In 2020, our Summer jobsites are going to look a little different than previous years. Working in the heat during the pandemic will require us to redefine our safety measures as temperatures start climbing. Workers putting in a full shift wearing a mask or face covering are going to get hot and sweat more than usual. We need to make sure all workers are staying properly hydrated throughout their shifts.

The goal is to ensure your employees have a safe workplace environment and they know this and feel safe. You should have clearly identified sources for employees to contact if they have questions, concerns or are in need of support. While doing this, you want to maintain as normal a workflow and productivity as possible. Of course, for many employers productivity has taken a major hit, even for those who didn’t have to actually close.

Demand and prices for personal protective equipment is soaring again across the US as coronavirus cases continue to rise in more than half of states.

The following questions and answers were jointly developed and approved by the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). These were discussed on the June 16, 2020 NAOHP Town Hall with Terri Scales of BDA and Donna Lee Gardner.

Businesses and employers can prevent and slow the spread of COVID-19. Employers should plan to respond in a flexible way to varying levels of disease transmission in the community and be prepared to refine their business response plans as needed.
Businesses are strongly encouraged to coordinate with state and local health officials.

The world has changed in an unprecedented way since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and employers have a lot of questions for our experts at Safety.BLR.com®. Read on to see how experts answered a multi-part question from a subscriber about whether employers can mandate the use of facemasks, and what should be done if an employee can’t (or won’t) use the PPE.

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced businesses to maintain and build relationships with consumers when their world has been upended. Businesses are now facing tension between generating sales during a period of extreme economic hardship and respecting the threats to life and livelihood that have altered consumer priorities and preferences. This tension is very real, particularly for newer ventures or smaller business that provide discretionary products and may not have the resources to survive long periods of severely diminished cash flow.

The ICD-10-CM codes provided in this document are intended to provide information on the coding of COVID-19.

When a novel virus with pandemic potential emerges, nonpharmaceutical interventions, which will be called community mitigation strategies in this document, often are the most readily available interventions to help slow the transmission of the virus in communities. Community mitigation is a set of actions that persons and communities can take to help slow the spread of respiratory virus infections.

Protecting the health and safety of health care workers is vital to the health of each of us.