6 Ways Your Business Can Keep Broussard Safe During Delta

As an increasing number of Delta cases are starting to appear, many of our clients and partnering businesses are asking what actions they need to take immediately and what will be necessary. To keep employees, their families, Broussard, and surrounding communities safe, and to mitigate against business disruption, employers must prepare—rather than panic. 

 

How Can Businesses in Broussard Prevent the Spread of Delta?

Even if your business does not operate in the vicinity of any reported cases, there are steps that employers can take immediately.

1.Maintain Standards of Cleanliness

Regularly clean all office surfaces and objects. Provide alcohol-based hand sanitizer (If stores are sold out, you are only 1 Google search away from making your own), tissues, and disposable wipes. Educate employees, especially about official recommendations for hand hygiene. (However, you should be doing all of this even when there isn’t an epidemic!)

2. Send Sick Employees Home

If an employee shows signs of fever or respiratory illness, encourage them to stay home and not come to work until all symptoms have been absent for at least 24 hours. If symptoms arise while an employee is at work, try to ensure they are separated from their co-workers.

Your leave policies should be consistent with public health guidance and, if possible, should be updated to be non-punitive, so as not to incentivize coming to work while sick. This should also be true for any agencies who provide your business with temporary staff.

3. Encourage Social Distancing and Vaccinations 

As the virus appears to spread primarily through proximity to infected persons, it is good practice to avoid unnecessary closeness in workplace. If it possible for employees to sit further apart or even to work from home, this should be encouraged, especially for particularly vulnerable people: those who are elderly, pregnant or immunocompromised or live with those who are.

To enable this, reduce unnecessary meetings/large gatherings and ensure all employees (in industries where this is possible) are equipped with software allowing them to ‘tele-commute’.

Also have an understanding of which of your employees are vaccinated and encourage them to get their shots if they have not already.

4. Track Recent and Future Travel

If an employee has recently returned from a region with high risk of Coronavirus (currently China, South Korea, Iran and Italy), consider allowing them to work from home till 14 days have passed since their return. Keep track of all international travel by employees, in case of further outbreaks elsewhere. When planning business travel, check the CDC’s latest travel advice.

5. Keep Employees Informed

During epidemics, rumors can spread fast and employers should provide employees with accurate information to avoid false panics. Ensure that you are able to communicate with all employees directly, to immediately inform them of any important updates.

6. Create/Update a Pandemic Prepare

You likely already have a plan prepared from the start of COVID, revisit and adjust accordingly in the case of future mandates and changes.

 

 

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