Opening Up Together Toolkit

Business Signage

• Opening Up Together Sign / Poster – post at entrance
• Face Covering Sign – post at entrance
• Physical Distancing Sign – post at entrance
• Hand Washing Sign

• Make a Face Covering
• Sanitization Guide + Life of COVID on Surfaces
• Wellness Screening Example Video

The Adams County Together team answers business questions from how to market to customers online and create an online class to industry specific guidelines for opening up your place of business.

Phase 4 Industry Specific Guidelines

• Meetings & Special Events
• Indoor & Outdoor Recreation
• Indoor & Outdoor Dining
• Museums
• Zoos
• Theater & Performing Arts
• Youth & Recreational Sports
• Film Production
• Manufacturing
• Offices
• Retail
• Service Counters
• Health & Fitness Centers
• Personal Care Services
• Day Camps

Protecting employees and customers from exposure and prevent spread.

• At-Risk Employees + Accommodations
• Have adequate supplies for personal and workspace protection, cleaning & disinfecting
• Adams County, IL Resources
• Illinois Resources
• Center for Disease Control & Prevention

• Verbal – How employee is feeling or if they have a cough, fever, difficulty breathing.
• Temperature check – upon entry prior to shift. Screeners to wear PPE.
• Encourage any sick employees to stay home

• CDC Guidance for Businesses & Employers
• CDC Guidance on Mental Health and Wellness
• Healthy employees with sick household member, or contact with confirmed COVID-19 case should notify employer
• Follow CDC Guidance for reintegrating employees into the workplace

• Encourage employee self-isolation, contact healthcare provider and monitor symptoms,
• Inform HR and supervisor to receive return-to-work policy

• Inform employer and confidentially anyone who employee has had direct contact with of possible exposure
• Isolate until CDC guidance to end isolation is met, consulting with healthcare provider

•   Develop preparedness and response plan including identifying and isolating the sick,
•   Consider phased approach to bringing employees back, or staggered / flexible hours,
•   Minimize contact with virtual communications when possible,
•   Limit non-essential visitors,
•   Discontinue non-essential travel,
•   Provide communication and training for employees,
•   Develop routine sanitation plan for common touch areas & equipment,
•   Develop plan for recording accurate list of visitors,
•   Limit cash handling and encourage credit/debit card, or contactless payment,
•   Use as much curbside or outside interaction as possible,
•   Use by appointment option when possible & have customers wait in vehicles until appointment,
•   Implement separate operating hours for elderly and vulnerable customers if applicable,

• Wellness screening and monitor illness as needed (may include temperature checks),
• Encourage employees to stay home if sick & respiratory etiquette,
• Encourage face coverings when physical distancing is not possible,
• Provide at least 60% alcohol-based hand sanitizer,

•   Close or modify common areas where employees congregate,
•   Signage at doors regarding personal wellness, distancing practices and wearing face covering,
•   Signage for: handwashing, face coverings, other sanitation reminders,
•   Floor markings for 6’ physical distancing where possible lines or gathering occur,
•   Provide directional or traffic flow assistance,
•   Physical distance of workspace as permitted,
•   Sanitize & disinfect workspaces: office, bathroom, common area & shared equipment,
•   Install physical barriers when possible such as plastic guards,

•   Consider working at home if possible,
•   Do not use equipment of other employees,
•   Wellness screening and monitor illness as needed,
•   Wash hands, or use sanitizer throughout the day,
•   Required use of face coverings when physical distancing is not possible with training on usage,
•   Sanitize & disinfect workspaces: office, common area & shared equipment
•   Physical distance of workspace as permitted,
•   Be aware of social distancing requirements and encourage customers to observe,

•   Avoid common touch items and use disposable where possible
•   Wellness screening as needed (may include temperature checks),
•   Required use of face coverings when physical distancing is not possible with training on usage,
•   Sanitize & disinfect spaces throughout the day: office, bathroom common area & shared space,
•   Encourage use of hand sanitizer provided when entering.
•   Physical distance visuals: signage, marketing, mapping, markings, directional etc.,