COVID-19 In Healthcare Environments – OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard
While many employees are still working from home, frontline healthcare workers have remained on the job during the pandemic, making them among those with the highest risk of COVID-19 infection. Consequently, as this course shows, many things have become different at their healthcare facility because of OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). Designed to address issues specific to protecting people in healthcare facilities from getting and spreading coronavirus, this course details each aspect of OSHA’s ETS. From learning about the COVID-19 Plan and required precautions to personal hygiene measures and signs and symptoms of the virus, employees complete this course with actionable knowledge on how to protect themselves and others from infection. Teach this course so all healthcare facility employees stay OSHA compliant and know how to recognize, treat, and prevent the spread of COVID-19 and its variants.