TRSA Updates Handout for Your Employees to Stay Safe

Updated guidance in English and Spanish versions for the industry’s employees on fundamentals of COVID-19 transmission and personal strategies for avoiding infection is now available in TRSA’s Coronavirus Resource Center.

Found on that webpage under the heading “For Your Employees,” the one-page (front and back) PDF COVID-19: What to Know and Do consists of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) explanations and advice, such as:

• Health agencies have determined that COVID-19 spreads mainly through respiratory droplets; picking them up from surfaces is a secondary factor.
• Masks help prevent this spread by reducing droplet spray when worn over your nose and mouth. They protect you some, too.
• Wear a mask when you are indoors with people you do not live with.
• People with COVID-19 may infect others more than six feet away in enclosed spaces with inadequate ventilation or if the infected person is breathing heavily (singing, exercising).
• The risk for severe illness with COVID-19 increases with age, with older adults at highest risk.
• Some medical conditions are more closely associated with high infection risk (such as cancer, obesity, smoking and Type 2 diabetes) than other conditions that still pose higher than normal risk, such as asthma or hypertension.
• The more people you interact with, the more closely you interact with them, and the longer the interaction, the higher the risk.
• If engaging in public activities, avoid others who are not wearing masks or ask others around you to wear masks.

The document details:

• Most common symptoms, emergency warning signs, what to do if you think you’re infected.
• How you know you need to be tested and what various test types measure.
• Ventilating homes when visitors arrive.
• Considerations for households in shared housing and with vulnerable individuals.
• Ways to control stress.