As stay-at-home and shelter-in-place restrictions lift in communities, companies that have been in continual operation providing essential services-such as water well contracting firms-throughout the COVID-19 pandemic must remain vigilant. Members of the community-and employees and their family members-are now mobile, making the need for health and hygiene best practices in the workplace greater than ever. Making sure those practices happen falls to those with human resources responsibilities at companies. To aid in those efforts, the American Industrial Hygiene Association has compiled best practices for construction-related industries to help minimize the risk of transmitting disease if an employee becomes ill or comes into contact with someone who is positive for COVID-19. If a positive COVID-19 case among the workforce is identified, quickly disinfect spaces the worker occupied and complete contact tracing for anyone who may have come in contact with the employee. Contact tracing and sharing of employee information should be done under the guidance of human resources due to privacy requirements of HIPAA or the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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