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  • Ensure employees stay 6 feet apart whenever practical

  • Post new cleaning protocols and guidance on PPE where associates can see them every day

  • Adjust seating in break rooms, lunchrooms, and other common areas to respect social distancing practices

  • Ban gatherings or meetings of employees during working hours unless specific areas have been approved where social distancing protocols are in place and capacity limits are indicated in said meeting areas

  • When possible, encourage employees to take breaks and lunch outside, in their office or personal workspace, or other areas where proper social distancing is feasible

  • Use virtual/video/audio training for employee onboarding or skills development as much as possible

  • Discourage employees from using colleagues’ phones, desks, workstations, transmitters, pens/markets, handhelds/wearables, or other offices/store/DC tools and equipment. If shared, clean said equipment, phones, and tablets with alcohol or disinfectant wipes

  • Disallow handshaking and other unnecessary person to person contact in the workplace or in store

  • Ensure employees wash their hands at the start of their shift, before eating or drinking, after touching shared items, after using the washroom or lunchroom, and before leaving the store. Remind employees to remove jewelry before washing

  • Post signs at entrances to the store and backrooms (delivery area) informing customers and delivery employees that they cannot enter the store if they are ill or are feeling unwell

  • If the store is located in a mall, ensure employees have all the protocols instituted by the property and provide checklists to keep staff well informed of rules and regulations

  • Restrict interaction between employees and outside visitors, contractors, delivery personnel or truck drivers; implement touchless electronic signature systems and related receiving practices wherever possible

  • Ensure you clean offices, lunchrooms, and workspaces at least once per day, and more often for high-traffic areas and contact surfaces.

  • Focus on frequently touched and shared surfaces such as keys, doors, handles, carts, handrails, light switches, shelves, countertops, drawers, keyboards and mice, touchscreens, payment keypads, cash<br>drawers, pens, tools, phones, radios, vending machines, tables, chairs, and kitchen equipment

  • Provide associates with the personal protective equipment they need to safely use cleaning products and make sure they use them correctly

  • Ensure operating hours allow downtime between shifts for thorough cleaning

  • Ensure cleaning procedures, following a known or potential exposure in the store, DC, head office or other facilities, comply with Public Health guidelines

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