Groupe de travail SAT-COVID-19

Interim Recommendations for Transborder Transportation

This document presents the preventive measures to be applied by employers and workers in shops and stores in order to protect the health of employees and customers who frequent the trade. These measures apply when sustained community transmission has been confirmed by public health authorities.

This document presents the preventive measures to be applied by hotel workers to protect the health of employees and those who frequent the workplace (clients reception desk, building entrances and exits, housekeeping staff, laundry room staff, employees in contact with food, handling of merchandise, non-essential services, hotels which become temporary medical sites for covid-19 patients). These measures apply when sustained community transmission is confirmed by public health authorities…

This document presents the preventive measures to be applied by delivery workers (packages, restaurant delivery, groceries, etc.) in order to protect the health of employees and those who frequent the workplace. These measures apply when sustained community transmission has been confirmed by public health authorities.

This document presents the preventive measures to be applied by Police and Security Agencies in order to protect the health of employees and others in the workplace. These measures apply when sustained community transmission has been confirmed by public health authorities.

These recommendations aim to protect workers (movers) who have to enter homes, as well as clients, their relatives and the general population by reducing the risk of spreading the virus. Preventive measures must be implemented for all moves. Although risk of transmission by surfaces and objects exists, it is currently considered to be minor in the overall context. In the context of a move, the main risk for movers is to have close contact within two meters.

This information sheet replaces publication 2962: Reception of Temporary Foreign Workers to Support Agri-Food Activities

These measures apply when community transmission is confirmed by public health authorities. Based on current knowledge, it is known that COVID-19 can be transmitted by presymptomatic, symptomatic, and asymptomatic carriers of the disease. Preventive measures are therefore recommended at all times.

The prevention measures recommended by the…

The Canadian Quarantine Act provides exemptions from quarantine upon arrival in Canada for temporary foreign workers who are deemed by the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada to provide an essential service. It is the responsibility of the host company to verify that the temporary foreign workers it employs meet the exemption criteria. Workers may only be exempt from quarantine if they have no symptoms upon arrival. Despite this exemption, companies and the ETFWs they bring in as…

Psychosocial risk in the workplace are defined as factors related to work organization, management practices, working conditions and social relationships which increase the likelihood of adverse effects on the physical and psychological health of workers exposed (INSPQ, 2016). In the context of a pandemic that significantly affects the usual working conditions, many of these risks may be exacerbated. It is therefore recommended to: 1) Be attentive to the presence of these risk factors…

Any resumption of non-essential services must be carried out in such a way as to control the transmission of COVID-19. In fact, it is of paramount importance to avoid an important increase in the number of people infected, hospitalized or in intensive care, and of deaths. A number of conditions must be respected to ensure the control of COVID-19 in Québec.