Thread by @enmichael: Welcome to today's session of #HRwithEM, a weekly #TwitterSession #TweetChat to connect, learn and share career development tips and employe…

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Welcome to today's session of #HRwithEM, a weekly #TwitterSession #TweetChat to connect, learn and share career development tips and employee experience practices.

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Thank you for joining us this evening.

Please identify yourself and the location you are joining from, so we can acknowledge you properly.

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Feel free to tweet your question(s) at me with the hashtag #HRwithEM as the session is going on, and I would respond to all at the end of the session.

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Don’t forget to RETWEET all tweets for the benefit of your friends in order to extend this #KnowledgeSharingSession. You can also tag your friends to join this session.

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Today's #TwitterSession would focus on "#CoronaVirus: Guidelines for Business".

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The #CoronaVirus known as COVID-19 outbreak is a global health emergency that requires effective action by governments, individuals and businesses.

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All businesses have a key role to play in minimising the likelihood of transmission.

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Early, bold and effective action will reduce short-term risks to employees and long-term costs to businesses and the economy.

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Prevention is both easier and more cost-effective for an exponentially growing process.

While specific actions each business should take will depend on location,...

@iccwbo @necsi @NCDCgov

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...the nature of the workplace and the potential disruptiveness to operations, @iccwbo encourages all businesses to take appropriate
actions to get ahead of the outbreak.

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Right now, businesses should be:

a. developing business continuity plans (where there are no reported
cases);

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b. readying business continuity plans (where there have been sporadic cases of imported or locally acquired cases); or

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c. implementing business continuity plans (where there is local transmission or a large number of cases).

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To assist the development of such plans, @iccwbo has partnered with the @necsi to develop a summary of actions businesses can take to reduce risks to...

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...everyone associated with a business (employees, customers and partners) and the business itself.

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1. General Plans

1a. Promote understanding among employees and their families of #coronavirus transmission
and prevention by directing them to the @WHO and national health authority websites.

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1b. Develop customised organisation policies to reduce transmission and arrange for meticulous implementation.

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1c. Ensure employees know that when they have even mild symptoms they should not be at work locations or in-person meetings and they will not be penalised for sick days.

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1d. Set up a reporting system for any cases.

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1e. Keep a clear log of each day’s contacts. If an infection is identified, the business can alert all possibly exposed to minimise risk and mitigate harm to employees and customers.

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1f. Ensure employees have appropriate health insurance policies so that they will not be afraid to seek out care when they have symptoms, even mild ones.

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1g. Engage with local medical facilities to coordinate early rapid testing of employees for #CoronaVirus.

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1h. Prepare essentials (hand sanitiser, alcohol, masks, Infrared contactless forehead thermometers) in case the conditions deteriorate and employees don’t have access to those items.

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2. Meetings, Travel and Visitors Plan

2a. Replace in-person meetings with virtual.

2b. Arrange for employees to work from home where possible.

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2c. Restrict travel to higher risk zones. Travel to very high risk zones should be strongly discouraged or banned.

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2d. Set a clear policy prohibiting all work-related travel deemed non-essential.

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2e. Engage with local medical facilities to coordinate early rapid testing of employees for #CoronaVirus.

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2f. Limit visitors and set policies to inquire and rule out visitors based upon their residential zone status and business coronavirus prevention policies. Check visitor symptoms upon arrival.

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3. Workplaces Plan

3a. Promote flexible work hours, staggered hours, and shifts to decrease density in the workplace.

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3b. Employers should ask employees returning from places with confirmed cases, or having uncertain contacts during travel, to self-quarantine for 14 days before coming to the office.

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3b. (contd.) Employers should keep close track of their health condition, and report and seek medical care.

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3c. Employers should have thermometers on hand. If an employee has a fever (37.3 Celcius or 99.1 Fahrenheit or above), they should immediately be given a mask and sent home.

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3d. Employees whose work involves unavoidable proximity with others should be given masks.

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3e. Reroute traffic into the building to promote hand washing on entry and place hand sanitiser in multiple locations to facilitate use.

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3f. Arrange employees to avoid clustering in elevators. Elevators should not take more than half of their carrying capacity.

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3g. Working space should be rearranged to ensure maximum distance between employees.

3h. Disinfect public areas, locales with heavy traffic and surfaces frequently touched.

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3i. If A/C must be used, disable re-circulation of internal air. Weekly clean/disinfect/replace key components and filers.

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3j. Scatter dining, keep 3 feet of distance while dining and avoid sitting face-to-face. Separate utensils and frequently disinfect.

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3k. Cafeteria staff must be frequently checked for health with a daily temperature check. 1/2

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3k. On entry, staff should be asked five questions about their health (fever, cough, shortness of breath, diarrhoea, vomiting). 2/2

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3l. In highly affected areas, promote meal delivery rather than going out for meals. 1/2

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3l. Arrange help for calls for food delivery and a location for contactless drop off and pickup of food in a hygienic area without lines. 2/2

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3m. Consider how employees get to work locations and develop recommendations including avoiding public transportation, or... 1/2

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3m. ...careful hygiene including avoiding touching surfaces, hand washing and wearing masks in areas of increased risk. 2/2

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3n. The responsibilities of ensuring workplace policies on #CoronaVirus safety should be clear and accountable, with designated points of contact.

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4. Retail and Hospitality - consider

4a. High contact industries may be severely disrupted. Early and effective interventions may mitigate but will not eliminate the risk unless they are society-wide.

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4b. The importance of making sure individuals with even mild cold symptoms from work involving contact with others cannot be overemphasised.

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4c. Keep a clear log of each day’s contacts. So that if an infection is identified the business can alarm all possibly exposed to minimise risk and mitigate harm to employees and customers.

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4d. Non-contact methods for doing business should be developed and implemented including:

i. walk up window pick up and drop off service (including adequate spacing in lines), 1/2

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4d. ii. drive by service, and

iii. no-contact home delivery. 2/2

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We have come to the end of today's #HRwithEM #TwitterSession and I hope that you have learned a great deal on the plans to put in place in order to address this dreaded #CoronaVirusPandemic.

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I would like to specially thank Chen Shen and Yaneer Bar-Yam for painstakingly putting this detailed material together on behalf of @necsi.

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I look forward to having you again next week, same day, same time!

Thank you for your participation and valuable contribution in making this #TwitterSession a success.

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If you have any other topic(s) you would like me to treat, please forward them to [email protected], and join me every Saturday at 4pm WAT to connect, learn and share.

Have a beautiful #SocialDistancing weekend!

END!!

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