These simple rules will help you stay healthy at work.
1. Keep distance
A safe distance is about one and a half meters. When you walk fast, run, ride a bicycle, it can increase to 4–20 meters.
If you keep such a distance with others, the smallest droplets of saliva that will not reach you when talking, coughing, breathing will cause another – possibly infected – person. And you, in turn, do not share your own.
2. Try changing your work schedule
Your task is to make it possible to get to work and leave it before or after rush hour. In this case, you don’t have to jostle in crowded public transport or walk along crowded streets where it is difficult to maintain distance.
3. Use less public transport
If possible, get to the place of work by your car or bike or walk. Naturally, at a safe distance from others.
And try not to use elevators. Even if the cab comes empty, you don’t know who was riding it 10 seconds before you. The virus can still remain in the air.
4. Wear a mask in the workplace
Wear the mask all day. Do not touch the mask with your hands after putting it on. If you still touch, wash your hands with soap or treat with an antiseptic gel.
As soon as the mask becomes wet from breathing, replace it with a new one. Usually, you have to do this every two hours.
Only remove the mask by the mounts. In no case do not touch the part that is adjacent to the face. After this, the disposable medical mask should be immediately discarded, the reusable – sent to the wash.
5. Disinfect hands
The main transmission route is airborne. But there is a risk of contracting by the contact way: first, touch the surface on which the coronavirus sat, and then touch the mucous membrane of the nose, mouth, or eyes.
Therefore, it is extremely important to wash your hands regularly during a pandemic.
6. Avoid handshakes and friendly kisses
In a pandemic era, such contacts are a surefire way to share the virus with others or pick it up yourself.
7. More often ventilate the room
There is no data on how long the coronavirus can remain in the air. However, WHO still advises opening windows regularly.
WHO recommends ventilating workrooms every two hours. This will help purify polluted air and reduce viral load.
8. Normalize your sleep schedule
During the period of self-isolation, you may be used to going to bed deep after midnight and waking up closer to noon. But, returning to work, you need to rebuild your sleep again – so that you sleep at least 7-8 hours a day. It is important to maintain immunity.
9. Watch for food
Good nutrition is another important element of normal immunity. Snacking at work fast food is not worth it now.
Cook at home and take along lunches, which contain all the necessary elements of a healthy diet: vegetables, fruits, meat, dairy products, whole grain bread.
10. Drink enough fluids
The fluid is essential for the body to maintain immunity.
A volume of about 3.5 liters for men and 2.5 liters for women per day is considered sufficient. It also includes the liquid that you get from liquid foods and vegetables. Therefore, in order not to make a mistake, monitor your health.
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