A Guide for Public Transportation Pandemic Planning and Response (2014) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
Pages 28-31
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 28... ...
28 C H A P T E R 5 Pandemics produce two operational burdens on local transportation organizations: widespread absenteeism across all sectors and infection prevention. Since both can have a substantial impact on the ability to provide services, transportation agencies must identify their essential functions and strategies for reallocating resources to maintain those essential functions if possible.
|
From page 29... ...
Providing Services During a Pandemic 29 Exhibit 21. Providing services during a pandemic checklist.
|
From page 30... ...
30 A Guide for Public Transportation Pandemic Planning and Response This process is vital to being able to respond to long-term absenteeism in a strategic and organized fashion. Determining essential functions can be difficult because staff and others may incorrectly presume that any function that is not selected as essential is not important.
|
From page 31... ...
Providing Services During a Pandemic 31 Multiple options are available to transportation organizations to minimize the spread of disease to riders, surfaces, and transit workers. Transportation agencies should incorporate some or all of the actions above when consistent with the recommendations of their local public health department or OSHA and the CDC.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.