We practice safety for you and us by doing the following things:
Know the signs and symptoms of COVID-19 and what to do if we develop symptoms at the workplace.
Make health and safety a priority by implementing safeguards to protect clients and employees. Provide training, educational materials (available at healthoregon.org/coronavirus), and reinforcement on proper sanitation, handwashing, cough and sneeze etiquette, and using other protective equipment.
Implement physical distancing measures (6’ between cleaner and client) consistent with the Governor’s Executive Orders and state guidance.
Both cleaners and clients must wear a face covering in the home unless the individual:
– Is under two years of age.
– Has a medical condition that makes it hard to breathe when wearing a face covering.
– Has a disability that prevents the individual from wearing a face covering.
Reinforce meticulous hand hygiene (wash hands with soapy, warm water, for a minimum of 20 seconds). Ensure that soap and water or alcohol-based (60-95%) hand sanitizer is provided in the workplace. Wash hands before beginning to clean at each location, as well as at the end of cleaning at each location.
Require disinfection of equipment between uses. Use disinfectants that are Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-registered. (Bioesque with Thymox and Lysol Disinfecting Wipes) Observe contact time on the label so disinfectant will be effective.
Require employees to stay home when sick. On a daily basis, ask cleaners the same questions as client screening.
Immediately send home employees with COVID-19 like symptoms (cough, fever, shortness of breath, etc.) and not allow them to return to work until at least 72 hours after fever and other symptoms have resolved without medication.
Client screening prior to housecleaning:
Have you had a new or worsening cough?
Have you had a fever?
Do you have loss of smell or taste?
Have you had shortness of breath?
Have you been in close contact with anyone with these symptoms or anyone who has been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the past 14 days?
Reschedule if client answers “yes” to any of the questions above until client’s symptoms have been resolved, and fever has been resolved without medication for at least 72 hours, or at least 14 days after contact with a person sick with cough, fever, or diagnosed COVID-19.