Assessing risk for healthcare workers during the pandemic: don’t forget workplace safety committees or airborne transmission

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This article focuses on the importance of integrating "the workplace, the workforce and the individual" in risk assessments during a pandemic and how it warrants highlighting health and safety laws that require "suitable and sufficient" risk assessment, particularly when workers are involved. The authors also discuss aerosol generating procedures and the risk of exposure to workers from main sources of viral aerosols and the need for appropriate workplace risk assessments to help protect staff.

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