COVID-19 screening for businesses helps detect cases where unvaccinated people are asymptomatic. These individuals have no symptoms but can unknowingly infect others.
Businesses / Organizations
Surveillance Programs for Businesses and Organizations
How Our Program Works
Nexsun offers a range of COVID services for businesses such as traditional nasal swab PCR tests, less invasive saliva PCR tests, and pool testing options.
Nexsun supplies you with the equipment to collect the samples, the necessary paperwork for processing the samples, and information to give employees about your testing program and approach.
Why Partner with Nexsun Labs for Your Testing Needs?
Nexsun Diagnostic Labs specializes in testing for COVID-19, giving you and your employees:
• Fast turnaround with results in 24 hours or less (once the sample reaches the lab).
• Affordable access to regular testing.
• Accurate results with CLIA & COLA certified processes.
Nexsun makes the testing process effortless, so your business and employees face minimal disruptions to their workday and the peace of mind knowing you are maintaining a healthy and happy workplace.
Benefits of an Ongoing Testing Program
The essential benefits of an ongoing Coronavirus testing program in your workplace include:
• Improved morale – regular testing is a commitment to keeping your employees and their families safe from harm.
• Reputation – reassuring customers and partners that you run a safe and effective business.
• Maintaining business activity – minimizing critical staff shortages means you can continue to thrive in challenging times.
• Compliance with legislation – meet local requirements and maintain compliance to run a safe business practice.
• Protecting your community – an ongoing testing program helps safeguard your community from future COVID-19 outbreaks.
Types of Screening and Surveillance Programs for Businesses
Screening tests quickly detect potential Coronavirus cases and let you work to prevent transmission.
CDC guidelines recommend weekly testing as a minimum in most cases.
Daily Entrance Screening
Daily entrance screening is a way of performing a quick check on employee health with or without a physical test for COVID-19.
Some employers prefer to do their screening at the point of entry to the workplace. Others allow employees to test themselves at home and rely on the honor system where an employee reports any symptoms without a questionnaire.
The CDC recommendation is that you keep a record of your daily screening results for at least 28 days while maintaining the individual’s privacy.
Pool Testing
Pool testing is an affordable and rapid option for handling potential outbreaks in the workplace. Instead of testing each employee individually, a group of employees each collect a sample, which are then combined in one test.
If the test comes back negative, then all the employees in that group are clear of infection. If the test comes back positive, individual tests will be run to find those in the pool who do have COVID-19. The sample taken for the initial pool test is sufficient to run a pool test and individual follow-up tests if necessary.
Careful selection of the employee pools allows you to maintain a grasp of areas in your workforce that are clear of COVID-19 and others where you may need to reinforce other measures like social distancing and wearing PPE.
Suitable sampling techniques include the less invasive saliva COVID-19 test or the familiar nasal swab COVID-19 test.
Contact Tracing
When you identify an employee with a positive COVID-19 result, they may have inadvertently transmitted the virus to their close contacts in the workplace. The CDC defines close contact as anyone who was within 6 feet of an infected person for a total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period (for example, three individual 5-minute exposures for a total of 15 minutes).
You can ask the employee and their manager to report their close contacts in the past ten working days, but this relies on the notoriously unreliable human memory! Timesheets are useful indicators of when an employee was working, but they don’t always cover where an employee was throughout the day.
Digital contact tracing systems are affordable, accurate, and have business benefits beyond COVID-19 contact tracing. A digital system produces an immediate report of all qualifying close contacts in under a minute, saving time and ensuring that you pick up all potential contacts.
Which Program is Best for Your Business?
Different businesses face different levels of COVID transmission risk and how staff shortages impact their ability to function. Systematic screening of your employees for COVID-19 is one of the options to keep your workplace healthy.
The best testing program for your business will depend on:
Number Of
Employees
Workplace
Density
Community
Infection Rates
Working
Processes
Visitors and
customers
Affordability
During your hazard assessment, you can establish where the transmission risks are highest, and Nexsun can provide COVID-19 services that meet your needs.
Bottom Line: partnering with a dedicated testing laboratory, like Nexsun Labs, means you get accurate and consistent testing of your employees at an affordable price.
