Protocol Promise wants to help you and your small business understand what you need to provide a safe and healthy environment for your customers and employees.

Gavin Newsom's Blueprint For a Safer Economy

A new blueprint for business sector re-opening was unveiled by Governor Newsom on August 28, 2020, which includes a color-coded, tiered system that will use two metrics to measure the novel coronavirus: spread rate and test positivity percentage.
 
The tiers are designated by four colors: purple (widespread), red (substantial), orange (moderate) and yellow (minimal with the lowest restrictions). Los Angeles is in the purple tier and Orange County is currently in a blended purple/red tier. With numbers trending in the right direction, Orange County is on track to transition to the red tier sometime in September October 2020, however, Los Angeles remains in the purple tier.
 
Counties must remain at each tier for a minimum of 21 days. The State’s new website, www.COVID19.ca.gov, will track the metrics, show an interactive map and list business sectors open by each county.

As California reopens, every business will need to create a safer, low-risk environment. Protocol Promise will help you manage your business to follow the guidance to protect your customers and employees.

Follow the Employer Playbook for a Safe Reopening to help plan and prepare for reopening your business.

The playbook includes detailed information on:

• When and how an employer must report a COVID-19 positive employee.

• What is defined as an outbreak.

• Guidance for employers who may be considering whether to suspend operations due to COVID-19 spread in the workplace.

Wearing a mask or face covering is required statewide in public or common spaces. Employers must provide face coverings to workers, or must reimburse workers for the reasonable cost of obtaining them. Find all requirements and exceptions to these rules in the guidance on this page below.

The industry-specific guidance applies to businesses statewide. All businesses and facilities must follow the items listed here before reopening.

Visit the California Department of Public Health website HERE to find the guidance for your industry, business, event, or activity.

• Review it completely

• Perform a detailed risk assessment and create a worksite-specific protection plan.

• Train employees on how to limit the spread of COVID-19. This includes how to Screen Employees for Symptoms and when to stay home.

• Set up individual control measures and screenings.

• Put disinfection protocols in place.

• Establish physical distancing guidelines.

• Establish universal face covering requirements (with allowed exceptions). See California Department of Health Guidelines.

• Post your Protocol Promise Checklist so everyone can know the steps you’ve taken. You are encouraged to add more safety measures to the ones included in your industry’s guidance and your Protocol Promise Badge will include all of your "extra" steps you are taking!