COVID-19 Information for the Workplace

Prioritizing Nonhealthcare Worksite Assessments

CDC developed guidance to assist state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments in making decisions about how to allocate limited resources to respond to worksites reporting COVID-19-related concerns, complaints, or clusters.

Update to Wildland Firefighter FAQs   

Updates to the Wildland Firefighter FAQs webpage address new concerns, clarify that testing recommendations are relevant to prevent infection and the spread of COVID-19 regardless of test result or exposures, and update the screening terminology to be consistent across the CDC website.

Two New NIOSH Science Blogs are Now Available on Respiratory Protection

• The Blog, Respiratory Protection vs. Source Control – What’s the Difference?, helps readers understand the difference between respiratory protection, which protects the wearer, and source control, which protects others.
• The Blog, Supplementing the Supply of N95s With Reusable Elastomeric Half Mask Respirators, discusses the use of reusable elastomeric half mask respirators (EHMRs) as a substitute for N95 respirators. This comes as organizations rely on other types of respiratory protection due to the high demand and limited supply of N95 respirators during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Heat Stress Fact Sheets
CDC published fact sheets for employees and employers on heat stress prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Industry-Related Fact Sheets

CDC recently published fact sheets for three additional groups that provide suggestions for preventing the spread of COVID-19

• Hotel, resort, and lodge employees and employers
• Paratransit operator employees and employers
• Beauty salon and barbershop employees and employers

• Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s main COVID-19 page.

• Coronavirus.gov
  Information for the public from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Task Force at the White House

• What the U.S. Government is Doing
  A catalog of all U.S. government activities related to coronavirus. Available in both English and Spanish