Return to Work: Health & Safety Issues Webinar

This webinar will focus on how small businesses can protect their workplaces, employees and customers against potential health and safety threats, including the prevention of the transmission of COVID-19 and other communicable diseases. The main part of the training will address key issues that small businesses must address before opening their business. Small businesses should develop a COVID-19 Return to Work plan that addresses a range of issues. These include:

• COVID-19 Exposure Control Plan
• Measures to Maintain Social Distancing
• Engineering Controls
• Work Practices
• Enhanced Cleaning and Disinfection
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Respiratory Protection
• Sick Leave, Symptom Screening, and Employee Health
• Exposures and Case Reporting
• Measures to Protect Employee Mental Health and Physical Well-Being

Presenter: Mitchel Rosen, Ph.D., Rutgers School of Public Health, Center for Public Health Workforce Development (CPHWD). The CPHWD has over forty years of experience administering occupational safety and health research, education, and training programs. It has significant experience developing training programs for disaster response and emergency preparedness activities. Dr. Rosen, director of the CPHWD, has over 30 years of experience in developing occupation safety and health and disaster preparedness programs.