What is it about?
This article discusses how COVID has impacted the American workforce, symptoms of Long COVID syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and ways to avoid triggering its symptoms when sanitizing the workplace and using Universal Design practices to increase accessibility and decrease transmission of COVID 19 among workers. Interface with healthcare providers, rehabilitation professionals, and employers is emphasized.
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Why is it important?
This article will help people understand how COVID has affected the workplace and how individuals with COVID and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity can reduce lingering effects at work. We also review how Universal Design can help all people in the workplace.
Perspectives
It is important to recognize the changes that have occurred due to the pandemic, and we can navigate them knowing certain people may be impacted more than others. By using Universal Design, we can promote success in the workplace for everyone.
Kimberly Wickert
University of Kentucky
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This page is a summary of: Return to work considerations in the lingering COVID-19 Era: Long COVID, multiple chemical sensitivity, and universal design, WORK A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation, October 2022, IOS Press,
DOI: 10.3233/wor-223641.
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