Assessing the Risk of Renewed Travel. 

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With businesses beginning to develop the next phase of their recovery policies, TAG has been receiving questions pertaining to recommendations around travel authorizations and policies in order to decrease the potential of employees “bringing back” COVID-19 to the workplace.  

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Some considerations to consider would involve conducting a risk assessment based on specific factors, including the conditions and case levels of the geographic location and facility/ies to which the person is traveling, the means of travel, the people with whom the traveler would be interacting, the jurisdiction’s practices and restrictions, etc. As with many things about COVID-19, due to the myriad of factors, each travel event must be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

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The decision to mandate quarantine for employees after travel can be determined on a case-by-case basis based on the assessment. As part of the assessment, companies may also begin to consider the necessity of travel and essential nature of the person traveling, even raising questions such as, “If a 14-day quarantine is needed, how will this impact the business?”.

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As much of TAG’s pre-COVID consultation work was conducted on-site at client facilities, we are also in the process of developing our own risk assessments and travel policies. We will be sharing much of this in this daily newsletter or the newly developed Return to Work (Recovery) Section of our subscription-based COVID-19 Toolkit. Give us a call for assistance or more information.