Covid-19 is affecting our personal and professional lives. If you’re a business owner, you’ve felt the heat.
Yes, your business focus is to provide quality goods and services at an affordable rate. But now, you have to fold in measures that keep your customers and employees to be safe.
It is challenging to maintain this, especially with the reducing sales. Fortunately, there are available resources to keep your customers and employees safe during the pandemic.
Here are some strategies you can employ to keep your business safe during the pandemic.
- Clean and Disinfect the Workplace
Disinfecting high-touch surfaces is instrumental in reducing the spread of covid-19. But that’s not all, it reduces the spread of other germs or viruses.
When cleaning your business premises, you’ll need to develop a simple plan for everyone to understand. For instance, clearly label disposal areas for highly infectious materials like masks.
Further, you want to have the right disinfectant materials on site. In most cases, the common disinfectants are known to bleach wooden or other surfaces. Opting for cold sterilization ensures the exercise doesn’t damage any surface or cause health problems to you, your workers, or customers.
- Create a Plan
Yes, your business premises are clean and free from any germs or viruses. But that’s not all! At this stage, prepare for the best while expecting the worst. For instance, what will you do to protect your employees and the company?
The best thing would be creating or revamping your emergency preparedness plan. The plan should clearly outline the measures you’re taking to protect your business and its employees. It should also be clear on the measures to take if the disaster strikes.
The following information should form part of your plan.
- How you intend to protect your business, employees, and the customers
- The steps to follow if an outbreak occurs at your company
- The emergency contact numbers
- How to deal with your business operations if covid-19 hits your company.
- Create a Work from Home Policy
Yes, if possible, allow your employees to work from home. Doing so avoids the congestion in the office, thus making physical distancing possible.
Maybe you’ve tried this policy before by allowing some employees to work from home. Or maybe it is something new for your firm.
In some industries, it’s not possible to give employees the luxury of working from home. Such include professions like nursing that require customers to interact with your employees.
- Consult with the Employees
As a business manager, you want to protect your business, employees, and customers. However, making decisions that touch on your employees without consulting them may not deliver the results you want.
The consultation allows all the stakeholders to embrace the decisions emanating from that process. With this, the task of implementing the resolutions becomes easier.
As part of the consultation:
- Explain the changes you intend to make at the workplace
- Ensure that changes are workable by listening to ideas and suggestions from your employees
Conclusion
As a business owner, you must keep your workplace covid-19 secure. You can do this by implementing a thorough cleaning exercise.
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