If an employee is suspected or confirmed to have COVID-19 while at work, the employer should: 1. Isolate the employee and provide them a mask. Inform the national COVID-19 hotline and follow health officials' advice. 2. Arrange transportation for the employee to get medical examination or testing without placing others at risk. 3. Ensure any staff who had close contact with the infected person are referred for screening and testing. Clean areas where the infected person and close contacts worked as well as common areas.

1. C RONAVIRUS
COVID-19 Hotline 0800 029 999
Points to
remember
Suspected or confirmed case of
at work: what should you do?
If the confirmed or suspected case IS AT WORK
1. ISOLATE
Isolate the employee and issue
them with a FFP1 mask.
Inform the national COVID-19
hotline (0800 029 999)
and follow the advice of health
officials.
2. INFORM 3. TRANSPORT
Arrange for the worker to be trans-
ported in a manner that does not
place other workers or members of
the public at risk for a medical
examination or testing.
4. TEST
Ensure the staff member is
tested at a medical facility
for COVID-19.
7. IDENTIFY
Identify who at the
workplace had close contact with the
infected person. Refer those workers
who may be at risk for screening and
take any other apropriate measure to
prevent possible transmission; ensure
the worker is tested or referred to an
identified testing site.
Clean the area where person
was working and all the places
they have been. This may mean
evacuating those areas.
6. CLEAN5. INFORM
Inform the Department of Health
and the Department of Employ-
ment & Labour if an employee
tested positive.
If the emloyee is NOT AT WORK when he/she is diagnosed or suspected to have COVID-19,
then follow steps 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 above
There is not an automatic requirement to close down an entire workplace,
particularly if the person infected, or suspected to be infected, has only visited
parts of the workplace.
Workers assisting the person who has suspected or confirmed with COVID-19
should be provided with appropriate PPE. They should also follow hand hygiene
procedures.
Consider whether you are required to report the incident as per the COIDA &
incident reporting procedure.
Follow the advice of health officials at all times.
8. CLEAN
Clean the area where the close
contact people were working and all
common areas they have been. This
may mean evacuating those areas.
9. REVIEW
Review risk management
controls.