Awareness of CORONA Virus

Getting your workplace ready for COVID- 19. What Preventive measures should be taken by businesses?

                As the corona virus spreads around the globe and preventing the spread of an outbreak requires a massive global effort. We have taken a little effort to share with you the preventive measures against the new corona virus that was published by the World Health Organization (WHO). These instructions will be helpful in protecting your workplace from getting and spreading COVID -19.You can share it with your customers, employees, and contractors you know in an account of preventing the spread of the disease.Everyone (including businesses and employers) has a role to play in getting ready and staying healthy.

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How COVID19 spreads?

COVID-19 can spread from someone who has cough as they release droplets of infected fluid. These droplets may fall on nearby surfaces and objects such as desks, tables or telephones and on touching these surfaces and then touching your eyes, nose or mouth or from a person standing within one meter with COVID-19. They can catch it by breathing in droplets coughed out or exhaled by them. persons infected with COVID-19 experience mild symptoms and recover. However, people with weakened immune systems, people over 40, and people with conditions such as diabetes, heart, and lung disease are also more vulnerable to serious illness.Simple low-cost measures mentioned below will help prevent the spread of infections in your workplace, such as colds, flu and stomach bugs.

 Make sure your workplaces are clean and hygienic

           Surfaces (e.g. desks and tables) and objects (e.g. telephones, keyboards) need to be wiped with disinfectant regularly. This is because contamination on surfaces touched into eyes, mouth, nose by employees and customers is one way of getting COVID-19 spread.

  Promote regular and thorough hand-washing by your employees & customers

•  Put sanitizing hand rub dispensers in prominent places around the workplace.
•  Make sure these dispensers are regularly refilled.
•  Display posters promoting hand-washing – ask your local public health authority for these or look at www.WHO.int. 
• Combine this with other communication measures such as offering guidance from occupational health and safety officers, briefings at meetings and information on the intranet to promote hand-washing. 
• Make sure that staff, contractors and customers have access to places where they can wash their hands with soap and water.

Consult National Travel Advice before going on business travel

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  Before traveling

•   Make sure your organization and its employees have the latest information on areas where COVID-19 is spreading.
• ·You can find this at https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports/
•  Based on the latest information, your organization should assess the benefits and risks related to upcoming travel plans.
• ·Avoid sending employees who may be at higher risk of serious illness (e.g. older employees and those with medical conditions such as diabetes, heart and lung disease) to areas where COVID-19 is spreading.
•  Make sure all persons traveling to locations reporting COVID-19 are briefed by a qualified professional (e.g. staff health services, health care provider or local public health partner)
• Make sure your employees who are about to travel carry small bottles (under 100 CL) of alcohol-based hand rub for regular hand-washing. 

While Traveling

• Encourage employees to wash their hands regularly and stay at least one meter away from people who are coughing or sneezing.
• Ensure employees know what to do and who to contact if they feel ill while traveling.
• Ensure that your employees comply with instructions from local authorities where they are traveling.                                                                                                   
• When you or your employees return from traveling
• Employees who have returned from an area where COVID-19 is spreading should monitor themselves for symptoms for 14 days and take their temperature twice a day.
• If they develop even a mild cough or low-grade fever (i.e. a temperature of 37.3 C or more) they should stay at home and self-isolate.
• Advice those who are sick to stay home

Develop a contingency and business continuity planfor an outbreak in the communities where your business operates

• The plan will help prepare your organization for the possibility of an outbreak of COVID19 in its workplaces or community.
• The plan should address how to keep your business running even if a significant number of employees, contractors and suppliers cannot come to your place of business - either due to local restrictions on travel or because they are ill.
• For small and medium-sized businesses without in-house staff health and welfare support, develop partnerships and plans with your local health and social service providers in advance of any emergency
• Your local or national public health authority may be able to offer support and guidance in developing your plan.

Remember

  Now is the time to prepare for COVID-19. Simple precautions and planning can make a big difference.

How to stay informed

       Find the latest information from WHO on where COVID-19 is spreading

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/getting-workplace-ready-for-covid-19.pdf

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports/ Advice and guidance from WHO on COVID-19

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

https://www.epi-win.com/