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Perkaroma: Together Let’s Build A Better Workplace

At Perkaroma, we are dedicated to making your office a better place. In this time of uncertainty, we can help you find ways to mitigate some of the risks, while still making your business a place that your employees want to be. From cleaning supplies to snacks and sanitizing products, we have the essential items in stock that can contribute to a cleaner, safer environment. Contact us now to get started — the sooner you start, the better prepared you will be, and the more comfortable your team will feel.

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The Safe Six: Workplace Readiness Checklist

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Prepare Your Building For People To Return

Cleaning, pre-return inspections, HVAC and mechanicals checks

  • Ensure the safety of all of your workers
  • Prepare your HVAC, mechanical, and fire/life safety systems
  • Clean your building with products approved by governing authorities
  • Make sure you are compliant with building owner/landlord policies
  • Engage vendors in your back-to-work-plan
  • Review and prepare plans for changes to cleaning and any other extra services
  • Ensure all inspections, remediations, repairs, and communication is finished before you reopen
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Prepare Your Workforce

Policies for determining who can return and when; employee communication

  • Reduce the anxiety around returning to the workplace with change management planning and communication
  • Consider how people benefit from returning to work
    • Proximity to colleagues encourages productivity
    • Socialization
    • Amenities
    • Access to work resources and tools
  • Consider how people benefit from continuing to work at home
    • Prioritizing their health and family
    • Reduced/no commute times
    • Technology mitigates loss of productivity
  • Develop and enact a detailed plan about how and when to return to work
  • Provide advice on alternate means of safe commuting
  • Prepare and post reminders of important protocols
    • Social distancing
    • Cleaning
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Control Access

Protocols for safety and health checks, reception areas, shipping and receiving, elevators, visitor policies

  • Control all entry points, including delivery points
  • Reconfigure gathering and lobby areas to maintain proper social distancing
  • Install plexiglass shields (where needed)
  • Ensure than building protocols are clearly communicated using signage and floor markings
  • Consider regular temperature screenings
  • Provide hand sanitizer, wipes, and personal protective equipment (PPE) as necessary
  • Disable touchscreens

 

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Create a Social Distancing Plan

Decrease density, schedule management, office traffic patterns

  • Think about phasing schedules based on roles and priorities (include temperature checks, if needed)
    • Alternate work weeks between in-office and work from home
    • Stagger arrival and departure times
    • Allow teams to set or negotiate for individuals in-office schedules
  • Introduce social distancing protocols throughout the building
  • Monitor how people use their space
  • Specify seating assignments for employees to ensure minimum safe distances as people work
  • Redesign spaces and alternate desk and chair usage to maintain social distancing
  • Add panels between desks
    • Don’t forget height adjustable panels for sitting/standing desks
  • Create and enforce stringent cleaning protocols for shared spaces
  • Reduce capacity in shared spaces
    • Remove excess chairs in conference rooms
  • Prohibit the shared use of smaller rooms
    • Make them single-occupant use rooms only
  • Designate and post directions for foot traffic along main paths

 

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Reduce Touch Points and Increase Cleaning

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  • Create and maintain enhanced cleaning and disinfection practices
  • Provide disinfectants near or at each desk or work area
    • This is especially important for shared areas
  • Remove food and drink
    • Think about restocking with single-serving items
  • Provide DIY cleaning supplies
    • Hand sanitizer
    • Disinfectant wipes
  • Sanitize all workspace areas and ensure all appliances, fixtures, and equipment are working properly
    • Offices
    • Conference rooms
    • Breakrooms
    • Cafeterias
    • Restrooms
  • Limit in-person meetings
  • Consider low-touch or no-touch switches, doors, drawers, and other fittings
  • Remove frequently touched shared tools
    • Whiteboard markers
    • Remote controls
  • Create and enforce a clean desk policy
  • Create secure designated storage areas for personal items
  • Designate a specific enclosed room to isolate any person self-identifying themselves as having symptoms
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Communicate For Confidence

Recognize the fear people may have about returning to work, communicate as transparently as possible, listen to and survey your team regularly

  • Ensure leadership is aligned on re-entry
  • Establish two-way communication
  • Ensure that you have a trusting and transparent culture
  • Clearly set expectations for your employees, emphasizing your dedication to helping them feel secure
    • Return to work/work from home policies and incentives
    • Clear guest/visitor policies
    • Employee travel policies
    • Human resource policies for illness, support for caregivers, etc.

 

Most importantly — remember to constantly reinforce hand-washing, social distancing, and staying home if you feel ill.

