Employees Calling About RTW Clearance
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1. Employee should do home quarantine for 7 days Employees calling and consult their physician about RTW clearance 2. Employee must call their own manager to call in Community/General Exposure OR sick as per their usual policy IP&C or Supervisor Confirmed Exposure 3. To return to work, employee must be fever-free without antipyretic for 3 days (72 hours) AND 1. Confirm that employee symptoms improveD AND finisheD 7-day home has finished 7-day home quarantine Community/General/ Travel/ quarantine AND fever-free Day Zero= First Day of Symptoms without antipyretics for 3 CDC Level 2/3 Country* COVID Permitted work on the 8th day days (72 hours) AND Exposure Employee must call the WHS hotline back symptoms have improved then for RTW clearance Employees who call-in 2. Employee should wear Community/General/ 4.Fill out RTW form to place employee off-duty with non-CLI surgical face mask during Unknown COVID Symptoms, but still entire shift while at work exposure (any not feeling well: going forward 3. If employee has been off- exposure that is NOT Please remember to stay duty for 8 or more calendar “Infection Prevention home if you don’t feel days, then email and Control (IP&C) well. Healthcare team confirmed) [email protected] Personnel must not work with doctor’s note simply sick. Follow usual steps stating that they sought for take sick day and care/treatment for COVID- contact their manager. Note: loss of smell/taste alone does If there are NO like symptoms ANY 4.Employee should update NOT constitute CLI per WHS No RTW form needed for symptoms following their manager COVID-19 Symptoms: guidelines Employees with NO non-CLI exposure or travel, 5. Fill out RTW Fever≥100F, Cough, criteria Symptoms don a surgical Dyspnea, Sore throat, facemask and self- Employees calling Support Care Time Myalgia, or Diarrhea 1. 7-day home quarantine and monitoring for fever before each shift and consult their physician. IP&C or Supervisor Confirmed Exposure: 2x a day 2. Fill out RTW form to place 1. An employee can use "Support Care 1. Continue to work AND employee off-duty Time" for a maximum of 4 work weeks for their wear surgical facemask IP&C Confirmed 3. To return to work: must be own COVID-19 related illness. Employees will throughout shifts from now Work Exposure fever-free for 72 hours AND not have to use their accrued sick time. on and self-monitoring for (communicated symptoms must improve AND 2. Employees who are physically unable to work fever before each shift and by their finished 7-day home due to a COVD 19 related illness can receive up twice a day. supervisor or by to 7 days of "Support Care Time" without quarantine. Employee must call 2. If they develop IPC team) providing a doctor's note. the WHS back for RTW symptoms during the next YES? 3. Contact the Workforce Health & Safety (WHS) clearance. 14 days, then they should Check if they are on Hotline if you are being cleared to return to stay home, inform their the MASTER work or if you have a confirmed workplace MAYBE? If employee believes it is confirmed, manager, and call WHS EXPOSURE LIST, exposure. but they are not on the master list: If hotline. Do NOT come to which is read-only 4. Beyond the first 7 days, you will be required their manager added them to the work even with mild to submit a doctor’s note to symptoms exposure list, then they will be [email protected] to continue receiving NO? contacted by WHS staff soon. If they do “Support Care Time.” not get contacted by WHD staff within 5. Employees who are sick beyond 4 consecutive 2 business days, then they should weeks should follow the normal leave of discuss their work-related exposure absence process. GO TO: directly with their own manager, who 6. Support Care Time sick pay excludes those Community/General/ can contact IP&C to start exposure who returned from travel to Level Two or Three Unknown COVID confirmation/investigation countries for non-work-related travel. exposure.