Global corporate events company ITA Group has partnered with Eurofins, a global environmental health testing company with 80 of its 800 laboratories in the United States, to offer health risk mitigation services for face-to-face events throughout the U.S., the company announced. ITA sought the partnership to give clients the ability "to conduct Covid-19 inspection and audit protocols that are customized to their event and attendee needs."
The companies will follow local, state and federal guidelines for capacity and social distancing for each event, as well as recommend tailored strategies and guidelines to mitigate health risks associated with events and venues, they said.
Services the partnership provide include designing and auditing Covid-19 sampling and testing protocols and action plans to detect potential risks and monitor the effectiveness of cleaning procedures; conducting on-site Covid-19 testing with results within 24 hours; customizing health risk mitigation protocols for each event based on agenda, crowd flow, room set-ups, food service, participant demographics, destination guidelines, venues and property, and communications strategy; providing surface-testing swabs to determine presence of the virus at the pre-event visit and throughout the duration of the event; offering technology to help with contact tracing and maintaining safe social distances; and validating and auditing venue protocols immediately prior to the event.