CHLA Lodging News May/June 2020

26 CALIFORNIA LODGING NEWS  www.calodging.com   continued Employee Safety First and foremost, encourage symptomatic employees to stay home and to not come in if they are sick or have been exposed to someone who is sick. In some cases, it may be acceptable to take employees temperatures before their shifts starts. Always follow local public health recommendations and continue to reinforce hand washing and cough etiquette to all. Is someone keeping up on the cleaning of your employee areas? Are the doorknobs for the employee entrance, the employee restrooms, time clocks, other shared items and common areas being cleaned as regularly as they should be? Are there plenty of handwashing and sanitation areas for your employees? Encourage social distancing, especially in team common areas. If desks or work areas are very close together, rearrange them or stagger shifts now more than ever. Click here to review EcoLabs Cleaning and disinfecting guidance for hospitality for the Novel Coronavirus, which includes a list of disinfectants approved by the EPA for use against the Novel Coronavirus. These are just a few things to think about as we start to get ready to go back to normal and travel again. I personally am looking forward to that day! 