The Second Wave Is Here—How Do We Expedite the Temperature Scanning and COVID-19 Questionnaire Process?
Despite everyone’s best efforts, it looks like coronavirus is going to be part of our lives for a while yet. Along with the obvious impact on health, COVID-19 continues to have a significant economic impact on businesses and they are struggling to find efficient temperature scanning and implementing COVID-19 questionnaires. MyLobby.com has a solution that automates the whole process As we prepare for a second wave, how are companies meant to keep their doors open during a pandemic? What actions can we put in place now to safeguard the health of our businesses and employees?
How businesses can deal with a second wave
By now, you probably have already experienced walking into retail stores or restaurants to have your temperature taken or the very least requested to fill out a paper log with your name and phone number for contact tracing. The problem is with these logbooks are not legible It can be hard keeping up with the latest regulations that have been put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19, as these vary between countries, states, and businesses. For example, the White House Guidelines recommend developing and implementing strategies in line with regulations and best practices regarding:
- Social distancing and protective equipment
- Temperature scanning
COVID-19 Questionnaire
Sanitation - Use and disinfection of common and high-traffic areas
Business travel
In addition, they recommend monitoring the workforce for any indicative symptoms, The question is how do you do that?
The Canadian government encourages employers to reduce risks in the workplace with regular cleaning/disinfection and the use of personal protective equipment.
They also require businesses to keep sick employees/customers out of the workplace and encourage them to consider screening for signs of COVID-19 before letting anyone in.
The problem with temperature scanning
While most of us will have experienced health screening, either with a temperature scanner or a paper-based COVID-19 questionnaire, it can be an expensive and time-consuming method of protecting your business.
To be effective, you need to record any temperature scanning carried out. If you’re keeping written records, you might need pages of records for every single day. This soon adds up, making it difficult to both store and access the information you need to protect your business.
Most COVID-19 questionnaires also require you to allocate additional resources. In many cases, security staff and HR personnel have been co-opted from their typical roles as they’re appointed to monitor the COVID-19 questionnaires and temperature checks. As a result, it’s not unusual for businesses to have to bring on additional staff to meet their obligations and incur further costs.
Finally, there’s a human element that needs to be carefully monitored and managed. For example, if your staff are using electronic devices to record their temperature scanning, they may end up with ‘screen fatigue.’
After spending hours looking at any screen, people may feel strain and discomfort. This can be a problem with any task, but is particularly an issue when dealing with essential tasks—such as COVID-19 questionnaires and temperature scanning. Combined with the inevitable stresses and pressure of trying to sign everyone in at the start of the day, dealing with a long queue of people waiting to clock in, it can easily lead to mistakes.
Automating the COVID-19 screening process for improved results
To get around the issues associated with the COVID 19 questionnaire and temperature scanning, more businesses are discovering the benefits of an automated COVID-19 screening process. Unlike people—who can get stressed and make mistakes—an automated temperature screening system can record accurate information. Digital records make it easy to verify that checks have been carried out correctly, with custom notifications automatically sent to the necessary people if there’s a high reading or any other issues that come up.This is what the process would look like. Each employee will have their own custom COVID-19 questionnaire URL link that can be saved on their mobile devices for quick access. Once the COVID-19 screening process is completed, it will provide you a 4-digit code that will identify you on the temperature scanner.
The Mylobby COVID 19 questionnaire and temperature scanner platform will allow businesses to save money by automating this whole process. Without having to pay for additional staff to carry out screening, an automated system will pay for itself in as little as two weeks.
Conclusion
With the current forecasts, it doesn’t look like coronavirus is going away anytime soon. It’s essential that businesses need to take action now to protect themselves and their employees.Automated temperature screening helps businesses by reducing bottlenecks and ensuring that accurate records are kept at a reduced cost. By having an automated screening system in place, businesses can more effectively safeguard the people using their buildings and provide a safe working environment for all. Find out more about our temperature screening solutions and see how they could help your business today.