| Fully vaccinated individuals should wear a mask when participating in indoor private gatherings, traveling, and dining or shopping, and should wear a mask for outdoor gatherings, if they are unable to socially distance. Partially or unvaccinated individuals should avoid private gatherings, travel, dining and shopping unless essential. Wear a mask when conducting essential activities. Protecting Your Employees -
To ensure adequate distancing between staff in communal areas, consider limiting in-store and on-site capacity and reduce capacity in enclosed spaces like elevators. -
Encourage all employees to become fully vaccinated and grant paid time off for employees to become vaccinated. -
Encourage all employees to wear face masks and provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to employees. -
Instruct employees with COVID-19 symptoms or who have contacted someone with COVID-19 symptoms to notify their supervisor and stay home. -
Frequently disinfect and clean throughout the day, especially high touch areas like door handles, registers, checkout lanes, public restrooms, and employee break rooms. Protecting Your Customers and Our Community -
Encourage all customers to wear face masks and post clearly visible signage for your businesses' mask policy. -
To ensure adequate distancing between customers, consider limiting in-store and on-site capacity and reduce capacity in enclosed spaces like elevators. -
Provide touchless hand sanitizer stations and no-touch trash cans for customers. -
Frequently disinfect and clean throughout the day, especially high touch areas like door handles, registers, checkout lanes, and public restrooms, dressing rooms. -
Provide drive-through services, click-and-collect online shopping, shop-by-phone, curbside pickup, and delivery options where feasible. Seven Tips to Prepare for Changing Conditions -
Be prepared to change business practices in order to maintain critical operations. -
Identify alternative suppliers for critical goods and services. -
Share best practices with other employees in your community. -
Prioritize job functions to ensure continuous operations. -
Formalize best practices based on lessons learned since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Ensure redundancy among your employees/workforce in case absenteeism spikes. -
Deliver services remotely (e.g., web, phone, video).
Reporting COVID-19 Infections and Deaths The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires employers to record work-related cases of COVID-19 illness on OSHA's Form 300 logs if the case is a confirmed case of COVID-19, the case is work-related, and the case involves one or more relevant recording criteria (e.g., medical treatment, days away from work). Visit OSHA's website for more information. | 
