Responding to the COVID‐19 pandemic: The role of occupational health services in a tertiary hospital in Singapore. Issue 1 (15th October 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hwang, Jeff; Yong, Elsie; Cheong, Karen; Ling, Zheng Jye; Goh, Lay Hoon; Lim, Fong Seng; Loh, Victor; Bagdasarian, Natasha; Somani, Jyoti; Archuleta, Sophia; Sng, Judy; Lim, See Ming
• Is Part Of: Journal of occupational health. Volume 62:Issue 1(2020)
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• Publication Date: 2020-10-15
• Subjects: business continuity plan -- COVID‐19 -- hospital -- infection control -- occupational health; Medicine, Industrial -- Periodicals; Industrial hygiene -- Periodicals; Medicine, Industrial; Occupational Diseases; Occupational Exposure; Occupational Health; Occupational Medicine; Periodicals; Periodical; Electronic journals; 613.62
• DOI: 10.1002/1348-9585.12172
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1341-9145

Abstract

Abstract: With coronavirus disease 2019 declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, occupational health services in a tertiary hospital in Singapore stepped up via a three‐pronged approach, namely, protection of individual staff, protection of staff workforce, and prevention of nosocomial spread so as to support business continuity plans. Despite the multiple new challenges brought by the COVID‐19 pandemic, the hospital's occupational health services were able to adapt and keep all employees and patients safe with strong support from senior management and close collaboration with various departments.