OT -- Covid Temperature Check Question
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Designate a singular entrance with reception equipped with an infrared thermometer. Document body temp of all entrants upon entry & at exit.
Of all the superficial efforts to ward off covid, temperature checks by far are the most useless.
Pretty much whatever we are doing in the US, do the opposite.
Same as it has been for us since April. Employees are responsible to do a temperature check at home prior to coming to work each day.
We have received no notice of anything changing, and our company is pretty in step with everything the state does. I see nothing that says you cannot continue doing what we have been doing. It does not say it must be done on site, but we shall see.
Approximately how many employees?
You could be in full compliance by using an infrared forehead thermometer along with recording the following information on a piece of paper
- Name
- Date and Time
- Temperature
Not in PA (in MI), but we have employees self-certify and send an email every morning (we may have gone to an online form since I last went in).
Front Desk Security gets the list (updated a couple times in the am).
Front Desk Security gets the list (updated a couple times in the am).
Agreed. I work in an office of about 20 people in NJ. We have been taking temp checks every day since March. Three people have been diagnosed with COVID. None were caught by temp check. Whenever my temp is 2 degrees higher than normal, the manager says "oh, it's just warm in here today".
Do any of you trust the temp gun? Using a thermometer I'm typically around 98 (give or take .2 or so). Whenever I'm scanned it reads in the 96-97 range... I've had 95.7 once). Personally don't put my faith in them. Maybe it's a florida (southern state) thing... outside hot and sweaty and then inside in a/c the perspiring head cools, temperature reading thus inaccurate? Just a guess.
I am between 96.8 and 97.0 every day. In a sense that it stays within the same range, I am pretty comfortable with it. I know if it jumps to perhaps 99 I may have a fever.
To comply with HIPPA, the places I'm familiar with hire either a nurse or an off duty police person. It's easy money for them.
My entire family currently has COVID. Public temperature checks would have done nothing to find out we are positive. My wife had a mild grade fever for the first 4-5 days, more off than on, completely gone after taking a couple Advil. The three boys and I haven't had a fever at all. Two of the three boys had a stuffy nose for a couple days. The third showed no symptoms. I felt crappy for about a week, but feel fine now.
We use a temp gun to check temps. According to the instructions of ours, we had to calibrate it to the temp of a thermometer. Check temp with thermometer, check temp with temp gun, then adjust temp gun if there is a difference. It was fairly close initially, about .5 degrees off.
We use a temp gun to check temps. According to the instructions of ours, we had to calibrate it to the temp of a thermometer. Check temp with thermometer, check temp with temp gun, then adjust temp gun if there is a difference. It was fairly close initially, about .5 degrees off.
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I'm assuming it should be done everyday (in the workplace they might be doing 50-100 scans daily) and I doubt that is happening (speaking as a FL resident).
That is a great question and now that you mention it, I would also assume the same thing. I just went to find the box and instructions, but the wife said she threw them away. I'll go over to the pharmacy tomorrow and check out another one, as I'm also curious now.
We have an infrared therm that has a tablet mounted on a floor stand. Employees center the image of their Face on the screen and results are displayed within a few seconds.
Lol, reminds me of earlier this year when we issued all employees personal thermometers to use right before shift. A few of my smartasses asked if they needed to take temp oral or rectal. I told them it was their choice but if I were them I would be consistent about it.
Yes but what random, arbitrary, sweeping, and interruptive rule changes to life will occur tomorrow and the day after that, etc.?
We do nothing and will continue to do nothing Wolf can **** himself. Funny in the spring no one wore masks except in health care...guess where all the out breaks were...nursing homes....we don't wear masks either and we wont.
As many have said, the temperature gun is useless. It scans everyone at around 95-97 degrees. I work at a Level 1 trauma center and for the past 8 months, I’ve had my temp checked before entering the hospital. The other day I asked the person scanning foreheads, “how many people have you turned away due to temp?” She relied, “zero”.
I suffered with covid-19 for several weeks and my temp never went higher than 99.8° and I was checking it several times a day.
They are talking about HIPPA, which is what people who have no clue about anything talk about. HIPAA is what people with sense talk about. Also, it’s not a violation to have a manager take a temp. Just like it’s not a violation to ask people to wear a mask. Holy Brown Jesus. We are so oppressed. /s
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