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You are here: Home / Safety and Loss Control / COVID-19 Brief From WorkSTEPS

COVID-19 Brief From WorkSTEPS

March 17, 2020 By //  by Dr. Ben Hoffman

Article originally published at https://www.worksteps.com/news-and-insights/covid-19-brief-from-worksteps

Data and Insights to Inform Your Company’s Pandemic Response

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In my career as a medical director for numerous corporations, I am often asked for best practices and recommendations on how to respond to medical situations that impact the workplace. These range from small-scale questions about individual employees to more complicated consultative services regarding the medical component of business continuity planning. Until this January, the “mother” of business continuity interruptions was terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The challenges associated with that event were based in fear and the unknown.

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The current COVID-19 pandemic creates additional complexity for employers beyond what we experienced in 2001. In response to employers’ need for useful information to support decision making around medical-related issues confronting them due to this pandemic, the medical staff at WorkSTEPS is mining the enormous amount of information we are all being bombarded with on a continuous basis, reviewing it and culling useful information to improve decision making.

While there are numerous very well crafted COVID -19 related websites that are available, we have tried to fill a void by creating something that uniquely applies to issues around occupational health. WorkSTEPS has always tried to develop innovative solutions to unique challenges in the past, and we value your input and feedback for this COVID-19 newsletter. Please let us know what you find useful, and if you have any pertinent information you’d like to share with us, please respond as we encourage and appreciate an open dialogue. After all, we’re all in this together.

Sincerely,

Dr. Ben Hoffman
Medical Director, WorkSTEPS
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Author: Dr. Ben Hoffman, Chief Medical Officer, WorkSTEPS. Dr. Hoffman is a highly seasoned physician executive with an extensive background in occupational and environmental health, clinical medicine and transportation safety. He has been employed by government agencies, non-profits and multinational corporations including GE, Waste Management and DuPont. Dr. Hoffman trained at Yale, Brown and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and is board certified in internal medicine, preventive medicine and environmental/occupational health. He has published widely and holds Professorships (Adjunct) at the University of Texas School of Public Health and Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition. He has been active on numerous committees and boards including Global Health at the National Academy of Sciences/IOM, IPIECA/OGP and former Chair, US DOT/FMCSA Medical Review Board.

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Filed Under: Safety and Loss Control Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic

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