8 Safety Tips to Reopen Your Onsite Services

Be it essential services or not, ensuring safety with productivity can be challenging. Also, it may not be possible for every business to continue working remotely. Unlike before, employers now need to focus on both: growth of their business and the safety of their employees and clients. While booking platforms help you to take your business online; integrating them into your onsite business is crucial. Capacity management has now become an essential part of reopening onsite services. With some precautions and many innovative ideas, your business can reopen its onsite services as effectively and safely as ever. 

1. Make Room: 

While your business continues onsite, following safety guidelines should be a top priority. Ensuring six feet distance, rearranging cubicles to create sections, using plexiglass dividers provides a safe work experience. Consequently, make sure that the customers who visit your workspace are also following safety precautions. Your business should abide by the CDC guidelines to self-check or monitor the Covid-19 symptoms. You can introduce a Covid declaration form that visitors need to sign before booking with you to ensure maximum safety. 

2. Eliminate Unnecessary Visits:

While you eliminate the risk of your employees being Covid-19 positive, make sure you control the number of visitors in and out. To maintain extra safety measures for a sudden visit from courier service, your facility could keep a single entrance for couriers so that goods can be sanitized before use. Simultaneously, manage your customer schedules. Always ensure that the number of people present is the minimum number of people required. With advanced scheduling, your business can provide member restrictions. Effective scheduling helps in managing onsite crowds and maintains social distancing norms.

Read- What is an Online Reservation System and why do you need it? 

3. Hybrid Structure:

Simultaneously, with Omnify, you can provide a description of safety precautions to be followed before entering the premises. You can also curate safety guidelines on using shared objects, spaces, etc., for the attendees. It will help them in reducing the risk of infection to a great extent.

Check below to get a step-by-step guide to specifying your facility guidelines to your customers even prior to them making a booking. 

This is how your onsite facility guidelines appear to your customers before making a booking.

4. Contactless Check-ins:

While these times can be challenging, using the right platforms with integrated tools can help businesses run seamlessly. Options like advanced booking, QR codes for facility access, etc., can help contact free check-ins and reduce infections. Unlike access cards, keys, or magnetic strips, it allows your customers to avoid touching shared spaces. With Omnify’s QR check-ins, your business and your customers can use contactless options for checking in a facility.

Read: QR Check-ins: Contactless, self check-ins for your clients.

5. Hybrid Structure:

Up until now, many businesses have successfully run their services online. Even if businesses have the option to open onsite services, they can still include tools to regulate visitors. For example, if a section of your employees could produce the same results while they work from home, it would be better that they continue that way. Similarly, you could schedule brainstorming or meetings online even when your employees work onsite to ensure social distancing. They could collaborate either at their workstation or outside. Businesses could do the same with customers where few of them could visit your studio while others can Zoom classes from the comfort of their homes. 

6. Manage Schedules:

One of the ways to ensure safety would be assigning different slots to your staff/trainers. With flexible work timings and rotations, fewer people would be present in your office. Time slots between two shifts can be used to sanitize the workplace. A business could do a task pool where a group of employees can pick up different tasks and complete them. If a work is assigned to a group, one employee can attend onsite while others continue to work from home. They can coordinate and schedule different hours for onsite work to ensure better productivity.

7. Workplace Wellness:

Last but not least, the stress of dealing with workload and pandemic is not easy. Primarily when you work onsite, that includes the potential risk of COVID-19. Working with limited resources and holding on to your mental health can become a kerfuffle. Some of the ways to reduce stress would be to introduce fun interactive sessions with other employees. Also, avoid reaching out to them during their off-hours. Businesses can also provide personal development classes or seminars to help their employees. 

8. COVID-19 Toolkits

While we talk about how you can prevent infection, let’s not neglect the procedure if COVID-19 knocks on your doorstep. As per WHO safety guidelines for the workplace, your onsite business should keep a list of contact numbers of local public health authorities. Essential amenities like disposable wipes, disinfectants, hand sanitizers, masks, etc., should be part of your Covid-19 preparation. 

With these tips, you can ensure to guard your onsite business affected with Covid-19 while it continues to go smoothly. With new software and policies in place, businesses can now revamp and experiment with their workplace. Adapting to new challenges is the mark of a dynamic workplace. It is all about finding the right balance of capacity and growth.

If you are trying to reopen your onsite business and need a reservation system, get in touch with Omnify OR Schedule a Demo.