COVID-19 Series: Guidance for Maintaining Safe Mass Transit Operations amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Join an expert panel from the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and Virginia Tech to obtain updated guidance on employee medical surveillance and testing, controlling COVID-19 transmission in mass transit operations and new insights on air flow and options for physical barriers as engineering-based mitigation strategies.

*The contents of this webinar are off the record and not for attribution or publication*

Moderator:

• Jeff Hiott, Vice-President,  Technical Services and Innovation, APTA

Presenters

Employee medical surveillance and testing 

• Douglas B. Trout, MD, MHS, Chief, NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluation Program, NIOSH

Transit SME – guidance on controlling transmission in mass transit operations

• Jennifer E. Lincoln, Health Scientist, Assistant Coordinator of the Transportation, Warehousing and Utilities Sector, NIOSH

Engineering-based mitigation strategies 

• Andrew Krum, Group Leader, Center for Truck and Bus Safety, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute