As COVID-19 infection numbers continue to rise in the U.S., more and more Central Ohio businesses are running into their first cases of suspected or confirmed COVID cases in the workplace. Managers and business owners are quickly realizing the immense challenges posed in responding to these situations. You have to act immediately to keep employees and customers safe, but you must do so in a way that protects the privacy of individuals while ensuring proper cleaning and sanitization takes place. You have to educate employees about their paid time off options, what forms to fill out, what return to work procedures they must follow, while also showing empathy for an employee who may be filled with anxiety, fear, and dread- or who may be really, really ill. All while managing your own fears and anxieties about COVID-19. You have to communicate truthfully but confidentially about the potential of exposure in the workplace and quell the fears of your workforce while also upholding performance expectations and meeting the business’ operational goals. It’s difficult to manage any emergency in your business, but this one has the potential to create massive disruption to your business and could quite literally be a matter of life or death. No pressure, right?

Our Massive Employer COVID-Response Guidebook was created to help make your COVID-response protocol easier to execute. It contains information regarding the CDC’s current return to work guidelines, guidance for investigating suspected infections in the workplace, conducting contact tracing, educating employees about their time off options, and communicating to employees and customers about potential COVID-19 cases in the workplace. This guidebook will take the guess work out of your protocol- you don’t need to remember each and every step that you need to execute while you’re in the middle of a high-stress, immediate-action-required emergency situation. Prepare your protocol in advance, follow the guide to execute in real time, and channel your energy into managing the anxieties and fears that a suspected COVID infection in the workplace will inevitably raise.