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A SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a plastics manufacturing plant
BACKGROUND: A SARS-CoV-2 outbreak with an attack rate of 14.3% was reported at a plastics manufacturing plant in England. METHODS: Between 23(rd) March and 13(th) May 2021, the COVID-OUT team undertook a comprehensive outbreak investigation, including environmental assessment, surface sampling, mole...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10241115/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37277762 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16025-8 |
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author | Graham, Alice Raja, Amber I. van Veldhoven, Karin Nicholls, Gillian Simpson, Andrew Atkinson, Barry Nicholls, Ian Higgins, Hannah Cooke, Joan Bennett, Allan Morgan, Derek Keen, Chris Fletcher, Tony Pearce, Neil Atchison, Christina Brickley, Elizabeth B. Chen, Yiqun |
author_facet | Graham, Alice Raja, Amber I. van Veldhoven, Karin Nicholls, Gillian Simpson, Andrew Atkinson, Barry Nicholls, Ian Higgins, Hannah Cooke, Joan Bennett, Allan Morgan, Derek Keen, Chris Fletcher, Tony Pearce, Neil Atchison, Christina Brickley, Elizabeth B. Chen, Yiqun |
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description | BACKGROUND: A SARS-CoV-2 outbreak with an attack rate of 14.3% was reported at a plastics manufacturing plant in England. METHODS: Between 23(rd) March and 13(th) May 2021, the COVID-OUT team undertook a comprehensive outbreak investigation, including environmental assessment, surface sampling, molecular and serological testing, and detailed questionnaires, to identify potential SARS-CoV-2 transmission routes, and workplace- and worker-related risk factors. RESULTS: While ventilation, indicated using real-time CO(2) proxy measures, was generally adequate on-site, the technical office with the highest localized attack rate (21.4%) frequently reached peaks in CO(2) of 2100ppm. SARS-CoV-2 RNA was found in low levels (Ct ≥35) in surface samples collected across the site. High noise levels (79dB) were recorded in the main production area, and study participants reported having close work contacts (73.1%) and sharing tools (75.5%). Only 20.0% of participants reported using a surgical mask and/or FFP2/FFP3 respirator at least half the time and 71.0% expressed concerns regarding potential pay decreases and/or unemployment due to self-isolation or workplace closure. CONCLUSIONS: The findings reinforce the importance of enhanced infection control measures in manufacturing sectors, including improved ventilation with possible consideration of CO(2) monitoring, utilising air cleaning interventions in enclosed environments, and provision of good-quality face masks (i.e., surgical masks or FFP2/FFP3 respirators) especially when social distancing cannot be maintained. Further research on the impacts of job security-related concerns is warranted. |
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spelling | pubmed-102411152023-06-06 A SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a plastics manufacturing plant Graham, Alice Raja, Amber I. van Veldhoven, Karin Nicholls, Gillian Simpson, Andrew Atkinson, Barry Nicholls, Ian Higgins, Hannah Cooke, Joan Bennett, Allan Morgan, Derek Keen, Chris Fletcher, Tony Pearce, Neil Atchison, Christina Brickley, Elizabeth B. Chen, Yiqun BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: A SARS-CoV-2 outbreak with an attack rate of 14.3% was reported at a plastics manufacturing plant in England. METHODS: Between 23(rd) March and 13(th) May 2021, the COVID-OUT team undertook a comprehensive outbreak investigation, including environmental assessment, surface sampling, molecular and serological testing, and detailed questionnaires, to identify potential SARS-CoV-2 transmission routes, and workplace- and worker-related risk factors. RESULTS: While ventilation, indicated using real-time CO(2) proxy measures, was generally adequate on-site, the technical office with the highest localized attack rate (21.4%) frequently reached peaks in CO(2) of 2100ppm. SARS-CoV-2 RNA was found in low levels (Ct ≥35) in surface samples collected across the site. High noise levels (79dB) were recorded in the main production area, and study participants reported having close work contacts (73.1%) and sharing tools (75.5%). Only 20.0% of participants reported using a surgical mask and/or FFP2/FFP3 respirator at least half the time and 71.0% expressed concerns regarding potential pay decreases and/or unemployment due to self-isolation or workplace closure. CONCLUSIONS: The findings reinforce the importance of enhanced infection control measures in manufacturing sectors, including improved ventilation with possible consideration of CO(2) monitoring, utilising air cleaning interventions in enclosed environments, and provision of good-quality face masks (i.e., surgical masks or FFP2/FFP3 respirators) especially when social distancing cannot be maintained. Further research on the impacts of job security-related concerns is warranted. BioMed Central 2023-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC10241115/ /pubmed/37277762 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16025-8 Text en © Crown 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Graham, Alice Raja, Amber I. van Veldhoven, Karin Nicholls, Gillian Simpson, Andrew Atkinson, Barry Nicholls, Ian Higgins, Hannah Cooke, Joan Bennett, Allan Morgan, Derek Keen, Chris Fletcher, Tony Pearce, Neil Atchison, Christina Brickley, Elizabeth B. Chen, Yiqun A SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a plastics manufacturing plant |
title | A SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a plastics manufacturing plant |
title_full | A SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a plastics manufacturing plant |
title_fullStr | A SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a plastics manufacturing plant |
title_full_unstemmed | A SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a plastics manufacturing plant |
title_short | A SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a plastics manufacturing plant |
title_sort | sars-cov-2 outbreak in a plastics manufacturing plant |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10241115/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37277762 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16025-8 |
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