The first phase of deconfinement begins today, March 15.
What is the role of companies and organizations in helping to control the pandemic and ensure that we don’t go back?
Test regularly, every 14 days, all employees in occupational contexts where there is a higher risk of transmission at work.
This is the recommendation of Standard 019/20 of the Directorate-General for Health and the National Testing Strategy for COVID-19.
Sectors such as industry, construction and teaching are directly identified in this recommendation.
Massive and regular testing is based on the principle of prevention and follows what has already been adopted in other countries.
Instead of carrying out testing programs only when a case of Covid-19 is known within the organization, mass and regular testing carries out a periodic check that will allow swift action to be taken if a positive case is detected.
This could be the solution to prevent companies in various sectors from being forced to close their doors again, as well as creating an environment of greater security and peace of mind in contexts where face-to-face work is essential.
Both the public and private sectors are covered by this recommendation.
The aim is to make testing increasingly accessible to all organizations.
Occupational Health teams will play an essential role in organizing, administering and conducting testing processes every 14 days.
SEPRI – Medicina no Trabalho has created PTMPE.
It is a Massive and Periodic Testing Program in Companies and is already at the service of more than 50 organizations that requested the service in advance.
The fact that we already have an operational human resources structure, as well as infrastructures that allow us to carry out more than 1600 tests a day and direct links with renowned laboratories at national level, means that we are able to start several testing programs in the public and private sectors immediately and simultaneously.
Prevention is the key to not closing down again.
Alongside testing programs, maintaining Contingency Plans and ensuring that disinfection, mask-wearing and social distancing rules are complied with is essential to controlling the pandemic.
