Resources / COVID-19 Updates

COVID-19 Updates

AMHSA has compiled a variety of resources for our municipalities to use during this pandemic. 

Conference Board of Canada’s Working Through COVID-19 / Remote Work Support Survey (dated June 29, 2020)

IMPORTANT: Alberta Government - Water Stagnation Risks: Guidance for Building Owners and Operators (May 24, 2020)

Canadian Parks and Recreation Association has compiled a series of documents and are sharing them for anyone who wishes to use them which might help answer some questions with your municipality. Just click here.

Ask the Expert: Emergency Management & Business Continuity for Local Government

• Watch this webinar - designed specifically for elected officials and municipal administrators
• AEMA’s recommended/required training
• AUMA’s COVID-19 webpage including the downloads to the AEMA business continuity templates

Government / Health Authority Guidance

• Re-Launch Consideration for Businesses
• Video - Help Prevent the Spread Video by YourAlberta
• Alberta’s COVID-19 Non-Healthcare Workplace Guidance
• Alberta’s Guidance for Managers and Operators of Industrial Work Camps
• Alberta First Aid Training Guidelines
• Alberta Health Services website resource for up-to-date information and instructions
• Alberta Health Services hand hygiene link
• Alberta Government’s announcement on New Public Health Restrictions regarding public events
• Government of Canada’s Planning Ahead Information Sheet
• Government of Canada’s Fact Sheet on the symptoms of Coronavirus; how to care for someone with the virus; and information about Vulnerable Populations.
• Government of Canada’s travel health notices
• Government of Canada’s community-based measures to mitigate the spread of coronavirus

CCOHS Courses Available for Free / Fact Sheets

• Pandemic Awareness - How to Stay Healthy and Help Stop an Influenza Pandemic from Spreading (CCOHS)
• Pandemic Planning - Understand a Pandemic and What You Need to do to Prevent One (CCOHS)
• Pandemic Online Products and Resources available for free from CCOHS

Psychological Health & Safety

• Work 2.0 Reboot Webinar (June 18, 2020)
• How First Responders can reduce their Risk for Operational Stress Injuries
• Tool for Early Detection of Operational Stress Injury (by the Conference Board of Canada)
• How Employers and Employees Should Manage Self-Quarantines
• Conference Board of Canada Videos: Mental Health and COVID-19 - video
• AMHSA reminds you to utilize the services of your organization’s Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP) where possible
• Howatt HR - Support for Self-Isolation Good for Employees
• Howatt HR - Loneliness-How Employers and Employees Should Manage Self-Quarantines
• Webinar Series - every Tuesday! (Please note that the team is taking a break for the month of August) - Tactics for Maintaining Mental Fitness During the COVID-19 Pandemic presented by Howatt HR and sponsored by AUMA / AMHSA / CSSE - click here to register.
• Check out the new Tactics for Maintaining Mental Fitness During COVID-19 Pandemic microsite! You can register for our Tuesday webinars (10 am MST), view previous webinars, and download the presentation, a free poster and a mental fitness assessment! This is being brought to our members by AMHSA and its community partners, CSSE, Howatt HR and AUMA.

OHS and WCB Links

• Employer Fact Sheet - Understanding cause of workers injury or illness (September 16, 2020)
• WCB Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) (September 22, 2020)
• WCB COVID-19 cost relief Q&A (September, 2020)
• WCB Update (July 2020)
• WCB Employer Fact Sheet / Covid-19 (May 25, 2020)
• WCB Employer Fact Sheet / Personal Coverage (April 1, 2020)
• WCB Employer Fact Sheet / Virtual Assessments (April 23, 2020)
• OHS eNews (October, 2020)
• OHS eNews (August, 2020)
• OHS Resource Portal
• OHS June 2020 - Working in Summer eNews
• OHS June 26 eNews
• OHS June 12 eNews
• OHS May 29 eNews
• OHS May 22 eNews
• OHS May 15 eNews
• OHS May 8 eNews
• OHS Working From Home During a Pandemic
• OHS Respiratory Viruses and the Workplace
• OHS Development of a Code of Practice for Respiratory Protective Equipment
• Personal Coverage
• Virtual Assessments and Treatments
• WCB Employer Fact Sheet - COVID-19 at Work
• WCB - COVID-19 Employer Fact Sheet
• WCB - COVID-19 Worker Fact Sheet 
• WCB Worksight March 2020 special edition COVID-19 Update for Employers
• WCB information on telecommuting

Personal Protective Equipment Information

• World Health Organization’s interim guidance on PPEs for coronavirus disease

CCOHS Fact Sheets

• Coronavirus
• Pandemic Influenza (Flu)
• Good Hygiene Practices – Reducing the Spread of Infections and Viruses

Printable Posters

• Get the Upper Hand on Germs
• Prevent the Spread
• Hand-Wash Poster 
• COVID-19 and your mental health

Workplace Resources

• NEW - AMHSA Ergonomic Working from Home video
• Employment Standards Legislation Changes
• Take Safety Home Bulletin

AMHSA / Bennett Jones OHS Bulletins

• COVID-19 Compliance Strategies: Public Health Orders (April 14, 2020)
• COVID-19 Work Refusal Guidance (March 27, 2020) (If the link to the "Do you Know How to Refuse Dangerous Work" poster does not work, please click here).
• Hazard Assessment worksheet form
• AMHSA’s March 16, 2020 letter released to members, instructors, and staff.

Legal Considerations

• Privacy Considerations When COVID-19 Screening
• Privacy Considerations When COVID-19 Identified in the Workplace
• An Employer’s Guide to Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic

We will continue to provide you with the most current updates as we receive them.

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