Assessing Risks and Adjusting Controls
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Description: Assessing Risks and Adjusting Controls
As COVID-19 continues to evolve, so should workplaces. Keep adjusting your control measures to match the level of risk.
Follow guidance from your local public health authority and stay informed about:
Factors that can affect risk
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How to know if the risk may be high
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Community spread
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Many reported local COVID-19:
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Dominant variant of the virus in the community
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A variant that can:
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Vulnerable population within workforce
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Workers who are:
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Adjust your control measures to match the level of risk.
- Using passive screening methods
- Ventilating and filtering indoor air
- Encouraging and practising good hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette
- Regularly cleaning and disinfecting high-touch objects and surfaces, plus before and after use
- Promoting remote work
- Actively screening individuals before allowing entry into the workplace
- Maximizing physical distancing between individuals
- Applying occupancy limits
- Setting up worker cohorts
- Requiring respirators or masks
- Requiring COVID-19 vaccination, when directed by public health authorities
For further information on COVID-19, refer to the Public Health Agency of Canada.