The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has guidance for businesses and employers to plan for and respond to COVID-19. This guidance includes simple strategies that many employers already have in place, such as actively encouraging sick employees to stay home, providing information on whom to contact if employees become sick, and providing employees with access to soap, water, hand hygiene, and cleaning supplies.
Current evidence suggests that SARS-CoV-2 may remain viable for hours to days on surfaces made from a variety of materials. For construction workers specifically, potential exposures might occur by touching their nose, mouth, or eyes after touching surfaces contaminated with COVID-19 or handling items that others with COVID-19 have touched or handled. CDC suggests all construction workers take steps to prevent exposures and the spread of COVID-19: