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promote industrial hygiene, such
as conducting daily health checks,
finding locations with the highest
risk of exposure, making sure workers
are practicing social distancing and
are properly protected with masks,
and improving ventilation systems to
inhibit virus transmission.
Still, questions abound. Is COVID19 a reportable illness? If acquired
at work, the answer is yes. Should
employers test for COVID-19? That
raises Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
issues. Should companies revise how
they implement the Coronavirus
Relief Act or augment it with their
own leave policies? It's a difficult call
to make because, as Levetown said,

" With the hundreds of
thousands of American
machinists who touch
and breathe the mist
of MWFs in a shop
atmosphere, the
question of survivability
of COVID-19 in those
fluids deserves an
answer in 2021. "
John Howell,
president, GHS Resources

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" The question is, will another relief act
come out? "
All these cases demonstrate the
importance of having a pandemic plan
in place that details how to minimize
infections and respond to different
scenarios, including a COVID-19
diagnosis in the workplace. " An
operational shutdown is not going to
come from OSHA, " said Levetown. " A
shutdown is going to come from your
workforce being sick. The goal should
be to implement policies that reduce
the chance of infection, where viable. "

Customer Awareness
Howell maintains that keeping
COVID-19 practices in the forefront
of internal plant operations remains

important. But so are policies helping
customers do the same.
For instance, the survivability of the
coronavirus in aqueous metalworking
fluids (MWFs) has been an unknown.
Acknowledging an evolving situation
and its many uncertainties, the EPA
continually adds to its N List of effective
biocides and disinfectants. Manufacturers can share their understanding
of efficacious disinfectants to help
customers maintain their safety practices
as products move along the pipeline.
" As ILMA members, we could or
should be doing as good a job as we
can sharing information with our enduser customers so that they have all
the tools at our disposal that they can
use, " said Howell.



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