Chongqing - February 3 is the first day of returning to work after the Spring Festival, but we are still in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic. So, to keep the 2019-nCoV away, what precautions need to be taken? What can we do to ensure work and health at the same time? iChongqing collects and sorts out several measures and precautions for you:

Comprehensive investigation to ensure a healthy return to work

• Comprehensively investigate the health status and activity of the personnel of the departments and companies, grasp information accurately, and establish a standing book.
• Persons who are still in the epidemic-stricken areas must abide by the epidemic prevention and control measures adopted by the local government and must not leave without authorization.

• If you return to Chongqing from other provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities other than Chongqing, or if there is already a confirmed case in your residential area, or if there are other cases that may be infected by the 2019-nCoV, you should stay at home or be quarantined and observed for 14 days as required.
• If you or someone close to you has symptoms such as fever and cough, go to the nearest designated medical institution in time. Return to work after dismissing the medical observation.
• Strengthen the dynamic investigation of departments and companies and report any problems related to the epidemic in a timely manner.

Regulate transportation and trips people are taking to guarantee public health

• Strictly check the entrance of the work area of departments and companies, minimize official/business visits, and ensure the access-control of visiting vehicles and personnel.
• Vehicles entering the work area must be parked for inspection. Personnel must wear masks and take body temperature testing. Those whose temperature exceeds 37.2 ℃ must not enter, and go to the hospital for treatment if necessary.

• Masks must be worn on the buses for drivers and passengers. Drivers should wear gloves as much as possible, and wash their hands after disinfection. Disinfect vehicle seats and door handles regularly.
• Employees and staff should try not to use public transportation for work as much as possible. If you really need to take public transportation, you must wear a mask all the way, and try to avoid touching any item with your hands.

Optimize the way of working to reduce the infection chances of contact

• Extensively promote the online office, advocating work through online platforms, network clients, and mobile APPs.
• Reduce paper materials, newspapers, and magazines, and promote paperless office. Wash your hands before and after transferring the paper material, and wear a mask during the material transfer.
• Try to adopt a decentralized working method. When working with multiple people, wear a mask. Keep a distance of more than one meter between people. Both sides must receive masks when receiving outsiders.
• Don't walk around in the work area, and minimize the number of visitors in the workplace.
• Periodically disinfect facilities such as desks and chairs, computer equipment, printing and copying equipment, landline telephones, and more.
• Keep the working environment clean and ventilated, and try to open the windows no less than three times a day, no less than 20 to 30 minutes each time.

Simplify meetings and activities to minimize turnover

• The on-site centralized meetings and collective events should be significantly simplified and reduced. Meanwhile, try to use the telephone, video, WeChat, and QQ groups to communicate and research as much as possible.
• Try to control the number and duration of participants for necessary conference activities and minimize the gathering of people.

• Before entering the venue, you must measure your body temperature, wash your hands and disinfect it, and wear a mask. Participants should bring their water cups as much as possible.
• Participants should keep proper intervals and pay attention to opening windows and ventilating the venue.
• Disinfect the venue, furniture, tea set, microphone, and more, after meeting.
• Try to void crowds on the bus and keep a mask on all the way if there is a group activity.

Implement scattered meals to reduce opportunities for spittle infections

• Employees and staff should bring their tableware, and take meals at different times and avoid gathering meals.
• Wash your hands before meals, wear masks while lining up and taking meals, and keep a proper distance from each other to avoid people gathering.
• Set up a tableware cleaning place in the work area, equipped with necessary supplies and facilities such as hand sanitizer, detergent, kitchen recycling bins, and guarantee recycling and disinfection in time.
• The canteen of departments and companies should keep the air unblocked, the back kitchen operation room should be clean and dry, the ventilation should be no less than three times a day, the restaurant should be disinfected no less than once a day, and the tableware and cooking supplies should be disinfected at high temperature.
• Meat and eggs must be thoroughly cooked to avoid raw food. Cutlery for raw and cooked food must strictly be separated to prevent mixing.
• Strive to healthy and safe eating habits; it is recommended to eat light and palatable meals.

Guarantee the logistics to serve to ensure the regular operation

• Implement food procurement safety measures and purchase food from regular and formal sources.

