Dear customers,
Due to the COVID-19 epidemic state, Occupational Health Service HEALTH&SAFETY recommends the following precautions for prevention the spread of the virus in your work environment. These precautions do not involve any significant expenses and will help in preventing the spread of any infections in your work environment and protect your customers, partners and employees. Employers must initiate these procedures immediately even if the COVID-19 is not confirmed for the communities they operate in. The precautions could also decrease the loss of working hours due to sickness and help slowing down the spread of the COVID-19.
I. Make yourself sure that the work spaces are clean and hygienic: 1. Surfaces (desks, tables etc.) and objects (telephones, keyboards etc.) must be regularly wiped out with a disinfectant. 2. The use of disinfecting tissues based on alcohol are also an effective precaution.
II. II. Encourage your employees, partners and customers to wash their hands with water and soap often and thoroughly.
1.Washing and disinfecting hands is the key for preventing infections. You must wash your hands often and abundantly with water and soap for at least 20 seconds. If there are no soap and water available you can use a disinfectant based on alcohol containing at least 60% alcohol. The virus enters the body through your eyes, nose and mouth so one must avoid touching them with dirty hands.
2.Place dispensers with hand washing detergent on visible points across the work space. Make sure that these dispensers are regularly filled up.
3. Hang informational boards with instructions for hand washing. Ask for such the local institute for social health and safety or look at : www.WHO.int 4. Make sure that the employees, the partners and the customers have and access to a place for handwashing with water and soap.
4.Make sure staff, contractors and customers have access to places where they can wash their hands with soap and water.
III. Encouraging the hygiene of respiratory system in the work environment.
1.Make sure that there are surgical masks available together with paper tissues for wiping the hands and the nose in case someone starts to cough. Also closed bins for the dirty tissues should be provided. Surgical facial masks help preventing further spread of infections from ones already infected to others around them.
2. Closed spaces should be regularly opened so that fresh air could enter.\ 3. When coughing one should cover one’s mouth and nose with a tissue or a sleeve. Surgical facial mask should be worn in such cases if available. Don’t forget to wash your hands thoroughly when you dispose used masks in the bin.
3.Покрийте устата и носа си с тъкан или ръкав (не с ръце), когато кашляте или кихате.; Ако имате достъп до хирургични маски за лице, използвайте такава и я изхвърлете след това безопасно. Не забравяйте да миете ръцете си след изхвърляне на маска.
IV. Avoid participating public events, all places with lots of people. Avoid contact with sick people, especially ones that cough.
V. If someone feels bad (high temperature, sore throat, runny nose, fatigue, respiratory problems, muscle pain or cramps) he or she must alarm their GP or relevant doctors for help. Self-diagnosis or self-healing must not be practiced in any case.
VI. Bear in mind when travelling (you or your employees).
1. Before travelling
1.1. Make sure that your organization and its employees have an up to date information about the locations where COVID-19 is spread. This information could be found at: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports/
1.2. Your company must assess the benefits and the risks from business travels according to the information published on this site.
1.3. Avoid sending employees that could be exposed on a higher risk than other due to specific circumstances (age, additional respiratory or cardiologic diseases, diabetes).
1.4. Think about providing travelling employees with small containers (not bigger than 100ml.) with disinfectant based on alcohol which will ensure regular disinfection of their hands.
2. During travelling:
2.1. Encourage employees to wash their hands regularly and stay at least a meter away from people that cough or sneeze.
2.2. Make sure that employees know what to do or who to call if they feel bad during the journey.
2.3. Make sure that your employees follow the instructions of local authorities in the area they are traveling. If local authorities do not permit travelling in certain places or destinations your employees must follow such instructions as well as all similar instructions for travelling, moving or participating public events.
3. After the journey
3.1. Employees that has been recently in a district where there is COVID-19 must carefully observe themselves for the symptoms of the disease 14 days upon coming back and get their temperature measured twice a day.
3.2. If they notice even the slightest cough or any increasing of their body temperature ( up to 37,30 C or more) they must stay at home isolated from the others. This means that they must avoid any close contact (up to 1 meter or less) to anyone else including family and relatives. The must also alarm their GP or local health services providing details for their last travels and symptoms.
For your evidence and knowledge of the disease, channels of spreading, specific symptoms and more, we apply more data which could be useful for your employees in case they would wish to get to know more.