What might the Government do about Christmas?

[Baxenden Bank]

It would have made sense for the Government to produce a mandatory PDF form to print and mandatory storage rules.

Again, details, pernickety details. This lot don't do detail!

 

[AdamWW]

I haven't sampled the procedure 'in the flesh' but my description was how I read my local pub was going to operate from it's facebook post - enter on a common sheet, then kept securely for however many days, then destroyed. Individual slips, placed immediately into a 'box of the day' I would find entirely reasonable. It's not the publican that concerns me, it's some of the other punters. I would think privacy / security of the data would be particularly important for any female customers.

Absolutely. I think that is a very valid concern. As would be concern about someone walking off with the sheet. So they should probably go in a box that is quite heavy or chained down...

It's very easy to sit here and say what should have been done - much harder to think of every detail and get it right when you're actually having to do it.

But I would have thought it not too late for some guidance to be issued - I presume there is some kind of industry body that might itself issue guidance, in addition to the government.

Although I suspect the bit-of-paper-anyone-can-read may not be entirely GDPR compliant.

 

[A Challenge]

Although I suspect the bit-of-paper-anyone-can-read may not be entirely GDPR compliant.

That doesn't seem to matter, it is to stop coronavirus so anything is alright.

 

[WelshBluebird]

I would regard an A4 sheet of paper, signed and left on the bar for the next person, who is then able to read my name and phone number something of a data privacy issue.

Anywhere doing it that way is doing it wrong.

Even Spoons (for all of their issues) can get this right - a ballot box style system, or for those of us able to, a QR code that you scan at the table. It is bloody easy.
Even the small independent pubs I go to are doing this now, there is no reason a pub or bar can't do it properly

Worth saying that one of the people I follow on Twitter reported this exact issue with a place she went to the other day, and has since had a quiet word with the owner and she said he seemed at least receptive to the idea of doing something a little less at risk!

 

[AdamWW]

Worth saying that one of the people I follow on Twitter reported this exact issue with a place she went to the other day, and has since had a quiet word with the owner and she said he seemed at least receptive to the idea of doing something a little less at risk!

Yes I can quite imagine some places just not having thought it through - and they must have a huge amount to deal with in order to make their establishment "Covid-secure".

Which is why it would have been nice for there to have been some guidance on this so everybody didn't have to work it out for themselves.