• Canteen purchasers or suppliers must wear masks to avoid contact with animals or direct contact with meat and poultry raw materials.
• Logistic procurement must wear masks to avoid crowded people and keep a safe distance from contact with people.
• Strengthen the management of catering, security, cleaning, driving, and other services and personnel. Service personnel must wear masks when working, wear gloves when necessary, and keep a safe distance from people. Wash hands and disinfect in time after work.

Focus on daily protection to strengthening epidemic control

• Actively publicize and learn about epidemic protection knowledge, popularize knowledge of 2019-nCoV prevention and control, enhance scientific prevention awareness, and improve prevention and control capabilities.
• Regularly disinfect restaurants, cafeterias, conference rooms, and other public areas such as halls, corridors, stairs, bathrooms, and more. Pay particular attention to disinfecting key parts such as door handles, keyboards, and mice.
• It is recommended to take more stairs and fewer elevators, and wear masks when taking elevators. Pay attention to the disinfection of elevators, especially buttons. The elevator room should be equipped with disposable paper towels or disinfectant, and it is recommended to use paper towels to touch the keys.

• Use soap or hand sanitizer, wash your hands frequently with running water, and wipe your hands with disposable paper towels or clean towels.
• Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or towel when you cough or sneeze. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth with your hands.
• Strengthen the awareness of family prevention and control. Prevent and eliminate all kinds of family gathering activities and various group activities.
• Reasonably arrange work and rest time, exercise appropriately and moderately, and strengthen physical fitness and immunity.
• Wear the mask correctly, put the discarded mask in the designated trash bin, and disinfect the trash bin with 75% alcohol or chlorine-containing

Get medical advice promptly to prevent the spread of the epidemic

• If you have symptoms of an acute respiratory infection such as fever, cough, shortness of breath, and more, you must go to the nearest medical institution for treatment in time.
• You should inform the hospital in advance, call an ambulance or use a special vehicle to transport patients, and avoid taking public transportation. Do personal protection and vehicle disinfection for transport patients.
• People who have lived or worked with a confirmed or highly suspected case should seek medical advice urgently as soon as they have symptoms.
• Patients must wear masks during the whole medical treatment and stay away from other people as much as possible.
• When you seek medical treatment, you must truthfully explain the symptoms and the process of medical treatment, and inform the medical staff of the recent residence history, contact history of 2019-nCoV patients or suspected patients, and animal contact history.

Strengthen prevention and control 

• The management of departments and companies, especially the main person in charge, should fulfill their own prevention and control responsibilities, organize the employees and staff to implement prevention and control measures, and prevent the import, spread, and spread of the epidemic.
• Give full play to the demonstration role of the fighting against the 2019-nCoV, guide employees and staff to strengthen confidence, prevention, and control.

• Consciously resist and refute unscientific and uncivilized speech on the Internet, do not forward public opinion information from unknown sources, do not make, believe, or spread rumors.
• Arrange shifts and compensatory leave for employees and staff who have not been on vacation due to epidemic prevention and control, and ensure the implementation of wages and salaries for unsettled holidays following relevant policies.

Q&A about working after the Spring Festival holiday during the epidemic

• Is it a work-related injury that gets the infection during working?

       --Yes. According to related laws, it is a work-related injury when an employee gets the infection of 2019-nCoV during working. Also, he/she can enjoy the work injury insurance benefits.

• If an employee gets the infection of 2019-nCoV and enters the isolation ward, can a company fire him/her?

      --No. If a confirmed case or suspected case is in the isolation ward, the company, he/she, belongs to cannot fire him/her but should give him/her the necessary treatment period. Also, the company should pay wages during the treatment period according to the labor contract.

• Can employees get salaries during the business downtime?

       --Yes. If an enterprise suspends or stops production within a wage payment period, the enterprise shall pay wages following the standards stipulated in the labor contract.

          For more than one wage payment period, if the employee provides normal labor, the wages must not be lower than the local minimum wage standard. If employees do not offer normal labor, the enterprise shall pay living expenses. Chongqing's living standards: Implemented according to 70% of the minimum monthly wage standard of employees fulfilled in their labor contracts.