Following large-scale COVID-19 testing of its employees over the summer and subsequent reports of positive results,
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According to the group, food businesses form part of a critical infrastructure industry that is vital to public health. As such, they have had to continue production throughout the course of the pandemic, seeking ways to protect their workers even before sufficient knowledge was available on how best to achieve this. Since more became known about the virus, and a hierarchy of controls was developed, the industry continued to be challenged by both the fragmented nature of the US healthcare system and the lack of coordination and competition between Government institutions and private entities for scarce resources, the group explained.
Armed with knowledge that many asymptomatic employees had contracted Covid, and having to maintain daily operations against a challenging backdrop,
COVID-19 safety panel
Additional experts on the five-member panel were Dr
As a result of the panel discussion, Tyson developed a comprehensive report, "Promoting Workplace Safety in the Era of COVID-19: Keeping Employees, Their Families and Communities Healthy and Safe." The report includes discussion of the current environment, challenges, and recommendations around the critical areas of testing and tracing, social distancing in the workplace, airflow and personal protective equipment, the promise and potential limitations of a vaccine, communications to and between workers about how to protect themselves, and new areas for research prompted by the gaps in the current knowledge.
In observing that the pandemic should not have come as a surprise, panel members also noted that it should not be expected that it can't or won't happen again. Additionally,
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