UA Employee COVID-19 status tool

 General Counsel recently released a policy for gathering information about the presence of COVID-19 at our campuses and work sites. 

In order to do that, all employees, student employees, and contractors are required to follow the reporting procedure that the UA Incident Management Team put into place to assist with tracking COVID-19. Please read through the new procedure in entirety.

Here’s a brief summary of those requirements.

Use the UA Employee COVID-19 Status tool

  1. Supervisors or their delegates: Please log into the UA Employee COVID-19 Status tool and choose the status that best fits each of your employees. Please enter information on all of your employees. Here’s a quick-reference guide (PDF) to help with that process.

  2. If an employee’s status changes, log back into the tool and change their status. For example, a change in status could be from “Reduced time on campus” to “Required self-quarantine” or from “COVID confirmed” to “Working on campus.”

Report instances of COVID-19 at UA Facilities

  1. Employees, student employees or contractors who have been in a UA facility within the last 48 hours and who are: COVID-19-positive; have fever, cough, or shortness of breath; or are a Person Under Investigation by the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services are required to report their condition to UA Safety Director, Kenneth Walker, kewalker6@alaska.edu and include the following information:

    • Nature of COVID-19-related status (positive, under investigation, symptoms);
    • Date of first symptoms;
    • When the individual was last at a UA facility, and specific movements;
    • When the individual last traveled on UA business; and
    • Contacts in the 48 hours preceding COVID-19 symptoms with UA affiliates or others while on UA business.

  2. Employees should inform their supervisor if they have been in a UA facility within the last 48 hours, and are: COVID-19-positive; have fever, cough, or shortness of breath; or are a Person Under Investigation by the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services. In this situation, or if an employee who has not been on site in the last 48 hours but volunteers their COVID-19 status, supervisors should take the following action:

    • Direct the employee to stay home and not come to any university facility;
    • Update the UA Employee COVID-19 Status tool; and,
    • Contact Environmental Health, Safety and Risk Management.

The information shared by employees and supervisors will be handled with discretion and will be used by the university’s Incident Management Team to plan cleaning of buildings and support for people who need to quarantine or isolate.

To ensure the safety and health of our employees, students, and contractors, these reporting procedures are effective immediately.