keeping employees safe

Watch Wet Bulb Temperatures

News programs normally report
on dry bulb temperatures.

That isn’t the temperature
that kills people.

Wet bulb temperatures
kill people.

Wet bulbs temperatures
factor in
humidity.

Anything above 35C/95F
is dangerous
for humans.

Our perspiration doesn’t
evaporate.
Our cooling systems
break down.

It doesn’t matter
if we’re super fit
or young
or wearing sunscreen.

We could die.
Our employees could die.
Our customers could die.

If your business
is outside-based,
watch the wet bulb temperatures.

(That is sometimes
reported on
as the ‘feels like’ temperature.)

Take action
if the temperatures
reach the danger zone.

Masks And Hand Sanitizer Are Here To Stay

With Monkeypox ramping up
and COVID not at all ramping down,
it is essential
that businesses,
including the small businesses
you and I are building,
attempt
to keep customers
and employees safe.

The easiest way
to do that
is to have hand sanitizer
and masks always available
at the front door.

Keep those containers
filled up.

Factor those expenses
into your financials.

Assume you will supply
masks and hand sanitizer
forever.

Because you likely WILL
do that.

These are the bare minimum
now
for businesses
going forward.

And they convey
that you care.

We Aren’t ‘No One’

Yesterday, I posted
about the precautions
we can take
to tackle the seemingly never ending
barrage of viruses.

I was told
‘No one worries
about the pandemic anymore.’

We should ALWAYS worry
about placing employees
and customers in danger.

We should worry because
that is a caring, human thing
to do.

But we should also worry,
as business owners,
because we could get
our a$$es sued off
if people come to harm
in our businesses.

The lawsuits
involving COVID
might not be happening very often now
but I suspect
they WILL happen in the future.

We aren’t ‘no one’s.
And we aren’t ‘the average person’.

We’re business owners.

Don’t be careless
with other people’s lives.

We’re Ready

There seems to be reports
of impending new pandemics
everyday
– New Variants of COVID,
Monkeypox, TB, Ebola,
Polio.

It can be frightening,
especially for business builders
who want to keep
our customers and employees safe.

The good news,
however,
is we’re ready for this.

Most of the precautions
we have installed
for COVID
– wearing masks, hand washing/disinfecting,
social distancing
– prevent or slow
the spread of these new threats.

Keep disinfectant bottles filled.
Have masks available.
Encourage our employees/partners
to wear them.

And we should
survive all this.

If You Have Employees…

If we have employees,
our highest priority task
is to keep them safe.

If that means
literally
standing between them
and danger,
that is where
we should be positioned.

Of course,
we should try to do
all we can
to keep our employees
AND
ourselves
out of danger.
We should put
safeguards in place.

But if those safeguards fail,
as business builders,
we are the people
who should be placed
in most danger.

If we are unwilling
to accept that reality,
the solution is simple
– we build businesses
that don’t require onsite employees.

That is what I’ve done
with the Romance Novel Writing Business.
I don’t have any employees
and the people I partner with
work from their own homes.

If we have employees,
their safety comes first.