Like COVID-19, new infectious disease outbreaks emerge almost annually, and studies predict that this trend will continue due to a variety of factors, including an aging population, ease of travel, and globalization of the economy. In response to episodic public health crises, governments and organizations develop, implement, and enforce policies, procedures, protocols, and programs. The epidemiological triad is both a model of disease causation and fundamentally used to design and deploy such control measures. Here we adapt this model to the workplace setting and use the epidemiological triad to characterize the related ethical challenges in implementing the control measures employers face as a guide for a workplace intervention framework. Through this approach, our aim is to show how an integrated ethical framework, grounded in epidemiological principles, has important implications for how we categorize, understand, and resolve the difficult decisions that emerge in the workplace under pandemic conditions.

与 COVID-19 一样，几乎每年都会出现新的传染病爆发，研究预测，由于人口老龄化、旅行便利和经济全球化等多种因素，这一趋势将持续下去。为了应对偶发的公共卫生危机，政府和组织制定、实施和执行政策、程序、协议和计划。流行病学三联征既是疾病因果关系的模型，又从根本上用于设计和部署此类控制措施。在这里，我们将此模型应用于工作场所环境，并使用流行病学三元组来描述在实施雇主面临的控制措施时相关的伦理挑战，作为工作场所干预框架的指南。通过这种方法，我们的目标是展示一个综合的道德框架如何，