During the COVID-19 pandemic, many workplaces across the world strictly limited or ceased in-person activities, including parts of the Federal government. While much work continued remotely, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) needed to make decisions about allowing employees to travel to conduct workplace safety and health field research and public health service work. To assist with these decisions, NIOSH developed a risk-based model to conduct fieldwork, balancing the public health benefit of such work with the risks of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) exposure and transmission. The model is described in detail in a recent
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