COVID-19: What Employees Need to Know

This course is designed to help workers prepare and respond to exposure and illness caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Course Overview

Coronavirus disease 2019 (or COVID-19) presents new challenges in the workplace to support the health and well-being of the workforce and keep businesses running smoothly. While employers and management are responsible for establishing plans and procedures, employees play a key role in keeping operations running and preventing exposures.

COVID-19: What Employees Need to Know is designed to help workers prepare and respond to exposure and illness caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Workers need to know the prevention and control measures they should utilize, as well as understand the rights they have under various laws and regulations. Being prepared, yet flexible enough to adapt to an ever-changing situation, is important to the wellbeing of all employees and their workplaces.

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To help our valued customers respond to the COVID-19 crisis, we're offering this course at no cost for a limited time through April 30, 2020.

After completing COVID-19: What Employees Need to Know, learners will be able to:

  • Explain ways to limit exposure to COVID-19 in the workplace
  • Identify critical information to communicate with your employer
  • Identify which regulations might impact your workplace rights under COVID-19
  • List ways your work environment may be impacted by the pandemic

Course Topics

  • Sick Policy
  • Housekeeping
  • Good Hygiene
  • Physical Separation
  • Social distancing for all employees
  • employee regulatory rights and responsibilities
  • Sick leave options
  • Workers' compensation
  • Key OSHA standards for COVID-19
  • Personal protective equipment
  • Special laws and additional regulations, like government stimulus, that may impact income
  • Events and Travel
  • Absenteeism
  • Supply Chain and Production Disruptions