Getting the Film and TV

Industry Back to Work

Reducing the Risk from

Infectious Diseases

Getting Back to Work

Do people feel safe?

Can we stay safe and still produce great content?

How can we avoid another shutdown?

How to Reduce the Risk for the Industry? Integrated Strategy• Apply Infection Prevention and Control

measures (that have been proven effective in military settings and structures) to the novel setting of a film/tv production

• Apply systems engineering perspective to examine & modify workflow

• Use a change management model to transition to these new, safer workflows

• Leverage existing technologies, including COVID-19 testing, as they become available

• Adhere to State Guidelines and the Federal “Guidelines for Opening Up America Again”

AIR PURIFICATION SYSTEMS

Our Services

• Develop infection prevention & control implementation plan for production• Provides a risk assessment for the

production project • Provides risk mitigation measures for the

specific production project• Provides detailed guidance for each

production specialty

• Includes initial crew & cast training (before production):• General COVID-19 information and

information on individual protective measures (1 hr duration)

• Discipline-specific guidance on how to modify workflows to enhance health & safety during production

• Includes consulting services (addressing specific issues) before production

• Cost is tailored to size & scope of production

Pre-Production: Develop an Implementation Plan

Production: COVID-19 Compliance Officer

Consulting Services

• Provide a formally trained/certified Infection Prevention Control Preventionist to serve as a COVID-19 Compliance Officer who will:• Conduct daily personnel health surveys and

surveillance on arrival and departure at production site

• Monitor health & safety workflows to ensure they are safe & effective (many workflows fail because they are not optimally designed, not because people are not ‘compliant’)

• Provide daily reports to production leadership on any health & safety issues

• Support production response to any identified or potential cases of COVID-19

• Provide crew/cast training to new members, as needed

• Cost is tailored to size & scope of production

• Review existing production policies & procedures

• Assist in selecting most effective PPE, cleaners, and disinfectants

• Provide assistance in determining solutions to any identified health and safety issues

• Provide COVID-19 training, on request

• Cost is $175/hr, if purchased separately from Implementation Plan or Compliance Officer services. Discounts available if consulting hours are purchased as packages (e.g. 5 hrs at a time)

Who is Trifecta Solutions?Infection Prevention & Control expertise with certified infection control (CIC) professionals consulting to multiple Air Force Surgeons General for over 14 years.

Helping healthcare systems adapt to a changing environment since 2010.

Owners Lynn DiFato and Debra Schnelle helped to develop the official Air Force Pandemic Flu Plan and the Army Smallpox Response Plan.

Co-authored an article evaluating the use of disease transmission models during a pandemic outbreak which predicted the current situation.

• Decades of experience managing infection control in a large, complex healthcare system (Air Force Medical Service, with 74 hospitals)

• Invited to speak to the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense in February 2019

• In their roles as consultants to multiple SGs maintained high standards of infection control minimizing hospital acquired infections HAI unnecessary deaths.

Lynn DiFato, BSN, MPH (Retired USAF LtCol.)

Debra Schnelle, MS Physics(Retired US Army LTC)

Mary Anne Yip, RN, MS, CIC(Retired USAF LtCol.)

Why Trifecta Solutions?• Infection Prevention and Control teams led by

experts Certified in infection Control (CIC) with decades of experience in the largest healthcare systems in the world (Military Health System and Veterans Health Administration)

• Military Experience – the ability to apply Infection Prevention and Control in challenging and novel environments; combat operations, natural disasters, crowds, and more

• Respecting the importance of the same Chain of Command control structures that exists in production and the military

Let us get you back to work safely!

Lynn DiFato 301-399-7848 lynn.difato@trifecta-solutions.com

www.trifecta-solutions.com