Working and health conditions in teleworkers in mandatory social isolation due to COVID-19: exploratory survey in Lima and Callao.

Introduction: The socioeconomic and health situation of people have been affected during the COVID-19 pandemic; in Peru, preventive labor measures were taken to promote home working, which generated working conditions requiring special attention.

Objectives: To describe the results of an online survey on working and health conditions in workers from Lima and Callao who worked from home during the first period of mandatory social isolation due to COVID-19.

Methods: In this exploratory study, an online survey adapted from the Questionnaire on Working Conditions, Employment and Health in Latin America and the Caribbean was applied between March 21 and April 11, 2020.

Situational diagnosis of plans for the surveillance, prevention and control of COVID-19 at work in the hydrocarbon sector.

Introduction: During the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru, economic activities were restricted to limit the risk of contagion, and companies were required to prepare and register the plan for COVID-19 surveillance, prevention and control in the workplace prior to resuming activities.

Objective: To describe the status of plan registration in the hydrocarbon sector during the first half of 2020, as well as the characteristics of health professionals and occupational health and safety supervisors or committees.

Methods: Cross-sectional study with secondary analysis of databases obtained from the Integrated System for COVID-19 of Companies (Sistema Integrado para COVID-19 de Empresas, SISCOVID Empresas) and government public data on the mining sector.

Preventive measures for health workers exposed to COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2).

COVID-19 is a disease caused by a new coronavirus that presented an epidemic focus in China in December 2019 and was declared as a pandemic months later. Consequently, the health systems of most countries implemented preventive measures for their population, thus affecting health personnel, which is the first response force. According to the World Health Organization, 37 million health workers fell ill with COVID-19.