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Five Tips to Protect Employees’ Health
12/9/2020 (Permalink)
Five Tips to Protect Employees’ Health
Healthy employees are crucial to your business. Here are 5 ways to help them stay healthy.
1) Actively encourage sick employees to stay home. Develop policies that encourage sick employees to stay at home without fear of reprisals, and ensure employees are aware of these policies. 2) Have conversations with employees about their concerns. Some employees may be at higher risk for severe illness, such as older adults and those with chronic medical conditions.3) Develop other flexible policies for scheduling and telework (if feasible) and create leave policies to allow employees to stay home to care for sick family members or care for children if schools and childcare close.
4) Talk with companies that provide your business with contract or temporary employees about their plans. Discuss the importance of sick employees staying home and encourage them to develop non-punitive “emergency sick leave” policies.
5) Promote etiquette for coughing and sneezing and handwashing. Provide tissues, no-touch trash cans, soap and water, and hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol.
Call SERVPRO of Southern Monroe County at 570-424-2290 to clean and disinfect any areas a sick customer or employee visited.