SALT LAKE CITY-The University of Utah has released information concerning all staff and faculty being required to take an online health training module.
This consists of proper sanitation, hygiene and physical distancing practices being followed by employees.
Once this is completed, all UofU employees will need to electronically sign an attestation confirming they will abide by all safety protocols.
The training and related forms may be accessed at returntocampus.utah.edu.
Those who engage in this activity will also receive a direct link to the training from the Human Resources department at the university.
A training for students is presently in development.
Effective June 15, the office of the Vice President for Research will conduct a policy governing undergraduate research.
Student-athletes will begin returning to campus June 15. The university’s athletics department is providing health training and instituting safety protocols for these students.
With Salt Lake City, and therefore the UofU, currently under orange, or moderate risk, when the city shifts to yellow, the UofU’s progress will lag behind Salt Lake City’s by about a week.
This is to set up laboratories and other campus facilities appropriately.
In this statement, issued by Jeff Herring, the Chief Human Resources Officer at the UofU, it is anticipated that only researchers, students currently living in on-campus housing, student-athletes, select personnel (such as library and campus store staff, some administrators and facility staff who will begin preparing the campus for the fall semester), will be on campus at this time.
Herring confirmed the UofU is reliant upon instructions from health experts and state and federal authorities as they ensue in their planning.
He says this will also closely align with what institutional peers in the Beehive State, as well as in other states, are doing.
Herring asks that the UofU community treat their contemporaries on campus with “patience and kindness” as the fall semester comes into view to conclude his statements.
