A Guide to Maintaining Infection Disease Control in the Workplace

1/21/2021 (Permalink)

While work may look a lot different for some people amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, people returning to their workplace want to ensure it is a clean, safe place to be. 

There are several steps you can take to help maintain control over infectious diseases within your office. 

What is infectious disease control?

Very simply put, infectious disease prevention and control is a method of cleaning and minimizing the spread of contagious disease. 

Why is it important in the workplace? 

Ensuring that a workplace is safe and clean can contribute greatly to productivity and loyalty within you employees. Office spaces, especially smaller scaled, can be some of the easiest places for germs to spread. Everyone often touches the same high traffic touch points, visits the same break room, works in close corners, etc. and it is critical these places are kept clean to minimize the spread. 

The Plan

• Plan Accordingly. The first thing that you should do is to come up with an infection control plan. Involve a management team to work more closely with employees and enforce any established workplace policies and procedures for infection control.
• Remove Common-Use Items. Something as simple as removing common items like magazines, community snack baskets, pens, etc. can greatly help slow the spread of any germs.
• Encourage Basic Etiquette. Encourage employees to practice the basic etiquette of covering their mouths when they cough or sneeze. Provide boxes of tissues and disinfectant wipes in common rooms where they interact with more people. At the same time, discourage them from sharing personal items like cups, glasses, and cutleries where they can easily transfer their respiratory droplets to other people. Most importantly, encourage employees to stay home if they feel under the weather.
• Basic Sanitation. The way to prevent the spread of infection is to provide ways for your employees to rid themselves of germs by putting up clean handwashing facilities and sanitation stations equipped with alcohol or alcohol-based hand sanitizers.

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