COVID-19: How to keep your Perry Hall business safe during this pandemic

4/3/2020 (Permalink)

In Maryland, Essential workers are overwhelmed with how to keep the workplace safe and sanitary during the novel Coronavirus. Here are some tips from SERVPRO, based on the CDC's recommendations.

Keeping the Workplace Safe during COVID-19

Encourage your employees to...

• Practice Good Hygiene
• Stop shaking hands – use other noncontact methods of greeting
• Clean hands with sanitizer or wash their hands frequently
• Avoid touching their faces and cover coughs and sneezes
• Disinfect surfaces like doorknobs, tables, desks, and handrails regularly
• Increase ventilation by opening windows or adjusting air conditioning

Be Careful with Meetings and Travel

• Use videoconferencing for meetings when possible
• When not possible, hold meetings in open, well-ventilated spaces
• Consider adjusting or postponing large meetings or gatherings
• Assess the risks of business travel Handle Food Carefully
• Limit sharing food with others
• Strengthen health screenings for cafeteria staff and their close contacts
• Ensure cafeteria staff and their close contacts practice strict hygiene

Stay Home if...

• They are feeling sick
• They have a sick family member in their home

SERVPRO of Perry Hall/White Marsh  professionals are trained to perform a proactive cleanup that involves facility or structure cleaning and disinfection. Cleanup procedures generally include cleaning of porous and non-porous surfaces, disinfecting of non-porous surfaces, cleaning and disinfecting of equipment, tools, and/or supplies used for cleanup process, and disposal of waste.

About Coronavirus

The CDC is responding to an outbreak of a respiratory disease caused by a novel (new) coronavirus that was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China and has spread to 60 locations internationally (as of this publication), including cases in the United States. The virus known as “coronavirus disease 2019” (abbreviated “COVID-19”)iii is thought to spread mainly from person-to-person or through respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes. It may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.iv

Sources

i https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

ii  https://https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html/coronavirus/2019-ncov/specific-groups/guidance-business-response.html

iii https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/summary.html

iv https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/transmission.html