Some businesses dependent on physical workplaces in Colorado of the United States are actively taking preventive measures and adjusting their work shifts under the safety guidelines provided by a newly-founded COVID-19 consultant firm for safe resumption.
After being away firm his customers for two months due to the epidemic, Zaki Hamid, owner of a contemporary clothes store called “Steadbrook” in Denver of Colorado, is taking safety precautions to keep his shop a virus-free space.
He hired a startup called “The Covid Consultants” to advise him on how to keep his shop a virus-free. Hamid said anything they can do to mitigate the risk is worth doing right now.
“We love our business, we’re so passionate about it but but safety, health and the protection of our community is our number one priority,” said Hamid.
All across the country, businesses dependent on physical workplaces are staggering work shifts and changing the way their buildings are set up and function.
Dana Lerman, a staff of the “The Covid Consultants”, is using her background as an infectious disease physician to help folks like Hamid enforce social distancing and precautions needed to comply with safety guidelines while making his employees and customers feel comfortable.
Tara Powers, founder of Powers Resource Center, is helping companies navigate this new work environment by sorting out movement patterns and areas of people at a law firm.
“She’s been spending weeks figuring out new paths of how people will flow through their large building and what elevators will be used to go up, what elevators will be used to go down,” said Powers.
It seems that the elevator traffic has become a bit of a science. Safety-related signs may soon be commonplace. The arrows pointing customers through stores and plexiglass dividers at front counters will soon become common. Cubicles and offices, as opposed to open work spaces, could also be coming in again, something that Powers worries about.
Ford Motor Company is even testing wearable wrist devices that buzz when workers get too close to each other. Of course, companies will have to decide how much to budget for all these retrofits.
Hamid has one policy that’s unique to stores like his. He said if anyone tries any clothes on, they steam it and then quarantine that piece for 24 hours. Lerman said hand-washing will also have to be done differently at his store.
“You need to implement these changes because they’re really important. You don’t want to have a COVID-19 outbreak in your facility,” said Lerman.
The stakes are high, but most businesses know they need to adjust for a very different future.
Source: CCTV
Published By Harry Miller
