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638 Preparing Workplaces for COVID-19
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Safe Work Practices

Safe work practices are types of administrative controls that include procedures for safe and proper work used to reduce the duration, frequency, or intensity of exposure to a hazard.

Image of an employee using hand sanitizer
If you can't wash your hands, use hand cleaners or wipes.

Examples of safe work practices for SARS-CoV-2 include:

  • Providing resources and a work environment that promotes personal hygiene. For example, provide tissues, no-touch trash cans, hand soap, alcohol-based hand rubs containing at least 60 percent alcohol, disinfectants, and disposable towels for workers to clean their work surfaces.
  • Requiring regular hand washing or use of alcohol-based hand rubs. Workers should always wash hands when they are visibly soiled and after removing any PPE. Post handwashing signs in restrooms.
  • Cover a sneeze or cough with a tissue or sleeve.

Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.

2-5. How much alcohol content should effective hand sanitizers contain?