The Onset of the Covid epedemic brought a lot of changes to the usual working practises although compared to many working enviroments the outdoor enviroment offered fewer restrictions. Visits to sites has been greatly reduced during this period and diggers have had to put up with all sorts of restrictions particularly at the start of the crisis, whilst office staff started working from home, excavation continued although in a reduced form, travel to site began to take on the form of convoys, and staff ended up dispersed over the site at socially acceptable distances – tea breaks became outdoor picnics.
