With the August 3, 2021 announcement of further changes to Public
Health Orders, we are moving closer to a
"Post-Pandemic" Manitoba. Under these new Orders, which will come into force on
August 7, 2021, remote work is no longer required or even
necessarily recommended by public health and workplaces are
encouraged to transition from COVID-19 safety plans to a general
Communicable Disease Prevention Plan. Such a plan should
focus on basic risk reduction principles to reduce the risk of
workplace transmission of COVID-19 and other respiratory
illnesses.
What is communicable disease prevention?
A communicable disease is any illness that starts from an
infectious agent and can be transmitted among people. Therefore,
communicable disease prevention requires employers to assess the
risks for communicable disease transmission that may present
themselves in the workplace, create a plan that incorporates the
appropriate measures to prevent the spread of the disease,
