Public Health Workplace Protocols and Resources
Last updated: January 19, 2021
Continuity planning
- Continuity Checklist: On-Campus Research Spaces: Use this checklist to prepare your unit for extended building closures, employee attendance disruptions, possible outbreak scenarios, or other disruptions related to COVID-19. (Google Doc/Printable)
Returning to campus
- Safety Measures General Directive: Guidance on expectations for faculties, departments, and University planning groups to ensure a safe return to and operations on our campuses.
- Return to Campus Plan Template: Use this form to plan your return to campus, and to ensure that you and your staff are following public health requirements. (Google Doc/Printable)
- COVID-19 e-learning: This course is required for anyone returning to campus or already working on campus. The course outlines safety protocols to protect you, your colleagues, and your family from COVID-19.
Guidelines for shared spaces
Health, Safety and Environment has published the following guidelines for anyone who is working and learning in shared spaces on campus:
- Use of fabric/disposable, non-medical masks
- Computer labs
- Administrative spaces and drylabs
- Wet lab environments
- Shared offices and labs (graduate students)
- Shared work environments (work requiring close contact with coworkers)
- Cohorts and social gatherings
- Cubicles and barriers
Attendance records
To support AHS contact tracing efforts, managers and supervisors should also use the following tool to record attendance and contact information of their team members:
- Work Team Weekly Attendance Log Template: Document weekly attendance for faculty, staff and working grad students on campus. (Google Sheet)
Attendance logs include a privacy statement. Records must be kept for four weeks, or for one year if used for contact tracing. Records must be destroyed once these timeframes have elapsed.