A Guide to Reopen Your Business: Everything You Need to Know

Do you have the essential products you need to protect your employees and customers from the SARS COV-2, or COVID-19 pandemic? You want to make sure you are completely prepared to be open so your business does not have a COVID-19 outbreak and have to cease operations.

We all want to get back to the way things were, but it is important to follow guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organizaion (WHO), as well as local public health guidelines. Many small businesses are opening up the worksites again. Before your business reopens, stock up on face masks, alcohol hand sanitizer, and a no contact thermometer at the minimum. Use UV Sterilizer products available to help you disinfect your furniture surface area. Other options include purifying the air you breathe with UV-C light technology.

We put together a list of steps you should consider so that everyone can work in a safe and healthy environment. Together, we can conquer the corona virus pandemic.

Identify essential business functions and employees

Identify alternate supply chains for your critical goods and services and plan staggered shifts for your employees, promoting social distancing and minimizing the number of people at the worksite at a time. If customers often visit your worksite, consider installing a drive-up window where they can pick up products or develop a path to deliver it to customers.

Revise leave policies

Revise your leave policies to cover situations caused by the coronavirus. Leave policies should be flexible and non-punitive. Review your company leave policy with all employees and make sure they fully understand. If an employee has symptoms or has been around someone who tested postive, they should not come into work until confirming their case. If an employee tests positive, do not have them come into work for two weeks.

Prepare business continuity plans

Review your business’s current continuity plan or make a new one. The plan must cover specific effects of the corona virus, such as having less people in the workplace than usual. For more information, the Department of Homeland Security details all the steps needed to create a business continuity plan at https://www.ready.gov/business-continuity-plan.

Establish an emergency communications plan

Develop a way to communicate with your employees so that they have the most up to date information on what the workplace is doing to prevent the spread of COVID-19. You can use an online forum, mailing list, or call list.

After you have prepared policies and procedures to reopen the workplace, you need the essential products to keep your employees safe and healthy. Here is everything you need to keep the workplace COVID-19 free:

UV sterilizer: UV sterilizers represent the future of cleaning- they use UV rays to kill germs in minutes! Choose the best option for your business and make sure to use it often.

To reopen safely, your business needs:

• Policy and procedures: revised leave policy, business continuity plan, emergency communications plan
• Essential products: thermometers, masks, hand sanitizer, tissues, soap, UV sterilizers, and disinfectants

If your business meets all requirements, then you are ready to open.

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Wash your hands, stay clean, and stay healthy!