health-and-safety

From IndieWeb

A health and safety policy is a document that describes the guidelines and approaches an event, organization, or individual will take to maintain the health and safety of people, and most recent in-person IndieWebCamps have had various policies and rules to help mitigate the spread of illness.

Why

It is important for organizers to have policies in place that mitigate the spread of illness, an important part of accessibility.

Attending an in-person event today brings with it significantly more risk than it did in 2019 when robust mitigations are not in place.

Those risks disproportionately harm communities who were already marginalized and underrepresented, and present a barrier to access for people with disabilities, chronic illness, caregivers, people who are otherwise at high risk, and those who live with them.

Public Health Pledge

How


Review the Safer In-person Gatherings Toolkit

  • and consider implementing its precautions to help keep participants safer.

Review other examples listed below.

In the US, check local sewage and wastewater data as a gauge of virus levels in the area:

See some past notes: IndieWebCamp_Organizing#Health_and_Safety

IndieWebCamp Examples

Examples of specific health and safety policies used for recent IndieWebCamps (newest first)

IndieWeb Examples

gRegor Morrill

gRegor Morrill set up a personal health and safety policy page 2024-02-18:

Previously wrote about and drafted in:

Add yourself!

Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Other Examples

Brainstorming

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