How to Manage in the Workplace

How to manage in the workplace

Ensure you have hand washing protocols in place
- Fact sheets to post in the work environment can be found here:
- Ensure employees understand their responsibility to report if they are feeling ill or of any activities that put them at risk of COVID-19.
- Communicate with your employees about HR policies around sick leave (if any).
- Ensure employees understand why they may need to self-isolate, support them in this decision and make sure they understand they will be sent home from work if they present with symptoms.
- Share the AHS Self-assessment tool with employees – https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/topics/Page16944.aspx
- If an employee has to self-isolate, employees and employers should work together to explore alternate working arrangements:
  - Working from home or remotely
  - Doing work that requires limited contact with other
  - If an alternate working arrangement is not possible, employees can use paid sick time, if available. (see below for changes to Paid Sick Leave in AB).
  - The Government of Canada has removed wait times on Employment Insurance which can be used for self-isolation or care leaves.
- Limit or restrict visitors to the business operation (not customers)
- Consider restrictions on business and personal travel
- Businesses that are receiving foreign workers should monitor advisories from the government departments responsible for the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP: https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/services/foreign-workers.html)
- Continue to follow recommendations provided around maintaining biosecurity and food safety standards.
- Businesses that provide housing for their workers will need to ensure their risk management plan considers large numbers of employees being quarantined or requiring health care.
- BC has a COVID-19 resource for employees in Spanish – https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/hlbc/files/documents/healthfeature/hf_040_coronavirus_covid-19-s.pdf