COVID-19 Coronavirus Policy

Due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, Decorating Elves (DE) is taking a proactive step to address several business concerns. First and foremost, we want to maintain a safe workplace and adopt practices protecting the health of employees, customers, visitors or others. We also want to ensure the continuity of business operations during this pandemic.

We ask all employees to cooperate in taking steps to reduce the transmission of communicable diseases in the workplace. Employees are reminded of the following:

  • Take your temperature daily and remain home if you have a fever. Stay home when you are sick.
  • Wash your hands frequently with warm, soapy water for at least 20 seconds.
  • Cover your mouth with tissues whenever you sneeze, and discard used tissues in the trash.
  • Avoid people who are sick with respiratory symptoms.
  • Clean frequently touched surfaces.
  • It is critical that employees do not report to work while they are experiencing respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough, shortness of breath, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills or fatigue. Currently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that employees with temperatures remain at home until at least 24 hours after they are free of fever (100.4 degrees F or 37.8 degrees C using an oral thermometer) or signs of a fever without the use of fever-reducing medications. Many times, with the best of intentions, employees report to work even though they feel ill.
  • Employees who report to work ill will be sent home in accordance with these health guidelines.

DE requires all team member to wear a SOLID COLOR with no designs or emblems on face mask or face shield. No neck gators allowed.  DE will provide alcohol-based hand sanitizers throughout the workplace and in common areas. Cleaning sprays and wipes will also be provided to clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces such as telephones and keyboards.

Office and warehouse social distancing:

  • To limit the number of people in the office, DE is asking all team members to refrain from entering the office. Only management should be entering the office. Managers must take their temperatures and ensure they do no have a fever before entering.  Once the office is entered a face masks must be worn with a 6-foot separation between employees.
  • If you need to speak with someone in the office knock on the window and someone will come out to help you.
  • Warehouse workers should temperature check to ensure you do not have a fever prior to entering the workspace. Team members who are working with in a 6-foot area are required to wear a face mask and maintain that working distance.
  • DE will avoid gatherings of 10+ people; and when meeting, will keep a 6-foot distance between people.

Jobsites will practice the following steps to maintain a safe site:

  • Supervisors will temp check every team member before entering the daily job site.
  • Supervisors should ask the following questions to all employees prior to entering the jobsite. If they answer “yes” to any, they should be asked to leave the jobsite immediately. Anyone asked to leave should not return to work until 24-hours after they are free from a fever or signs of a fever without the use of fever-reducing medication.
    • Have you, or anyone in your family, been in contact with a person that has tested positive for COVID-19?
    • Have you, or anyone in your family, been in contact with a person that is in the process of being tested for COVID-19?
    • Have you, or anyone in your family traveled outside of the U.S. within the last two weeks?
    • Have you been medically directed to self-quarantine due to possible exposure to COVID-19?
    • Are you having trouble breathing or have you had flu-like symptoms within the past 48 hours, including: fever, cough, shortness of breath, sore throat, runny/stuffy nose, body aches, chills, or fatigue?
  • Instruct employees to clean their hands often with an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60-95% alcohol or wash their hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. Soap and water should be used preferentially if hands are visibly dirty.
  • Provide soap and water and alcohol-based hand rubs in the workplace. Ensure that adequate supplies are maintained. Place hand rubs in multiple locations or in conference rooms to encourage hand hygiene.
  • Do not congregate in lunch areas.
  • Do not share tools.
  • Do not share personal protection equipment (PPE).
  • Sanitize reusable PPE per manufacturer’s recommendation prior to each use.
  • Ensure used PPE is disposed of properly.
  • Utilize disposable gloves where appropriate; instruct workers to wash hands after removing gloves.
  • Disinfect reusable supplies and equipment.
  • Identify specific locations and practices for daily trash such as: paper, hand towels, food containers, etc. Instruct workers responsible for trash removal in proper PPE/hand washing practices.
  • Provide routine environmental cleaning (doorknobs, keyboards, counters, and other surfaces)
  • Do not use a common water cooler. Provide individual water bottles or instruct workers to bring their own.
  • Utilize shoe sanitation tubs (non-bleach sanitizer solution) prior to entering/leaving jobsite.
  • Instruct workers to change work clothes prior to arriving home; and to wash clothes in hot water with laundry sanitizer.
  • Don’t stack trades if possible. (The stacking of trades describes project conditions where multiple tradespeople are working simultaneously in a single work area. Stacking creates congestion and crew interference and can also negatively affect productivity.)
  • Utilize disposable hand towels and no-touch trash receptacles.
  • Avoid cleaning techniques, such as using pressurized air or water sprays that may result in the generation of bioaerosols.

Please contact the Office Administrator with any questions or concerns.