Working covid guidelines ??

[ilikecrisps]

I’ve been working from home since the very start of the pandemic and I’ve now been asked to attend a meeting in the office near the end of April. It looks as though there will be about 30 people attending. I’ll be 34 weeks pregnant at this point and I’m so worried about being with that many different people in one room and generally being uncomfortable!

Does anyone know if there are any guidelines still on this kind of thing?
I’d like to say to my manager that I don’t want to attend in person but want to see if there’s anything to back this up before I sound like I’m moaning 😂

I'd speak to your midwife? My midwife did say just recently they'd still recommend working from home if you can from 28 weeks so might give you a bit of back up in that respect? I'm feeling anxious about going into the office too, especially as restrictions and testing requirements are so vague and not always required now which is the main source of my worries.

There aren't any guidelines or restrictions any more. Shielding isn't a thing any more.

Thanks I will ask the midwife anyway to check.

I thought that would be the case that everything was scrapped but when I tried to google it wasn’t 100% clear :)

I’ll just have to put my worries aside I think!

Do you have a risk assessment?

I WFH and have basically not pursed or chased a risk assessment with work as I'm at home and my job is flexible. But they did recently talk about an in-person event, which made me bring up needing a risk assessment and very quickly they suggested I not come

You are supposed to get one each trimester I believe. And as this was to cover a one-off event I don't think it was worth the hassle, could find yourself in a similar situation.

Haha no way!
They did one when I first informed them but none of it was covid based it was more about sitting and standing for long periods of time, driving etc so most of it wasn’t applicable being at home.
maybe it’s worth mentioning then to see what they say :) thanks

Does your work have an HR website? My work has a page regarding pregnancy and maternity and it specifically says on it that colleagues who are 28 weeks+ should not be expected to go into the office.