The Albany California Chamber of Commerce hosts a webinar featuring David Moore from Intrinsic Environment, Health and Safety. David shares information and guidelines for preparing for retail businesses to open as the COVID-19 Stay at Home orders are relaxed. David talks about how the virus is transmitted, how to prepare your retail space to reopen, how to maintain the safety of the space when it is open, and what steps to take to protect the health of employees and customers. Invaluable information in this difficult time.

This webinar took place on Wednesday, May 6th. Please remember that information is changing frequently during this time. Information regarding policies and orders is expected to change, so be sure to check with your city, county, and state when making decisions regarding opening your business.

Key Time Indexes:

• Introductions: 00:00:00
• Stay at Home Order Overview: 00:01:51
• Stay at Home Order & Business: 00:07:14
• About the Virus & How it Spreads: 00:11:06
• Signs, Symptoms & When to Seek Help: 00:20:46
• How to Defend Ourselves and our Businesses: 00:23:17
• Question: Virus on Surfaces? 00:28:35
• Social Distancing in Your Business: 31:20
• Getting Ready to Reopen - Cleaning and More: 00:35:07
• Resources: 00:41:35
• Questions: 00:45:27
• Is opening windows a good idea?: 00:45:47
• Air Purifiers?: 00:48:12
• In gyms: 00:50:52
• Maintaining safe bathrooms: 00:52:45
• Steam cleaning / disinfecting for shoe stores: 00:56:47
• Communicating to customers: 00:59:39
• UV Light to disinfect 01:01:44
• Fitting people in entertainement or event venue: 01:04:14
• Should you remove curtains?: 01:08:04
• Working 1-on-1 in enclosed space: 1:11:35
• How long let disinfectant sit: 01:14:46
• Use UV ovens for disinfecting?: 01:15:34
• Disinfecting Cloth Masks: 01:16:30
• County of Alameda: 01:18:04
• Use of gloves: 01:19:38
• Importance of compassion & empathy: 01:21:55
• Finishing up and Resources: 01:24:00