Essential Businesses Recommended Response Plan: COVID-19

4/15/2020 (Permalink)

SERVPRO is an essential business and Here to Help!

During these unprecedented times, most people and organizations are doing their best to try and help the community in many heart-felt and encouraging ways. We at SERVPRO of Southwest Waukesha County also want to help. Going forward, we will be sharing what we feel is important information and articles that can help the communities that we serve. This week, we want to share information about a recommended COVID-19 response plan for businesses that were determined to be "essential."

By implementing a COVID-19 Response Plan, an “essential” business pledges to dedicating resources immediately to identify and mitigate situations in the workplace which may introduce, expose or spread COVID-19. Each company’s plan, unique to the operations under its control, will document the identification and mitigation measures taken, including all engineering controls, administrative controls and safe work practices, and will update that plan on a regular basis for the duration of the COVID-19 situation. Below are some of the changes that are implemented during this time to help do their part to make the “essential” workplace as safe as possible and still continue to operate.

• Ban in-person meetings (internal or external) and employee convenings (formal or informal) of any size. Employee communication handled virtually wherever possible.

• Regular body temperature scans performed and logged for all on-site employees (contingent on availability of scanning devices, which are in short supply due to acute global demand).

• Immediate workflow audit that removes instances of employees being within 6’ of each other.

• Reduction of on-site work hours to minimum needed to sustain operations.

• Staggered shifts and work hours to minimize on-site human presence at a given time.

• Staggered use of all shared spaces, including bathrooms, break-rooms and lunchrooms.

• Staggered facility entry and exit procedures.

• Mandatory work at home for all employees except the absolute minimum required for baseline production and logistics functions.

• Sanitary processes implemented throughout facility (soap, hand sanitizer, single-use gloves, doors propped open, hands-free capabilities, no shared food).

• Blue tape marking of surfaces that receive frequent human contact; disinfection of these surfaces multiple times daily.

• International travel ban – business and personal.

• Domestic business travel bans except for critical operations (with senior management approval). Domestic personal travel requires employee to self-quarantine for 14 days and be symptom-free before returning to work.

• Any employee returning from a Level 2 or 3 CDC travel country must self-quarantine for 14 days and be symptom-free before returning to work.

• No deliveries except those that support production activities or emergency building maintenance.

• No visitors (including suppliers and customers) except those approved by senior management.

• Employees must immediately report symptoms associated with COVID-19 exposure.

• Employees must report contact with any person who tests positive for COVID-19; employee must subsequently self-quarantine for 14 days and be symptom-free before returning to work.

• Essential manufacturing personnel should be evaluated in the testing queue, especially in circumstances in which employers would request workers to be sequestered on site, Certify clean and then shelter in the workplace.

Please remember that SERVPRO of Southwest Waukesha is an essential business and here to help. If you have fire or water damage, mold remediation or asbestos abatement, call us at 262-542-0900.

Also note that SERVPRO is Here to Help with all types of disinfecting services.  We use hospital-grade disinfectants to help clean and disinfect structures with a concern about exposure to various types of viruses.