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- Schedule facility cleanings more often
- Create signage that gives social distancing guidance to employees
- Make sanitation stations widely available including hand washing stations
- Increase air flow into facilities (consider upgrading HVAC systems)
- Require masks especially when close contact between people is unavoidable
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Training Staff with Social Distancing Restrictions
According to centers for disease control and prevention (CDC), social distancing, also called “physical distancing”, means keeping a safe distance between yourself and other people who are not from your household. In practice, maintain a social distance of 6 feet from others in both indoor and outdoor spaces. This is one of the most important ways to combat the spread of coronavirus since it is commonly spread through airborne transmission. Using social distancing as a guideline here are some tips to conduct training in your facilities. Keep six feet of distance between participants. Maximize space by breaking training sessions into small groups. Make signage clearly visible that routes foot traffic in one way patterns. Rearrange desks for personal space. Also make online training available for employees who are at greater risk so that they can participate as well. Avoid busy areas by not promoting places where attendees could potentially congregate. Even though people enjoy a lounge area with refreshments and an opportunity to network, these areas will have a higher risk of transmission. Leave the networking to social media apps like LinkedIn at this time. An alternative would be to place a table somewhere along the one-way traffic route that has refreshments for pick-up. If your facility has an outdoor area, consider using that environment for a social distancing training session. Fresh air and sunlight provide the perfect environment to combat pandemic risks. In situations where some participants are unable to attend the training session, video conferencing tools should be integrated into the meeting room and be made available. Webinars through tools such as zoom, google hangouts meet, and Microsoft teams make this type of interactivity possible. In situations where distance is required, audio guide communication headsets will allow communication to flourish even with additional measures put in place to reduce the spread of COVID.