Employee tests positive for COVID-19
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:05 pm
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The following is a link from the CDC website. It’s my understanding that if a positive test is found then the work area and perhaps the entire facility needs to be cleaned and sanitized.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nc ... ponse.html
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I think you should inform other employees with whom this individual had close contact (specifics obviously depend on the facts). But, I would not reveal a name unless he/she gives express release -- and I'm not suggesting this; I don't think you need to say a name.
I also think that you should clean -- https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nc ... index.html
As for quarantine, right now, the safest course may be, at the very least, ask the other employees (with whom there was close contact) to monitor and/or whether they want to self-quarantine. If it's a smaller group, you might even insist on it.
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The following is a link from the CDC website. It’s my understanding that if a positive test is found then the work area and perhaps the entire facility needs to be cleaned and sanitized.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nc ... ponse.html
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I think you should inform other employees with whom this individual had close contact (specifics obviously depend on the facts). But, I would not reveal a name unless he/she gives express release -- and I'm not suggesting this; I don't think you need to say a name.
I also think that you should clean -- https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nc ... index.html
As for quarantine, right now, the safest course may be, at the very least, ask the other employees (with whom there was close contact) to monitor and/or whether they want to self-quarantine. If it's a smaller group, you might even insist on it.