Changing CDC Guidelines Requires Employer Flexibility

Latest CDC Guidelines Have Employers Looking To Adapt

It’s a real challenge to keep up with the latest CDC guidelines and what information you need to gather from your construction jobsite visitors to ensure a safe work environment with real-time visibility to the who, what, when, where and why’s of site activity. Examples include:

• Changing or unclear health mandates
• Knowing who is vaccinated
• Different requirements at different locations
• Property owner requests
• When and how many from the subcontractor show up at the job site?

The variations can feel endless.

Most business software was developed by knowledge workers for knowledge workers. Yet Safe Site Check In (SSCI) is focused on making it easy for non-technical users to operate our site management and safety application. It was developed in the US using the agile, cloud, security, privacy, and open source technologies that it is very easy to our construction industry customers a comprehensive yet affordable solution that requires no training or software to setup.

With SSCI, field operations managers or admins can set up check-in sites in minutes, then customize and adapt to change needed information as requirements evolve such as vaccination status. SSCI can handle any type of user while also presenting supplemental documents, training and informational videos down to an individual site level. Our back-end data repository makes it easy to validate everyone who was on your site, when they arrived, and for how long, including employees, subcontractors, delivery agents, inspectors, and any and all visitors.

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With the latest SSCI app release, you can now not only create an active site and QR Code in under 60 seconds but customize the site check in experience per site, if need be. We’ll now show you several examples, including a hot topic: How to adapt site check-in for the fully or partially vaccinated.

 

Example 1 – Visitor types across all your sites

A general contractor has multiple sites across multiple states with different visitor types, each requiring different check in flows:

Visitor Type	Required Contact Info	Terms to Agree To	Badge Information
Employee	Name Phone Email Employee#	6’ distancing Wear a face mask Clean/Disinfect Tools	Welcome. Have a safe day!
Subcontractor	Name Phone Email Address Company from Pick List	Watch a Safety Training Video 6’ distancing Wear a face mask Clean/Disinfect Tools	Welcome. Have a safe day!
Delivery	Name Phone Email Company Items being delivered	Visit only drop off zones 6’ distancing Wear a face mask	Proceed through Gate A for delivery. Wait for on-site personnel before dropping off items.
Other	Name Phone Email Address City Company Host Contact Name	View and agree to Liability Waiver 6’ distancing Wear a face mask Clean/Disinfect Tools	Welcome. Wait for your Host to escort you.

Several sites do not have separate delivery locations, so they need to be set up to only ask the visitor to identify themselves as an employee, subcontractor or other. Safe Site Check In makes it easy to apply these visitor flows down to the site level.

 

Example 2 – Vaccination status

There are several approaches to handle visitors and their vaccination status. One approach is to use visitor types for each variation that has different check in flows:

Visitor Type	Terms to Agree To	Badge Information
Fully Vaccinated	Confirm you are fully vaccinated	Fully Vaccinated
Not Vaccinated	6’ distancing Wear a face mask Clean/Disinfect Tools	Not Vaccinated
Visitor who has not been vaccinated but has scheduled an appointment to receive the first dose	6’ distancing Wear a face mask Clean/Disinfect Tools	Not Vaccinated
Visitor who received second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or single dose of a Johnson & Johnson vaccine less than two weeks ago	6’ distancing Wear a face mask Clean/Disinfect Tools	Partially Vaccinated
Visitor who declines to answer if they have been vaccinated.	Confirm that you decline to indicate your vaccination status 6’ distancing Wear a face mask Clean/Disinfect Tools	Declined to Identify Vaccination Status

 

Incorporate Safe Site Check In into Your Visitor Check In Flow

Benefits of this approach:

• You can customize the entire check in flow: what questions to ask, what terms to agree to, even badge information for your on-site personnel to view the vaccination status in real-time (to ensure visitors not fully vaccinated are wearing masks, etc.)
• Visitor Event Reports will show everyone’s vaccination status connected to a SSCI check in records

Downside of this approach:

• The app stores data on the visitor’s vaccination status, which may be considered to be personal health information in some rare cases. Check with your HR or employment attorney if you are concerned.

 

Example 3 – Vaccination behavioral terms

Another approach to checking-in with “Vaccination Status” is the use of terms where the visitor “checks the box” to agree to certain behaviors, for example:

• I will wear a face mask if I have not been fully vaccinated for over 2 weeks
• I will obey 6-foot distancing protocol if I have not been fully vaccinated for over 2 weeks
• I will clean and disinfect my tools

The terms can also include an attached Vaccination Policy Terms document (pdf) that the user must view and agree to before being granted access to a site.

Benefits of this approach:

• You can address behaviors around vaccination without any risk of storing personal health information.

Downside of this approach:

• You can not customize other questions or Badges based on the visitor’s vaccination status, which may be requested by some local inspectors.

 

Safe Site Check In makes it easy to apply either approach — either one method for all sites or different methods as needed for certain locales.

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