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Return to Work: Are You Prepared When COVID-19 Tags Along?
Getting back to business as usual might look a bit different these days. Whether you have employees who are subject to a quarantine or isolation order, employees who are reluctant to return to work, or employees who tested positive or have related symptoms, you need to respond appropriately to keep your workforce safe, while maintaining productivity. Read on to find out what you can do if COVID-19 tags along to work.
KEEPING EMPLOYEES SAFE AT WORK
You have obligations to provide safe work and a safe workplace. Part of that likely involves taking steps to keep COVID-19 out of the workplace. One such way is to make sure that no one enters the workplace if they have or may have the disease. This can include screening employees (and visitors) before they enter the building.
SCREENING AND MONITORING EMPLOYEES
In some jurisdictions, employers are mandated to screen employees before they enter the building, and this can include temperature scanning.
If you are required or wish to perform such screenings, you will need to determine which scanning equipment to use. Whichever methods you use to screen employees, they should be accurate and performed consistently.
Under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, employees’ medical information must be kept confidential; therefore, any information about temperatures must be treated as confidential medical information and kept separate from the general personnel files. This means that you should not disclose to the entire workforce which employee tested positive or was exposed.
Designate who will be responsible for employees’ health information and determine which types of methods are used to collect the information, with consideration given to applicable state laws.
Employees who develop symptoms while at work are expected to come forward. The employees may be asked health-related questions and have their temperatures taken. Employees who are found to have COVID-19 symptoms as defined by a public health agency, should be isolated from the rest of the workforce and sent home.
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October 11, 2020 at 02:00PM
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