sizes – giving their workforce confidence that, if they can’t work from home then they can do so, safely and securely.

As we continue our fight to defeat Covid, we are hearing more about what this year has meant for ‘working from home’ culture, including its benefits and its limitations; not least with regard to the effect on people’s mental health and their need for social interaction. We are hearing more about the impact that the pandemic might have on companies’ office space and configuration, with a suggested lesser need for desk space and greater need for collaboration & social interactions. One thing is for sure: as a result of Covid, the office of the near future will look different than the office of the recent past.

And it is this changing function of the workplace that gets the Restrata team helping businesses assess what more they can do and how they can deploy technology efficiently to make their workplace fit for a post-Covid world.