COVID-19 Considerations: Preparedness & Response Planning

The emergency response health and safety plans were in place. Your team members were fully trained, prepped, and ready to go. Then COVID-19 arrived, and you were forced to quickly adjust. Now, you must implement effective engineering and administrative controls to protect your workers from unforeseen illnesses or injuries as well as COVID-19. It’s a daunting task, but it can be done.

To help businesses and organizations navigate with this new challenge, Paul Hart, CIH, CSP, CTEH’s Director of Health and Safety, recently teamed up with CLEAN Events for a webinar focused on “Preparedness and Response Considerations During the Coronavirus Pandemic.” Watch it here.

Any scientific or medical information included in this article is current as of the date of publication; however, public health knowledge of COVID-19 is rapidly developing. Readers are advised to monitor national, state and local public health agencies for current recommendations regarding any infectious disease.