Very High Exposure Risk: This category covers jobs with a high potential for exposure to known or suspected sources of COVID-19, such as medical providers, medical transport workers, and certain mortuary workers who are treating, transporting, or preparing people who are known or suspected sources of COVID-19.

Recommended Action: These recommendations generally apply in health care and mortuary settings. Most workers in these categories likely need to wear PPE, including gloves, a gown, a face shield or goggles, and a face mask or respirator.

Employees who may fall into this category:

• Doctors
• Surgeons

(No district activities should have any Palomar College employees placed into this category).

Very High Exposure Risk
	Medical Gown	Protects clothing and skin from direct contact with chemicals, biohazards, and other materials.
	N95 Respirator	Respirators protect respiratory tract from airborne infectious agents.
	Goggles/Safety Glasses	Protects eyes from debris, fluids and biohazards.
	Face Shield	Protects face, mouth, nose and eyes
	Nitrile Gloves	General resistance against chemicals and other biohazards.

High Exposure Risk: This category covers jobs with a high potential for exposure to known or suspected sources of COVID-19, such as medical providers, medical transport workers, and certain mortuary workers who are treating, transporting, or preparing people who are known or suspected sources of COVID-19.

Recommended Action: These recommendations generally apply in health care and mortuary settings. Most workers in these categories likely need to wear PPE, including gloves, a gown, a face shield or goggles, and a face mask or respirator.

High Exposure Risk
	Medical Gown	Protects clothing and skin from direct contact with chemicals, biohazards and other materials
	N95 Respirator or Face Mask	Respirators protect respiratory tract from airborne infectious agents. Protects mouth and nose.
	Goggles or Safety Glasses or Face Shield	Protects eyes from debris, fluids and biohazards.
	Nitrile Gloves	General resistance against chemicals and other biohazards.

Medium Exposure Risk: This category of jobs includes those that require frequent and/or close contact with (i.e., within six feet of) other people who may be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, but are not known or suspected COVID-19 patients.

Recommended Action: Employers should provide employees with general guidance and commonsense methods to reduce exposure and monitor recommendations by the CDC for updates. For engineering controls, consider installing physical barriers, such as clear plastic sneeze guards, where feasible. For administrative controls, consider offering to ill employees and customers face masks or reusable face shields that can be decontaminated. Where appropriate, limit customer and public access to worksites or restrict access to certain areas. Consider minimizing face-to-face contact, and communicate the availability of health resources.

Medium Exposure Risk
	Cloth Mask	CDC advises the use of simple cloth face coverings to slow the spread of the virus and help people who may have the virus and do not know it from transmitting it to others.
	Nitrile Gloves	General resistance against chemicals and other biohazards.

Lower Exposure Risk (Caution): This category covers jobs that do not require contact with people known to be, or suspected of being, infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 nor require frequent close contact with (i.e., within six feet of) the general public. Recommended Action: Employers should provide employees with general guidance and common-sense methods to reduce exposure and monitor recommendations by the CDC for updates. No additional engineering controls or PPE are recommended at this time.

Lower Exposure Risk
	Cloth Mask	CDC advises the use of simple cloth face coverings to slow the spread of the virus and help people who may have the virus and do not know it from transmitting it to others.