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Social distancing is important for containing COVID-19 at work. The French Insitute for Health and Safety at wotk-INRS has made available MAVIMPLANT a tool for redesigning work spaces respecting social distancing rules in four sectors: 1) Hotels, cafes, restaurants, 2) Garages, 3) Logistics warehouses , 4) Bakeries, pastry shops, ice-cream saloons.

The European Resuscitation Council has made available an online course on safe resuscitation practices during COVID-19  The course in freely accessible and constantly updated.

You can also get the ERC COVID-19 guidelines here

COVID-19 Cochrane review of national clinical practice guidelines for key questions relating to the care of pregnant women and their babies. You will find recommendations on what to do if pregnant women is COVID-19 positive or symptomatic, at risk etc.

Stop the pandemic is an initiative of EU-OSHA to address the occupational health and safety challlenges linked to the current pandemic, offering guidance to limit the spread of the virus and for a safe and healthy return to work. It also includes videos and links to good practice from EU and International organizations and tips for working from home.  

COVID-19 Evidence Network (COVID-END) is a large group of international partners working in collaboration to facilitate easy access to the best available evidence on COVID-19. Their activities span the full gamut of COVID-19 issues, including traditional infection prevention and control but also how to manage impacts on mental health and family violence, health- and social-care systems, education, employment, financial protection, food safety and security, government services, housing, public safety and justice, recreation and transportation.

COVID-END’s near-term priorities are to continuously maintain a guide to COVID-19 evidence sources, to help coordinate and avoid duplication in seven domains (such as digitizing key steps in evidence synthesis and guideline development), and to develop scalable models for supporting evidence-informed decision-making about COVID-19.

The European Resuscitation Council has published recentlyT Resuscitation guidelines during COVID-19 pandemic. These guidelines will be subject to evolving knowledge and experience of COVID-19. As countries are at different stages of the pandemic, there may be some international variation in practice.

You can download a full interactive version or section by section. 

A Czech company has released a free of charge prevention guideline in the form of an interactive training software that explains virus spread prevention and contains tips and tests to inform workers and employers on how is and how to prevent COVID19 at work. 

The Catalan Health Service (CatSalut) has recently launched a WebApp to help people to evaluate their emotional state and to determine their needs. It includes self-help and professional resources availble in the community. The App is based on PSTD Coach App from the US Department of Veterans Affairs and is included in CatSalut  Emotional Health microsite

H-WORK is a HORIZON 2020 project that has the aim to effectively promote mental health, along with policy recommendations for employers, occupational health professionals and policy makers. ENWHP is one of the fourteen partners involved in the H-WORK project coordinated by Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna (Italy). As one of the partners @ENWHP invites you to visit its brand-new website and be attentive to its achievements.