!REMINDER! Recommended Guidelines | When a staff member tests positive for COVID-19

1

Show sympathy and stay in touch with the employee every couple of days, re-assuring the employee.

2

Ask employee which other employees or customers he/she had been in contact with in the past 14 days. Ask the employee to write a list of the names with contact details (telephone & email address and confirm date of contact).

3

Ask employee if he/she grants the employer permission to disclose the fact that the employee is infected.

4

If YES:

Notify the employee's manager that employee is infected with COVID-19 and is on leave;

Then inform co-workers that the employee is on leave.

5

If NO: Inform the employee's manager that the employee is on leave.

6

Report confirmed cases to:

• NICD at 0800 029 999 (Monday - Friday 08:00 - 16:00) OR
• Clinicians Hotline 082 883 9920 OR
• Whatsapp "Hi" to 060 012 3456

7

Obtain information that may be required by the NICD for tracing and tracking purposes. The real identity of the employee must be disclosed to the NICD

8

Notify all employees and customers that may have had *contact with the employee, that they may have been exposed to COVID-19 and may wish to see a healthcare provider. (Notify by telephone call & confirm via email confirmation (on template provided).

9

Do NOT refer to the employee by name or any manner that may identify the person (if the person does not wish to disclose their identity).

10

Send home the employees that have been in *contact with the employee:.

• Suggest that they get tested;
• Self-isolate or quarantine themselves for at least 14 days.

11

Arrange for a professional cleaning company to disinfect the workplace, immediate surrounding area and areas where the employee likely visited (toilets, lunchrooms, etc.).

12

After disinfecting the workplace, service provider must issue a certificate, stating the area that had been disinfected and what material was used to disinfect the place. The service provider must also leave a "Safety Data Sheet" for the chemicals that had been used in the process.

13

Self-isolated employees may return after 14 days, provided that they have not developed symptoms of the virus, namely: Coughing, sore throat, fever of higher than 37,5 degrees Celsius and no respiratory secretions or difficulties.