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COVID-19 Interim Health & Safety Guidance Occupational Risk Pyramid for COVID-19 Medium \� Very High Exposure Risk(Activities not conducted by Roux) Very high exposure risk includes occupations/work activities with high potential for exposure to known or suspected sources of COVID-19 during specific medical, postmortem, or laboratory procedures. This can include but is not limited to: • Healthcare workers (e.g., doctors, nurses, dentists, paramedics, emergency medical technicians) performing aerosol-generating procedures (e.g., intubation, cough induction procedures, bronchoscopies, some dental procedures and exams, or invasive specimen collection)on known or suspected COVID-19 patients. • Healthcare or laboratory personnel collecting or handling specimens from known or suspected COVID-19 patients (e.g., manipulating cultures from known or suspected COVID-19 patients). High Exposure Risk(Activities not conducted by Roux) High exposure risk occupations/work activities include exposure to known or suspected COVID-19 positive individuals. This can include but not limited to: • Healthcare delivery and support staff(hospital staff who must enter patients' rooms) exposed to known or suspected COVID-19 patients. • Medical transport workers (ambulance vehicle operators) moving known or suspected COVID-19 patients in enclosed vehicles. • Mortuary workers involved in preparing bodies for burial or cremation of people known to have,or suspected of having, COVID-19 at the time of death. • Those who have frequent or sustained contact with coworkers, including under close working conditions indoors or in poorly ventilated spaces in various types of industrial, manufacturing, agriculture,construction, and other critical infrastructure workplaces. • Those who have frequent indoor or poorly ventilated contact with the general public, including workers in retail stores, grocery stores or supermarkets, pharmacies, transit and transportation operations, law enforcement and emergency response operations, restaurants, and bars. Medium Exposure Risk Medium exposure risk occupations/work activities include those that require frequent and/or close contact with (i.e., within 6 feet for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period)) people who may be infected with COVID-19, but who are not known or suspected to be COVID-19 positive. For most of our worksites, it is assumed there is on-going community transmission for COVID-19. Therefore, workers who work at sites and may have contact with the general public, other contractors, high-population-density work environments (i.e., greater than 10 people) fall within medium exposure risk group category. This can include, but is not limited to, sampling events that require two or more workers to collect and log samples in close contact or work occurring in an interior space with limited ventilation and several workers present. 01/2022 COVID-19 Interim Health and Safety Guidance I ROUX 13