Letters To The Editor 4/16
An approach to consider for for safely and quickly getting our nation back to work!
My comments are based on my 52 years of experience in every aspect of the construction and manufacturing fields.
We have established some health and safety guidelines for all Americans to which we should abide.
The more commonly known are:
- Stay away from others as much as possible.
- Provide a minimal safe social distance of six feet.
- Keep as clean as possible as in effectively washing your hands as much as practical.
- Keep your clothing clean.
- Avoid coughing and sneezing as much as practical.
- When coughing or sneezing avoid others.
- When coughing or sneezing contain such actions to yourself such as using tissues or hankies to stifle such actions or at least containing them to your person such as your elbow or at least hand-covering.
If there are other protective procedures of which I am not aware, they should be added to this list.
The next step is to establish task forces in every business and industry to evaluate where and how the above guidelines can be put in place in EVERY aspect of the operation of that business operation.
The best people to set up these practices are the work forces themselves! Who better knows what can or not be done to continue the effective operation of those work processes? But those procedures can be modified to be adapted to be done in compliance with the health & safety guidelines listed above allowing productivity to resume without spreading the virus in the workplaces!
There are numerous examples of accommodations I could site, but for brevity’s consideration, I will leave them out and address them as requested.
ThanX! PEACE & Shalom,
Jan Mills, Sr.
Altoona, PA
