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Covid-19 SARS CoV-2 Risk assessment Preventive measures ErgonomicsCOVID-19 was announced to be a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. A lockdown in most countries throughout the world took place to break the chain of its spread. In late May of the same year re-opening started with new regulations to protect people from this new SARS-CoV-2 hazard. The goal of this study was to evaluate the degree to which COVID related occupational preventive measures were being taken in North Cyprus (NC) at the time of the COVID-19 Pandemic. A checklist was prepared and applied to different industries in NC to identify the observable measures taken. A risk assessment (RA) was conducted in a private hospital using the online interactive risk assessment (OiRA) tool of OSHA-EU. Mask usage and alcohol-based disinfectants at only the main entrances (54.55%) were the most important measures taken. The RA conducted in a hospital setting where there was a lot of people traffic, mostly patients, entering and exiting, showed that the hospital was not well prepared for the new SARS-CoV-2 occupational risk factor. Poor workplace management was identified. Even the most important, basic general measures to reduce physical contact and therefore the risk of infection had not been adopted.

Family home might be the first place where LGBT+ individuals intensely experience pressure and various forms of violence. For many LGBT+ subjects, leaving home is a liberating action that opens a way for eliminating domestic violence and offers a resource for establishing/experiencing their identity. Since then, the spaces that queers can be "queer" starts to be formed for the LGBT+s and gay venues (e.g. gay bars) are one of the critical components of this transition. They offer adequate information related to identity diversity, relatively safer zones and a sphere to find oneself or others. It also can enable new forms of relations and a sense of belonging to a place. However, there is still a risk that these venues can be repressive for several reasons that have similarities to the family home dynamics that put obstacles towards queer liberation. This study focuses on the opportunities and pitfalls of LGBT+ venues by comparison with the experience of the family home. I investigate the possibilities: Do these venues keep individuals away from oppression or do they become places where a different form of oppression emerges by expecting certain performances from their attendees similar to the inside home performance? Furthermore, I inquiry whether the gay individuals associate these venues with the notion "home", or the people in the community with the notion "family". To be able to acquire these possibilities, the in-depth interviews have been conducted with LGBT+ persons (n=13) who have experienced physical or digitally gay venues.