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Corona prevention tips for people who work in factories during the time of COVID-19

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Important things to be remembered in work place

• Be informed and prepared.

• Maintain social distancing (6 feet).

• Wash your hands frequently.

• Use alcohol-based hand sanitizer.

• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth.

• Stay home when you are sick.

• Cough or sneeze into a tissue or your elbow.

• Clean and disinfect frequently touched objectsand surfaces such as cell phones.

• Be prepared if your child’s school, daycare facility, or your worksite is temporarily closed

Employer and worker responsibilities

Employers and workers have responsibilities under the OSH Act.

• The Occupational Safety and Health Act requires that employers provide a safeand healthy workplace free of recognized hazards andfollow OSHA standards.

• Workers should participate in the development and implementation of the employer’s safety and health policies and help ensure that they are appropriate and implemented.

Precautionary principle

• When it comes to worker safety, we should be driven by the ‘precautionary principle’ that reasonable steps to reduce risk should not await scientific certainty about the nature of the hazard or risk.

• TransmissionCOVID-19 is spreadfrom person to person mainly through coughing, sneezing, and possibly talking

• and breathing.

• Droplet - respiratory secretions from coughing or sneezing landing on mucosal surfaces (nose, mouth, andeyes)

• Aerosol - a solid particle or liquid droplet suspended in air

• Contact -Touching something with SARS-2 virus on it and then touching mouth, nose or eyes

• Other possible routes: Throughfecal matter

Risk of severe illness

COVID-19 poses a greater risk for severe illness for people with underlying health conditions:

• Heart disease

• Lung disease such as asthma

• Diabetes

• Suppressed immune systems

The elderly have higher rates of severe illness from COVID-19. Children

and younger adults have had less severe illness and death. Because

COVID-19 is new, there are a lot of scientific unknowns such as the

impact on pregnant women and their fetuses.

METHODS TO PREVENT COVID-19 IN THE WORKPLACE

Key steps for preparing for and managing epidemics in the workplace

• Preparing for the threat.

• Implementing preventive measures.

• Implementing the continuity of operations plan.

• Managing business recovery post-epidemic.

Community spread can impact any workplace

• Mitigation may include shutting down events and worksites

where people gather.

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• Many universities and colleges have suspended in person

classes and have moved to distance learning.

• Workers at stadiums, arts centers, and other places where

people gather are impacted.

Consider the impact on workers

• Will a worker be paid if their workplace shuts down or they

are quarantined?

• What can be done for workers who are sick but have no paid

sick leave?

• How can workers cope with the impact if their child’s school

is shut down or their child is placed in quarantine?

• What can be done for low wage and immigrant workers who

have no access to health care?

• Other impacts?

Basic hygiene and social distancing

• Stay home when sick.

• Wash hands or use sanitizer frequently and after coughing,

sneezing, blowing nose, and using the restroom.

• Avoid touching your nose, mouth, and eyes.

• Cover coughs and sneezes with tissues or do it in your sleeve.

• Dispose of tissues in no-touch bins.

• Avoid close contact with coworkers and customers (6 feet)

others.

• Avoid shaking hands/wash hands after physical contact with

Key elements: COVID-19 workplace plan

• Management leadership and employee participation

• Hazard identification and assessment

• Hazard prevention and control

• Risk communication, education, and training

• System evaluation and improvement

• Family preparedness

• Emergency operations procedures

• Post pandemic recovery

Protecting workers

Start with the most effective method to protect workers.

Physically removethe hazard

Replace the hazard

Isolate people from thehazard

Change the way people work

Protect the worker with Personal

Protective Equipment

Administrative controls and work practices

to reduce exposure

• Enable sick workers to stay home

• Establish work from home policy

• Minimizing contact among workers

and clients

• Discontinue non-essential travel

• Limiting the number of staff

present for high potential

exposure tasks

• Training

Additional administrative controls

Soft barriers include use of tables, ropes, signs,

and floor markings to maintain social

distancing.

Adjust policies to reduce exposures

Policies that can help to

reduce exposure to

COVID-19 include:

• Encouraging workers who

are ill to stay home without

fear of reprisals or loss of

pay or benefits

• Using email, phone,

teleconferences instead of

face-to-face contact

• Where applicable, the OSHA PPE standard requires

• Train workers to maintain, store, and replace PPE

• Provide medical evaluation and fit testing

Decontamination

• Employers should developsite specific decontamination

procedures.

• Depending on the workplace,decontamination may require

consultation with the health department or use of a consultant specializing in

environmental cleanup.

• Use of an EPA registereddisinfectant effective isrecommended.

• Worker and buildingoccupant protection isessential to protect

against the virus andadverse effects of the disinfectant.

Respirators

Respirators are needed when there is a

potential for aerosol transmission.

An N95 respirator is the minimum

level of protection to prevent

inhaling coronavirus.

Health care facility identification and

isolation

The most important steps to prevent spread of COVID-19

• Procedures for rapid identification and isolation of suspect

COVID-19 cases.

• Community and hospital procedures to ensure symptomatic

people are not in public places, waiting rooms, reception

areas, emergency departments, or other common areas

• Collect a travel history for patients presenting with fever, cough,

or shortness of breath.

• Immediately isolate – using standard, contact, and droplet

precautions for suspect or confirmed cases.

Prevention in all work settings

• Wash hands after removing gloves or when soiled.

• Keep common surfaces such as telephones, keyboards clean.

• Avoid sharing equipment if possible.

• Minimize group meetings by using phone, email, and avoid close

contact when meetings are necessary.

• Consider telework.

• Limit unnecessary visitors to the workplace.

• Maintain your physical and emotional health with rest, diet, exercise, and relaxation.

Protection of essential workers

• Fire, police, grocery stores, gas stations, utilities, communications, and health care facilities are examples of essential industries and operations that remain open during a pandemic shutdown.

• A site and job task specific risk assessment should be

conducted to document the necessary protective measures.

• Social distancing measures include use of barriers, signs,modifying work procedures that require close human interaction. Other steps include increased cleaning anddisinfection, use of PPE and respirators, and training.Portable containers

• Portable containers mustbe labeled

• Exception: portablecontainers do not haveto be labeled if only the

worker who transfers thechemical uses it duringthat shift

Mental health and stress

As the number of cases of COVID-19 increase, so does theassociated anxiety and stress. Consider the following steps:

• Use your smart phone to stay connected to family and friends. Shift from texting to voice or video calling to feel more connected.

• Keep comfortable. Do more of the things you enjoy doing at home.

• Practice stress relief whenever you feel anxiety building – do some deep breathing, exercise, read, dig in the garden, whatever works for you.

• Avoid unhealthy behavior such as excess drinking – that will just increase your anxiety afterwards.

• Keep looking forward. Think about plans you’d like to make down the

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