Protecting Yourself and Your Frontline from Viruses 🌎
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Description: The best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to viruses. The next best way is to know about preventative actions you and your frontline can take every day to minimize the spread of viruses. This subject provides must-have information about preventative actions, like when and how to properly wash your hands, best practices for avoiding contact with viruses, and how to help stop the spread of viruses in your workplace.
Languages: English, French, Spanish (North America)
Media Editing: The video module(s) in this subject are editable under our Content Studio offering unless otherwise indicated. For more information about Content Studio, contact your CSM.
Description: The best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to viruses. The next best way is to know about preventative actions you and your frontline can take every day to minimize the spread of viruses. This subject provides must-have information about preventative actions, like when and how to properly wash your hands, best practices for avoiding contact with viruses, and how to help stop the spread of viruses in your workplace.
Languages: English, French, Spanish (North America)
Media Editing: The video module(s) in this subject are editable under our Content Studio offering unless otherwise indicated. For more information about Content Studio, contact your CSM.
Description: The best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to viruses. The next best way is to know about preventative actions you and your frontline can take every day to minimize the spread of viruses. This subject provides must-have information about preventative actions, like when and how to properly wash your hands, best practices for avoiding contact with viruses, and how to help stop the spread of viruses in your workplace.
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Protecting Yourself and Others from Infection
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There are many simple things you can do to take care of your health and protect others from viruses. This topic explores some best practices to follow, like practicing good coughing and sneezing etiquette, staying home when you are sick, disinfecting common surfaces, and changing regular greetings, like handshakes, to friendly nods or waves.
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Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands to help reduce the risk of accidentally infecting yourself.
Frequently wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds to kill viruses that may be on your hands. If soap and water aren’t available to you, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
Practice good coughing and sneezing etiquette by covering your mouth and nose with the inside of your elbow or by using a tissue. This will help reduce cough and sneeze droplets from spreading infections to others.
If you cough or sneeze into a tissue, dispose of it immediately into a waste bin and then wash your hands to protect others from viruses.
Keep a distance of at least six feet between yourself and anyone who is coughing or sneezing. Cough and sneeze droplets from their nose or mouth may contain viruses.
Consider changing your regular greetings, like handshakes, hugging, or kissing, to a friendly nod, bow, or wave. This will help protect you and others since viruses are spread through contact.
Regularly clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and common surfaces, like doorknobs. Viruses can live on these surfaces, so keeping them clean and disinfecting them regularly can help reduce the spread of infection.
If you feel sick, go home and stay home until you have recovered to avoid spreading any type of infection to others.
If you have a fever, cough, and are having trouble breathing, seek medical attention by calling your health care provider or regional health department. This will allow them to quickly direct you to the appropriate health care facility since they will have the most current information on the situation in your area.
