Supporting Communities Safely - Ventilation survey

Balancing the different harms of COVID is extremely important. Ensuring that groups who can reopen their services are able to do so safely is a key objective shared by Government and community organisations.

Central to this is ensuring that ventilation in our services as as good as it can be. This survey is designed to gather information about aspirations and experiences of community organisations trying to improve ventilation in community facilities in order to make them COVID safe and future proof them against any further developments with the pandemic.

Please take the time to fill it out and/or pass it on to other organisations in your network who either deliver services or support others to do so.

This survey is designed to be completed anonymously and its results will only be used to assist us to makes it easier for community organisations to access resources they need to improve their ventilation systems. Anonymised results will only be used for that purpose and results shared only with Scottish Government and other civil society organisations able to assist with achieving that outcome.

We are trying to gather information as quickly as possible about the issues so please complete the survey as soon as possible. We would ask that you respond by the end of the day on the 3.3.22 at the latest.

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* 1. Is your organisation

A community organisations providing its own services?

An intermediary organisation supporting community groups?

Other (please specify)

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* 2. As part of your response to the pandemic are you currently

trying to adapt the ventilation in your own premises to make it COVID safe?

helping community groups you provide support to to adapt ventilation system's?

responding to requests for information on sources of support or funding for adapting ventilation?

Other (please specify)

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* 3. Have you, or groups you have been supporting, been able to properly asses what ventilation work you may need to do by..

having independent air quality assessments conducted by qualified people?

getting advice from equipment suppliers?

using their own judgement about what is needed?

Other (please specify)

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* 4. What are you trying to do?

Buy CO2 monitors or other equipment

Commission air quality assessements

Improve natural ventilation by upgrading windows or existing vents ,

Install new windows or vents

Upgrade existing mechanical ventilation eg air conditioning or fans

Install new mechanical ventilation

Upgrade COVID resistant filtering in ventilation systems

Purchase additional air purifying devices

Other (please specify)

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* 5. Have you been able to access the funds to meet your own groups needs for funds for adaptions?

Yes

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* 6. Do you know about the Scottish Governments business Ventilation Fund?

Yes

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* 7. If you were successful in accessing the fund, were you awarded..

all the funding you asked for?

enough to make se improvements on your ventilation?

less than you needed to do what you need to do?

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* 8. If it has been difficult to access, what was the reason?

Insufficient knowledge of the existence of the fund

We didn't think we were eligible

The screening process told us we were ineligible

We were able to apply but were subsequently refused

Other (please specify)

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* 9. Are you seeking resources from other funders - if so please tell us about this so that we can share them with other groups?

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* 10. Where have you been getting advice on what to do about ventilation in your facilities?

Directly from government of health service guidance sources

From SCDCs Supporting Communities Safely Resource

From the SCVO Coronavirus hub

From sources such as the health & safety executive

From local Health protection Teams

From Environmental Health Departments

Other (please specify)

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* 11. is there anything else you think it would be useful for us to know to support discussions with Scottish Government and others to help improve ventilation in community facilities?