How to prevent the epidemic when companies resume work? Nanshan CDC releases guidelines

Jingbao News (Reporter Yan Shanshan, Correspondent Wang Xin) In order to prevent and control the pneumonia epidemic caused by the new coronavirus infection and minimize the harm caused by the new coronavirus to public health, the Nanshan District Center for Disease Control and Prevention Recently, guidelines for the resumption of work and the prevention and control of the new coronavirus epidemic have been released in a timely manner to help companies in the jurisdiction resume production and work in an orderly manner. Next, Nanshan CDC will provide door-to-door services to enterprises, guiding them to prepare before resuming work, conducting disinfection inspections and guarantees during the resumption of work, and supervising epidemic prevention and control after the resumption of work. Through pre-resumption guidance and resumption of work guarantees, , supervise after the resumption of work, and escort the orderly resumption of work and production of enterprises in the jurisdiction. If enterprises have any questions about resuming work and production or epidemic prevention and control, they can call the Nanshan Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s 24-hour COVID-19 consultation hotline: 18813864030.

Summary of the guidelines

1. Epidemic prevention and control measures before enterprises resume work

(1) Establish an organization. Establish an epidemic prevention and control leading working group with the main person in charge of the enterprise as the first responsible person, and form a working mechanism for emergency response, information reporting, and safety precautions.

(2) Formulate a plan. Formulate an epidemic prevention and control work plan. Each prevention and control measure must be detailed and responsible for each person. The plan should also include an emergency response plan in the event of a suspected case.

(3) Personnel control. Record in detail the travel history, contact history and health status of each person who returns to work within 14 days, form an investigation ledger, and proactively report to the community; for those who come from or have been to key epidemic areas and return to the factory, Employees of the unit must check the time of their arrival in Shenzhen, ensure that they are quarantined and observed for 14 days and their body temperature is measured to be normal before they can work.

(4) Material reserves. Make a good reserve of various emergency and preventive supplies. The reserves of masks and other supplies need to meet daily needs after resumption of work.

(5) Implement isolation places. Arrange single rooms and relatively independent rooms as temporary isolation places for people returning to work from the epidemic area.

(6) Training and health education.

2. Epidemic prevention and control measures after the enterprise resumes work

(1) Report health status.

(2) Measure body temperature.

(3) Wear a mask.

(4) Carry out environmental sanitation, cleaning and disinfection. This includes strengthening ventilation; using qualified central air conditioners; conducting preventive disinfection; and carrying out patriotic health campaigns.

(5) Strengthen the management of internal employees within the enterprise. This includes reducing unnecessary large-scale meetings and keeping people at meetings more than 1 meter apart; it is not recommended to dine together in the canteen or arrange meals at off-peak hours; employees are encouraged to drive, walk or take shuttle buses; and strengthen humanistic care.

3. Response process for patients with fever

When an employee is found to have symptoms such as fever (body temperature ≥37.3°C), fatigue, dry cough, chest tightness and other symptoms, follow the following process:

Employees with symptoms should stop working immediately, wear masks and go to the nearest fever clinic; if employees with symptoms stay in employee dormitories, the company should arrange them in a reserved isolation place; track employee diagnosis results; and promptly report suspected cases Behavioral traces of sick employees, and isolation of people and objects in frequent contact; if an employee is diagnosed with a new coronavirus infection, employees who have been in contact with the patient should be immediately registered and screened, and cooperate with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to carry out epidemiological investigations and quarantine of close contacts. Epidemic prevention and control work such as observation and epidemic spot disinfection; when an infected person outside the enterprise comes into contact with an employee, the risk scope of employees within the enterprise will be delineated through record tracing.

IV. Setting up centralized isolation points for enterprises

Enterprises that have the conditions should set up employee isolation areas, and conduct 14 days of centralized isolation medical observation for employees who return to work in Shenzhen where the epidemic occurred, as well as those who need to be investigated. Employee inspection.

(1) Conditions for selecting centralized isolation medical observation points

1. It should be at a certain distance or relatively independent from corporate office areas and residential areas, and the entry and exit of personnel can be controlled.

2. The accommodation rooms in the observation point must have independent air-conditioning systems and sanitary facilities, and the number of rooms must satisfy individual isolation.

3. Have good communication facilities, Internet equipment and office facilities.

4. Have full-time stationed staff and stationed medical personnel if conditions permit. There are sufficient logistics service personnel, relevant sewage and medical waste treatment measures, and sufficient disinfection facilities.

(2) Who needs to be quarantined

1. People who have returned to Shenzhen from the place where the epidemic occurred, less than 14 days after arriving in Shenzhen, but have no fixed residence.

2. People who are not from the place where the epidemic occurred, but have respiratory symptoms such as fever and cough.

3. In other cases, the company will decide on its own who needs to be quarantined.

(3) Main work contents of centralized isolation medical observation points

1. Adopt various forms and methods to publicize the city’s policies and measures for the prevention and control of key infectious diseases and establish centralized isolation medical observation points Observe the significance of the point and obtain the cooperation and support of employees.

2. Establish and improve various rules and regulations for the registration, observation, disinfection, referral, and discharge of observation personnel at centralized isolation medical observation points, and provide health education on the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases to those under isolation and observation.

3. When conducting medical observation, the reason, duration, legal basis, precautions and disease-related knowledge of the medical observation should be informed in writing or orally.

4. Purchase and reserve disinfection drugs, disinfection equipment and staff protective equipment suitable for the area and disinfection frequency of the centralized isolation medical observation point, and provide personal protection for staff.

5. Detailed registration of the subject’s name, gender, age, occupation, relationship with infectious disease cases, contact time, contact method, whether the surrounding people are sick, residential address, physical health status, and contact information Wait for specific content.

6. Measure the body temperature of the subject under observation at least twice a day, morning and evening, and inquire and check their health status, focusing on checking whether they have fever, cough, chest tightness, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing and other subjective symptoms and signs.

7. Open windows for ventilation and disinfection of each observation room twice a day, maintain basic hygiene at the observation point, and urge those under observation to participate in physical exercise.

8. Persons under quarantine and observation who develop symptoms of acute respiratory infection such as fever, cough, shortness of breath, etc. must report to the district Center for Disease Control and Prevention in a timely manner and be sent to the city’s designated medical institution for diagnosis and treatment.

9. After an employee is diagnosed as a case of pneumonia infected by the new coronavirus, the local disease prevention and control department will conduct final disinfection of the room where he or she lives, the places he or she has visited, and the items they have come into contact with.