Wash your hands after using the restroom, touching your face, eating, drinking, coughing, or sneezing, and at regular intervals throughout the day. Proper hand washing remains the best way to prevent transmission of the virus. Refresh ourselves on proper cough and sneeze hygieneĬover your nose or mouth with a tissue or your elbow - not your hand - and discard the tissue immediately after.This includes persons returning from high-risk countries. Please stay home for 14-days if you’ve had contact with a confirmed case or potentially infected person. The virus spreads easily from person to person. Stay home if we’ve had contact with a potentially infected person.Additionally, if you’ve visited any city - with or without confirmed cases - in the countries of China, South Korea, Italy, or Iran, please refrain from entering the workplace for 14 days. Please do not come into the workplace for 14 days if you’ve visited a city with a confirmed case of the virus, whether the trip was business-related or for personal travel.
Refrain from visiting the workplace after travel to an infected city or high-risk country.If you have a fever over 100 degrees, please stay home for 14 days to ensure you have not contracted the coronavirus. Because the coronavirus produces cold-like symptoms in 80% of infected individuals, it’s important to remain at home when ill regardless of how mild your symptoms are. If you experience cold, flu-like symptoms, or simply a running nose, please stay home. Since the virus is highly contagious and there’s currently no vaccine, we all need to: We understand the current outbreak is worrying, and we want to take a moment to share the ways we can all help keep the workplace safe, as well as the steps we’ll take as an organization if and when necessary. If you’re looking for trusted, up-to-date information, we recommend visiting the specific coronavirus websites of the CDC or the WHO. We’re closely monitoring the situation and know that misinformation and fear can spread more virulently than the virus itself, and we want to discourage false information from circulating. Subject: COVID-19: Keeping Our Workplace SafeĪs global concern about the current COVID-19 outbreak grows, we’re doing our best to keep everyone healthy and safe in the workplace while also minimizing the disruptions to our day-to-day operations. If you’re in HR, it’s up to your team to assuage employee fears while also taking precautions to protect the workplace - start by sending this email. Above all, your staff need to know you’re closely monitoring the outbreak and that you have their best interests at heart. Yet now is the time for resolute action, strong leadership, and clear communication. It’s hard to strike the right balance between informing staff of the facts and sharing the protective measures your business is taking without sowing fear or anxiety amongst an already tense workforce. Talking to your employees about the coronavirus is no easy feat.
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