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Educate staff on cough hygiene, including hand washing and other

personal matters.

Educate workers on measures to slow the spread of viral infection.

• Practice good hand hygiene and sneeze/cough hygiene.

• Clean your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds. Alcohol-based
hand sanitizer is a suitable alternative.

• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.
• Cover your nose and mouth when coughing and sneezing with a tissue

or a flexed elbow and dispose of used tissues in a closed bin.

• Avoid close contact with anyone with cold or flu-like symptoms.

When someone starts showing symptoms, such as cough or fever:

- It is the responsibility of each individual staff member to detect such

symptoms and take the appropriate action;

- In the event of a positive Covid19 Worker test the WHO guidelines suggest
that workplace should remain operational;

- encourage staff who are unwell or who have any symptoms of COVID-19

to work from home;

- focus on dealing with the positive Worker, identifying others that might have
been exposed;

- where personal protective equipment is kept, for use by colleagues

assisting the positive Worker;

- using gloves while dealing with the positive Worker;
- isolating the positive Worker from everyone else;

- focus on disinfecting the workspace and equipment the worker that tested

positive have used;

- WHO recommends that contacts be quarantined for 14 days from the last
point of exposure to the confirmed case;

- staff who have had close contact with the infected Worker should be asked

to stay at home for 14 days from the last time they had contact with the
confirmed case and practice physical distancing;

- staff who have not had close contact with the original confirmed case

should continue taking the usual precautions and attend work as usual;

- staff who have been in close contact with those who were in close contact
with positive Covid19 individual to remain at work for as long as those in self

isolation are not testing positive during the 14 days;

- communication to address concerns of remaining workers and support

those with positive result as well as those in self-isolation;
- continue to monitor all Workers closely for symptoms

- facility remains operational, closure of the workplace is not recommended.
- a procedure to allow staff to report illness by phone (or email) should be

established so that workers with early stages of COVID-19 can receive
reliable information and be quickly excluded from work environments.

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