The first is an online portal to connect Washington employers with `Made in Washington' manufacturers of personal protective equipment (PPE.) The second feature is a toolkit for small businesses that can help them prepare their locations for reopening and communicate new health and safety rules with both employees and customers.
This site is free to use for all Washington businesses. Please share it with your members today.
"As more counties move to Phase 2 of the state’s Safe Start plan and as more parts of Washington’s economy come back to life, we know employers will need help locating personal protective equipment like face masks, gloves and hand sanitizer," AWB President Kris Johnson said in a news release today.
The website includes connections to about 40 Washington manufacturers today. Washington manufacturers wishing to be included in the database are invited to submit information at www.bit.ly/awbppeform.
The website also includes a back to business toolkit for small and medium-sized employers. The toolkit includes templates that can be downloaded and customized to create a Safe Work Plan, signage, training videos, social media content and floor stickers to remind people of social distancing, among other resources.
The website is the result of AWB's Rebound and Recovery Task Force, a group of nearly three dozen business leaders from diverse industries and locations across Washington. The task force is chaired by Michelle Hege, president and CEO of DH, and Tim Schauer, CEO of MacKay Sposito.
Please feel free to copy and paste the message below to get the word out to your members. The message begins here:
Dear members,
The Association of Washington Business has created a new website to help employers safely reopen.
The website is located at www.reboundandrecovery.org. It's free and open for all Washington employers to use.
The website contains two major features with employee and customer safety top of mind.
The first is an online portal to connect Washington employers with `Made in Washington' manufacturers of personal protective equipment (PPE.) The second feature is a toolkit for small businesses that can help them prepare their locations for reopening and communicate new health and safety rules with both employees and customers.
"As more counties move to Phase 2 of the state’s Safe Start plan and as more parts of Washington’s economy come back to life, we know employers will need help locating personal protective equipment like face masks, gloves and hand sanitizer," AWB President Kris Johnson said in a news release today.
The website includes connections to about 40 Washington manufacturers today. Washington manufacturers wishing to be included in the database are invited to submit information at www.bit.ly/awbppeform.
The website also includes a back to business toolkit for small and medium-sized employers. The toolkit includes templates that can be downloaded and customized to create a Safe Work Plan, signage, training videos, social media content and floor stickers to remind people of social distancing, among other resources.
“This is intended to be a very practical, useful tool for small businesses that aren’t sure where to go to find out what procedures and practices they need to implement, or how best to communicate the steps they have taken to their employees and customers,” Johnson added.
The website is the result of AWB's Rebound and Recovery Task Force, a group of nearly three dozen business leaders from diverse industries and locations across Washington. The task force is chaired by Michelle Hege, president and CEO of DH, and Tim Schauer, CEO of MacKay Sposito.
Thank you for all you do to support Washington's economic recovery.
