Retail Businesses Resume Operations Requirement Checklist

To safely operate in a COVID-19 environment, it will be critical to make your operating model compliant with new practices and requirements. Even if you’re currently operating, having solid plans to restart or reengineer your business begins with thinking ahead of the current state of crisis. Organizations will need to restructure how they operate their businesses in the new normal of social distancing. Use these checklists as guidance to make the return to work safe.

Inspection

a. Social Distancing

i. No more than 20 customers, or 25 percent maximum business occupancy as required by law (whichever is smaller) is permitted at any one time.

ii. Social distance of at least six feet is maintained between non-household individuals.

iii. Cloth face coverings shall be worn by all employees and patrons.

iv. Only one adult per household per visit.

v. Establish a COVID-19 Mitigation Plan addressing the practices and protocols to protect staff and the public.

vi. Entryway signage notifying the public of the business’s COVID-19 Mitigation Plan and stating clearly that any person with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 may not enter the premises.

b. Hygiene:

i. Employer must provide hand washing capability or sanitizer.

ii. Frequent hand washing by employees, and an adequate supply of soap, disinfectant, hand sanitizer, and paper towels must be available.

iii. Employer must provide for hourly touch-point sanitization (e.g. workstations, equipment, screens, doorknobs, restrooms) throughout work site.

c. Staffing/Operations:

i. Provide training for employees regarding these requirements and the business mitigation plan;

ii. Conduct pre-shift screening, maintain staff screening log;

iii. No employee displaying symptoms of COVID-19 will provide services to customers. Symptomatic or ill employees may not report to work;

iv. No person may work within 72 hours of exhibiting a fever;

v. Employer must establish a plan for employees getting ill and a return-to-work plan following CDC guidance, which can be found online at: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/guidance-businessresponse.html.

d. Cleaning and Disinfecting:

i. Cleaning and disinfecting must be conducted in compliance with CDC protocols weekly or, in lieu of performing the CDC cleaning and disinfecting, the retail business may shut down for a period of at least 72 consecutive hours per week to allow for natural deactivation of the virus, followed by site personnel performing a comprehensive disinfection of all common surfaces.

ii. When an active employee is identified as being COVID-19 positive by testing,CDC cleaning and disinfecting must be performed as soon after the confirmation of a positive test as practical. In lieu of performing CDC cleaning and disinfecting, retail businesses may shut down for a period of at least 72 consecutive hours to allow for natural deactivation of the virus,followed by site personnel performing a comprehensive disinfection of all common surfaces.

i. CDC protocols can be found online at:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/guidance-businessresponse.html and https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/disinfecting-building-facility.html