Building And Office Requirements For Re-Entry

*Remember: only corporate offices explicitly approved by AEC per the Re-Entry Guidelines are eligible for re-entry.*

General Guidelines

  • Always follow global COVID-19 procedures found here.
  • Follow the WHO and CDC guidelines on cough and sneeze etiquette.
  • If an employee does not feel well when they are at work, they must leave the office immediately and return to their home.
  • Set and enforce the rule that if someone feels sick, they must stay home.
  • Management will inform employees when they can/should return to work.
  • Always practice good hand hygiene.
    • Wash and disinfect your hands regularly.
  • Maintain proper social distancing.
    • Stay 6 feet away from other people
    • No handshakes
    • No hugging
    • No kissing
  • Avoid touching surfaces.
    • Elevator buttons
    • Bells
    • Door handles
  • Ensure that your employees follow directions set by management.
  • If employees must attend off-site meetings, they need to:
    • Get approval from their manager
    • Use appropriate PPE
  • No visitors or clients should be allowed inside during Phase 1 Re-Entry.

Work Places

  • Follow proper social distancing procedures in all shared areas.
    • Workstations
    • Printing areas
    • Pantries
    • Break rooms
  • Only use workstations that are explicitly marked as available for use.
  • Ensure that all conference rooms and collaboration spaces used according to social distancing rules and that there are written reminders in these spaces.
  • Only one person can use telephone/collaboration booths at a time.
    • Sanitizer must be provided to clean the room before and after they are used
  • Clear workstations and all other work surfaces after use in order to facilitate easier cleaning.
  • Local FM and Local Market Operations Lead have developed a system to track which employees are in the space, while also tracking when they are there.

Work Environment

  • Some small pantries and other facilities may have a limited occupancy.
  • Make waste bins easily accessible and placed throughout work areas.
    • Add more bins if needed
  • For Phase 1 Re-Entry, restrooms should only be used by one person at a time.
    • Use signs to ensure compliance
  • Sanitize touch points on shared appliances before and after use.
    • Refrigerators
    • Coffee machines
    • Water dispensers
  • Wear appropriate face coverings when moving about the space.
  • Put a system in place to easily identify whether or not a workstation has been cleaned.

Cleaning

  • FM should confirm deep clean of space before the official re-entry date.
  • FM should confirm that an enhanced daily cleaning schedule is in place with appropriate vendors.
    • Signs explaining daily cleaning regiment should be in place.
  • Provide standing sanitizing units near all critical areas:
    • Entrances
    • Toilets
    • Staircases
    • Doors
  • Hygiene and other informative signs should be in place.
  • FM should identify lockable storage options for all PPE and cleaning supplies (if needed).

Necessary Equipment and Products For Re-Opening

Perkaroma has nearly everything your office needs to be able to safely re-open when the time comes.

Individual PPE

Masks:

UV Lights:

  • UV wands

Gloves:

Thermometers:

Face Protection:

Door Openers/Styluses:

  • Button and door openers/styluses

Essential Items and Equipment For Reception Areas

  • Acrylic safety barriers
  • Disinfectant wipes
  • Disinfectant spray
  • Hand sanitizer pumps
  • Social distancing signs
  • Directional floor signs
  • Paper towels
  • Facial tissues

Essential Items For Office Work Spaces

  • Acrylic safety barriers
  • Disinfectant wipes
  • Disinfectant spray
  • Hand sanitizer pumps
  • Social distancing signs
  • Directional floor signs
  • Paper towels
  • Facial tissues

Essential Items For Common Areas

  • Acrylic safety barriers
  • Disinfectant wipes
  • Disinfectant spray
  • Hand sanitizer pumps
  • Social distancing signs
  • Directional floor signs
  • Paper towels
  • Facial tissues

Essential Items For Restrooms

  • Roll paper towels
  • Roll paper towel dispensers
  • Hand soap pumps
  • Hand soap wall dispensers
  • Toilet seat covers
  • Toilet paper

Essential Items For Breakrooms

  • Disinfectant wipes
  • Facial tissues
  • Disinfectant spray
  • Hand sanitizer pumps
  • Social distancing signs
  • Directional floor signs
  • Paper towels
  • Individually wrapped cups
  • Individually wrapped cutlery
  • Single-serve snacks
  • Coffee/water equipment sanitation service

Essential Items For Shipping and Receiving Areas

  • Disinfectant wipes
  • Disinfectant spray
  • Hand sanitizer pumps
  • Social distancing signs
  • Directional floor signs
  • Paper towels
  • UV wands

Essential Office Cleaning Supplies

  • Bleach
  • Disinfectant wipes
  • Disinfectant spray
  • Buckets
  • Mops
  • Brooms
  • Gloves
  • Paper towels

How To Show Your Employees That You Care

Order the supplies you need using our online store, or contact us today if you have questions.

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Staff Care Packages: Surprise your team with “hard to find” household essential items.

  • Disinfectant spray
  • Disinfecting wipes
  • Hand sanitizer
  • Paper towels
  • Masks
  • Snacks

Away From Home Benefit Packages: Show your staff that the employee break room benefits can go home with them while they are working at home.

  • Seltzer drinks
  • Cereal cups
  • Healthy chips
  • Trail mix
  • Coconut water
  • Protein bars
  • And a whole lot more!

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