Support for Your Health and Safety Needs

Faculty & Staff

If your position requires you to be on campus, the university is committed to supporting your well-being during this time of transition. Those required to be on campus should support on-campus research, in-person teaching, health and welfare of students or the on-campus student experience. If you can work remotely, you should continue to work remotely to reduce the population density for those who are working on campus.

The COVID-19 HR Guidance page has information for all employee groups (faculty, researchers, staff, graduate students, student employees). Please send HR questions to HRMail@colorado.edu.

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How to Protect Yourself

Health & Safety Compliance FAQs

It is often difficult to know what to do when someone is not following the current health & safety policy. You can find guidance in our health & safety compliance section on:

What to do if you see someone not wearing a face covering
How to hand a situation when someone isn’t physically distancing
Understanding your role as a supervisor or leader

COVID-19 Safety & Awareness Training

All CU Boulder employees resuming work on campus must take a COVID-19 Safety and Awareness training before returning. The course is designed to help you understand campus requirements and provide information on safety measures.

To access the Skillsoft training:

Click CU: COVID-19 Safety and Awareness—CU Boulder
Select the Boulder campus
Log in with your IdentiKey to launch the training

You may also access the training by visiting mycuinfo.colorado.edu, select training from the menu, click on Skillsoft, then CU Boulder, then search for CU: COVID-19 Safety and Awareness—CU Boulder.

Faculty & Staff Daily Health Form

A daily health check is required for all faculty, staff and students each day you intend to be on the CU Boulder campus. The form must be completed before you return to campus. This form asks four brief questions related to COVID-19:

Symptoms
Temperature
Recent close contact with a probable COVID-19 case
Testing history

If you are displaying any of the symptoms or feeling ill, you should stay at home, fill out the questionnaire, consult with your primary care physician and notify your supervisor.

Your supervisor will work with your department HR or Employee Relations to make sure appropriate leave is offered. If you are concerned that a colleague may be ill, please reach out to your department HR or Employee Relations.

More Information on the Daily Health Form

COVID-19 Health & Safety Policy

The Health and Safety Policy outlines measures critical to protecting both the campus as a whole and people at higher risk from COVID-19. It includes measures related to social and physical distancing, and campus density reductions; the use of appropriate personal protective equipment and enhanced cleaning protocols; and personal hygiene discipline.

The policy includes two sections:

Expectations for supervisors, department chairs and university officers
Expectations for faculty, staff, students and visitors

Review the complete COVID-19 Health and Safety Policy >>

Expectations for Faculty, and Staff

Visit the CU Boulder Health and Safety Compliance page for information regarding expectations for Faculty & Staff.

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Human Resources

COVID-19 HR Guidance
- Guidance is provided on topics such as:
  - Caring for a child whose school or place of care is closed
  - Child care provider is unavailable due to COVID-19
Employee resources for benefits, child care and support resources

Medical & High-risk Accommodations

To discuss mask exceptions, contact ADA through the Employee Accommodation Request Form.
If employees (faculty, researcher, staff, graduate student or student employee) anticipate they will not be able to return to campus, faculty and staff should review options found on the Employee Guidance for Returning to Campus. Guidance is provided on topics such as:
- Caring for a child whose school or place of care is closed
- Child care provider is unavailable due to COVID-19
- Experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 and seeking a medical diagnosis
- Being diagnosed with COVID-19 or advised by a health care provider to self-quarantine because of COVID-19
- Caring for a family member diagnosed with COVID-19 subject or advised to quarantine or isolate

Self-care

Where to Find Protective Equipment

The university has purchased a base package of personal protective equipment and cleaning supplies that includes:

Two reusable cloth masks for each of our faculty, staff and students who are on campus. More details on where you can pick up your masks can be found here.
Hand sanitizer stations and refills for all main building entrances and high-traffic areas.
Disposable disinfecting wipes for every classroom.
Spray bottles of disinfectant cleaning solution and paper towels for office spaces, labs or areas not routinely serviced by custodial staff.
Individual offices or departments may identify additional PPE needs or desire additional products such as small bottles of hand sanitizer for office spaces or service counters. Those items are not part of the campuswide base package and will need to be ordered by individual units or departments through CU Marketplace.
If you have PPE purchasing questions, email fmdc@colorado.edu for support.

As of July 15, 2020, the campus continued to work on logistics for a distribution process. You can find details and updates on the protection equipment guidance page.

Building Mitigation Efforts for Health & Safety Protection

The Facilities Task Force is addressing needs for ventilation, barriers, physical distancing in classrooms, directional hallways and more. For information on the measures being taken to keep our buildings safe and minimize the risk of virus transmission, visit the Infrastructure Mitigation Efforts page.

Download Building Signage

Campus departments can use our COVID-10 safety and directional signage for their areas.

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Research Behind Campus Efforts

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Some worry the science was rushed. Others question whether the benefits outweigh the risks. Here's what Teresa Foley, a teaching professor of distinction in integrative physiology, tells students, acquaintances and family who are hesitant. Read more

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Confronting COVID-19 with AAU research, like better air filtration in schools

CU Boulder is collaborating with the Association of American Universities and others on a series raising awareness about the role of public research universities in times of significant global challenges. In CU Boulder's clip, an environmental engineering team is working with schools to improve air filtration. Read more

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The state is heading in the right direction, but still has a lot of work to do before it can remove all public health restrictions, such as mask mandates, researchers say. Read more

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Student-led spring study shows high mask compliance on campus

A new study of mask compliance across 53 campuses, including CU Boulder, suggests that while there's some room for improvement, college students are listening to public health advice and wearing face coverings. Read more

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CU Boulder launches accelerator for university-developed COVID-19 innovations

Venture Partners at CU Boulder has launched an accelerator to support the translation of CU-developed COVID-19 innovations into new businesses. Faculty, students and staff with COVID-19-related innovations are invited to apply—the deadline is May 21. Read more

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The current COVID-19 pandemic and other disease outbreaks aren't just biological phenomena, a team of archaeologists argue—these events are also shaped by the broader welfare of human societies. Read more