Our values, vision, and mission together with your well-being and the well-being of people who use our services continue to be our top priority during the current crisis.
This COVID-19 Pandemic Response site is updated weekly so that you have the latest resources available. You do not need to print or review every resource. The weekly checklist, updated each Thursday, lists what is required to be posted at your location. These required resources will have an asterisk “*” next to their title on the webpage.
This week, look for the following updates:
- Checklist updated for Supervisors and Health & Safety Representatives to complete for the week of June 5th to June 11th. This checklist is updated weekly and includes all of the required documents that were updated and need to be re-printed.
- COVID-19 Weekly Preparedness Checklist
- A clarification question has been added to the protocol to screen for previous positive COVID-19 test results within the last 14 days.
- COVID-19 Screening Protocol
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Public Health testing guidelines continue to evolve. We have now updated our testing guidelines in our Guidance on COVID-19 Exposure Charts to require employees who test positive with COVID-19 to be off work for a minimum of 14 days and have been 72 hours symptom-free (previously 48 hours). We have also updated the flowchart steps in light of easier access to testing and the results of surveillance tests
- Guidance on COVID-19 Exposure Charts
- Employee Exposure
- Exposure for People Supported
- Guidance on COVID-19 Exposure Charts
- The Enhanced Cleaning Poster has been updated with best practices from Public Health Ontario.
- Enhanced Cleaning Poster
- The PPE Frequently Asked Questions document was updated to include the requirement of eye protection (goggles/face shield) for employees administering active screening as well as guidance on how to clean them.
- PPE FAQ
Note on Cloth Mask Use: As temperatures rise with spring and summer, we understand that wearing cloth masks may be uncomfortable.
Surveillance Testing
Surveillance testing is now available in some communities across Ontario. Surveillance testing is happening to identify positive COVID-19 in people that are not yet showing symptoms. As an organization, we are cooperating with surveillance testing in some communities as requested by Public Health. Public Health may be coming to locations where you work to test both the people who live there and our employees. Being involved in surveillance testing will help us to better protect one another, including the people that use our services.
We’re looking for your daily living tips!
COVID-19 has become a part of our daily lives and it will likely be this way for a while. We’re interested in hearing some of the daily living tips you’ve collected along the way so we can begin to share resources that help to keep our daily living activities safe. For example, what do you do to keep safe while on a walk in your community? How are you handling your groceries? What sites, videos, or posters have you been inspired by? When we share our good ideas with others, we help to keep our whole community safe and well.
If you are a supervisor or health and safety representative, please create a list of some of these helpful tips or resources with the help of employees and people supported, and send them to covid-19@christian-horizons.org!