Steps to Reopen Your Business

With Governor DeWine slowly allowing businesses to reopen, businesses have to take steps to try to keep their workers and customers safe. These steps include:

• Encourage employees who have childcare issues or are high-risk to work from home. 

• Consider splitting your employees into 2 or more teams, so that not everyone is the building at the same time. 

• Provide PPE to your employees to wear and either require them to be worn or strongly suggest it. 

• Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces.

• Provide hand sanitizer and wipes throughout the entire workplace.  The ENTIRE workplace. 

• Encourage Zoom, GoTo, WebEx or whatever videoconferencing your prefer for your meetings – even if everyone is in the office.

• Encourage your employees to call each other on the phone, even if they’re both in the office.  Discourage “popping in” to co-workers offices for chats. 

• Prop open internal doors during work hours.

Kroger, the nation’s largest grocery store chain, has had to address a lot of these issues since it is an essential business. Kroger has decided to help other businesses by sharing what it has learned. It has published a 48 page manual called “Sharing What We Learned: A Blueprint for Businesses,” To download a copy of this, click here.