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Administrative/Clerical: Staying Healthy Around Sick Coworkers

Office Dynamics

Wipe your telephone handset, keyboard, desk surface, copy machine, fax machine, and other surfaces with disinfecting wipes, or use a disinfectant spray with paper towels. You should also ask if you can create an office policy to address flu season etiquette.

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When you suspect a co-worker has a substance abuse problem.

Laughing all the Way to Work

it requires a firm culture that discusses recovery openly and strongly support it -both in action and written policy. and hopefully, they have supportive procedures and policies in place to help them." Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. This is usually a lot of "talk" in companies.but little real support for it.