How exposed is your job to coronavirus?

how exposed are you?

Given the current standing and state of lock down, a number of governments worldwide have started to relax their lock down and curfew rules to enable their citizens go back to work. However, before you embark and resume work how sure are you that your job is safe from corona virus?

There is no globally accepted criteria for ranking this exposure as different media houses, research organizations, and institutions have come up with various parameters to consider while calculating the Covid19 risk

 To achieve this and come up with an answer, we (@Atomgeospatialsolutions) considered 4 main attributes of your job:

1. Degree of Personal Contact with customers during work
2. Distance between you and your customers
3. How essential is your service or job?
4. How automated can your job be?

Degree of Personal Contact with customers during work

contact

This determines whether you need to interact physically with customer during service delivery or not. Professionals such as Medical doctors, dentists, nurses have high degree of contact with patients and thus a high risk of infection. Actually this is evidenced in the current rise in corona virus infections for medical practitioner’s world wide

Distance between you and your customers

social distancing

 Jobs that require you to be in a radius of less than 2 meters while dealing with clients have a high risk of corona virus infection than jobs where you can serve clients in a distance more than 2 meters. Actually this Is the reason why most governments are highly encouraging and promoting social distancing as a way of reducing the risk of infection and spread. Because of this reason, Truck drivers, shop attendants, Dentists, nurses and doctors have a higher risk than Radio presenters, television presenters, artists, surveyors e.t.c

How essential is your service or job? 

Doctors undertaking an operation

whether a job is essential or not determines if it can be paused during this pandemic or it cannot. Doctors, nurses, fuel pump attendants, police officers, are more exposed because the essentiality of their services. A result those people are always exposed to multitudes of people each single day and thus the high risk of infection. On the other hand, bar attendants, comedians, tailors re less exposed to the risk because their services can be paused for a given period of time with little effect on the public

How automated can your job be?

use of AI systems

The degree of automation determines whether work can be substituted by machines or artificial intelligence programmers and thus reducing the risk of human exposure to the disease. For this reason, many IT jobs, computer science jobs, data science jobs online tutoring jobs are at a low risk of exposure. However medical jobs till stand at a high risk due to a low rate of automation. Consider the work of a dentist or a mid-wife during childbirth.

Considering the above factors, we can determine which jobs are more prone to corona viru than the others. Below is a sample risk ranking :

Occupation	Risk
Doctor	High
Dentist	High
Nurse	High
Obstetricians and Gynecologists	High
Midwives	High
Bus Drivers	High
Taxi drivers	High
Ambulance Drivers	Medium
Teachers	Medium
Education Administrators	Medium
Tutors	Medium
Office Clerks	Medium
Waiters	Medium
Baristas	Medium
Community Health Workers	Medium
Counter Attendants	Medium
Tailors	Medium
Loan Interviewers and Clerks	Medium
Fitness Trainers	Medium
Cook	Medium
Sociologists	Low
Remote Sensing Scientists	Low
Environmental Economists	Low
Molecular and Cellular Biologists	Low
Actuaries	Low
Atmospheric and Space Scientists	Low
Soil and Plant Scientists	Low
Poets	Low
Computer Network Architects	Low
Mathematicians	Low
Astronomers	Low
Economists	Low
Farmers	Low
Web Developer	Low
Civil Engineers	Low
Zoologist	Low

Together we can fight this virus. stay home, stay safe