Tool: Voluntary COVID-19 Vaccination Policy

It behooves you to ensure that lab workers get vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect not only themselves but also co-workers, patients and others at your facility. But what if workers neglect or just plain refuse to be vaccinated? There are two basic options:

• Option 1: Require lab workers to be vaccinated
• Option 2: Encourage lab workers to be vaccinated voluntarily

Here’s a Model Policy you can use to implement Option 2. For a Model Mandatory Policy, see page X; and for an analysis of the legal implications of mandatory v. voluntary vaccination policies, see the related story on page X.