Download UNL’s Forward to Fall: Guiding Framework here: https://covid19.unl.edu/guiding-framework.
UNL's protocols are grounded in several guiding principles, two of which are:
• Use current health and safety information for all recommendations.
• Plan for multiple scenarios to be responsive to uncertain and changing conditions.
You are strongly encouraged to review the Guiding Framework in its entirety. Below are several key protocols worth re-emphasizing:
• All UNL faculty, staff, students, and visitors will consistently practice personal hygiene and prevention measures, including:
• Self-monitoring for symptoms and staying home when ill or after having been exposed to someone known or suspected of having COVID-19.
• Washing hands thoroughly and often.
• Refraining from touching the face, eyes, nose, and mouth.
• Practicing physical distancing by maintaining 6 feet of distance from others.
• Regularly cleaning and disinfecting surfaces.
• All UNL faculty, staff, students, and visitors (including contractors, service providers, and others) will wear facial coverings when indoors on the UNL campus, with a few exceptions, and in keeping with established campus policy, see covid19.unl.edu/face-covering-policy. Facial coverings will also be worn during UNL activities performed outdoors if safe physical distancing and gathering practices are not possible.
• All are encouraged to self-monitor for and report symptoms of COVID-19 by using the "1-Check COVID-19 Screening" app developed by the University of Nebraska Medical Center. 1-Check COVID-19 enables individuals to privately answer a series of questions and assess their risk of having COVID-19. Then the app issues a "low risk," "urgent risk," or "emergent risk" assessment and guides users toward possible next steps specific to their needs.
• All university activities, wherever they are performed (classrooms, labs, research facilities, extension offices, etc.), are expected to maintain physical distancing requirements of 6 feet between participants unless an exemption has been approved in advance.
• "Principles and Guidelines for Alternative Work Arrangements Due to COVID-19" covid19.unl.edu/alternative-work-arrangements were distributed on June 5, 2020. Supervisors are strongly encouraged to support the health and safety needs of their faculty, staff, and student workers through remote work, alternative work sites, flexible work schedules, job sharing, reduced schedules, and other options for the fall 2020 semester while meeting the unit's educational, research, and service missions.
• Meetings may continue to be conducted remotely (phone, Zoom, etc.).
• Non-essential travel should be minimized.
As part of the Forward to Fall Framework, each university unit must document COVID-19 prevention measures for their workplace. The Safety Committee is currently developing these measures to adhere to UNL guidelines, factor in staff responses from the recent Health & Safety Survey, and address CCFL's specific needs.
Look for these additional proactive and preventative measures for the CCFL office to be shared with all staff soon!