SOLOMON ISLANDS GOVERNMENT
Ministry of Public Service
P O Box G29
Honiara
Solomon Islands
Telephone +677 25550
PUBLIC SERVICE CIRCULAR MEMORANDUM NO: 01/2022
Permanent Secretaries and equivalent
Provincial Secretaries
Chief Executive Officers
Heads of Department
Human Resource Managers
23 January, 2022
RE: SIG-PUBLIC SERVICE-WIDE OPERATIONS AMIDST COVID-19 COMMUNITY TRANSMISSION
- Following lifting of the Lock-Down in Honiara on 6am Sat 22 Jan 2022, the SIG-Public Service businesses will reopen on Mon 24 Jan 2022 with strict conditions as required by the SIG-MHMS Covid19 health and safety
- As we enhance health and safety measures against Covid19, reopening of Public Service businesses in Honiara on the said date recognises the significance of keeping our local economy afloat by ensuring productivity is maintained and that basic and essential services to our people continuously running. Public servants are therefore requested to resume duties with strict health and safety
Approaching our business
- To lessen risk of exposure by our public servant employees to Covid19 virus, respective Ministries/Agencies management are instructed to approach our business operations as follows:
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- Provide ministry-operated transportations for officers traveling to and from workplace particularly to officers/employees who do not have a vehicle;
- An officer or employee who may exposed to the Virus must not resume duty instead seek appropriate medical assistance;
- Reactivate work-from-home arrangement to officers who may unable to attend to duty office/place due to high risks by providing work-enabling ICT devices;
- Ensure officers and employees are equipped with personal protective gears appropriate for use in their respective duty places;
- Officers and employees wear face-masks, use hand sanitisers, and maintain social distancing while discharging duties at respective workplaces;
- Where appropriate organise inter-ministry meetings virtually on-line as per the SIG- Virtual Meeting Policy;
- Limiting number of clients and customers entering SIG-Ministry/Agency premises at a given time.
Public seeking SIG-Services
- Furthermore, to lessen risk from contracting the virus from the general public, respective ministries/agencies management must ensure that customers and clients seeking SIG-Public Services must:
- Comply to all Covid19 health and safety protocols;
- Wear face-mask at all times when entering SIG-Ministry/Agency premises;
- Show proof of completed Covid19 vaccinations at the respective Ministry/agency security gates;
- Ensure that customers or clients that do not meet health and safety requirements above be disallowed entry;
- Ensure hands sanitised at security gate entry
- I deeply thank you for your cooperation and support as IUMI TUGETA fight against Covid19 at the same time continue discharging needed services to the Government and its
Yours sincerely,
Nego Sisiolo
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Public Services