September 3rd, 2024 | 2 min. read
By Terry Layman
Over the past few months, we have been creating a strategic Return to Business framework to help our customers address the impact of COVID-19 and resume operations while protecting the ongoing health and safety of employees. As more businesses open up, utilizing a framework is crucial to return to the workplace in a safe and responsible way.
We have organized this framework into four pillars:
Workforce Planning: Evaluation and feasibility of response components tailored to the specific workforce; for example, the public sector, manufacturing, hospitality, and food service, among others.
Physical Environment: Evaluation of the physical workspace and identification of risks and opportunities to reduce the spread of infectious diseases.
Active Monitoring: Biomarker monitoring (temperature and other symptoms), including digital symptom monitoring, contact tracing, and virtual visits for those with elevated risk factors.
Prevention and Sustainability: Measures to maintain a safe work environment, ongoing monitoring and follow-up and, as available, vaccines, effective treatments, and ongoing best practice learnings.
During this process, it is important to be thoughtful about communications with your employees. Being up front and communicating the measures being taken to provide a safe work environment is crucial.
Below are five suggestions for all businesses to keep in mind when returning employees to the workplace:
When it comes to prevention and sustainability long-term, we stand ready to be a resource as new information comes to light and future vaccines and/or treatments are developed. We remain a consultative partner for our customers when navigating this transitional time.
Check out our Pandemic Response eBook and Return to Business Playbook to learn how we responded as a company and our recommendations for keeping employees safe when returning to the workplace.
Be sure to check out Part II of our Roadmap to Reopening series.