COVID-19 Information Resources

Business Resources

• West Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission’s Disaster Recovery Microloan Program

• MN Chamber of Commerce: Keeping Workplaces Safe & Healthy

• COVID-19 Safety and Health Standards, Control & Prevention  An overview of information for workers and employers about the evolving coronavirus outbreak. Includes links to OSHA standards, control and prevention, by Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

• Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation Included on this page are resources available to Wisconsin businesses from WEDC and other local, state and federal agencies. You are encouraged to visit this page regularly, as we plan to update this directory as new information and resources become available

• US Dept. of Labor The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has resources to help employers and workers prepare for and respond to coronavirus in the workplace.

• The Institute for Business & Entrepreneurship  The Institute for Business & Entrepreneurship has created this page to anchor important information for our clients amid quickly changing conditions and unprecedented measures put into place during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Ways to Retain Your Customers During the Coronavirus Outbreak Even if you need to close due to health and safety concerns, there are ways to keep serving your customers during the coronavirus outbreak.

WMC and Wisconsin Safety Council would like to share these Best Practices from the business community:

• Ban in-person meetings (internal or external) and employee convening’s (formal or informal) of any size. Employee communication handled virtually wherever possible.
• Employees scanned regularly on-site for body temperature (contingent on availability of scanning devices, which are in short supply due to acute global demand).
• Immediate workflow audit that removes instances of employees being within 6’ of each other.
• Reduction of on-site work hours to minimum needed to sustain operations.
• Staggered shifts and work hours to minimize on-site human presence at a given time.
• Staggered use of all shared spaces, including bathrooms, breakrooms and lunchrooms.
• Staggered facility entry and exit procedures.
• Mandatory work at home for all employees except those necessary for baseline production and logistics functions.
• Sanitary processes implemented throughout facility (soap, hand sanitizer, single-use gloves, doors propped open, hands-free capabilities, no shared food).
• Blue tape marking of surfaces that receive frequent human contact; disinfection of these surfaces multiple times daily.
• International travel ban – business and personal.
• Domestic business travel ban except for critical operations (with senior management approval). Domestic personal travel requires employee to self-quarantine for 14 days and be symptom-free before returning to work.
• Any employee returning from a Level 2 or 3 CDC travel country must self-quarantine for 14 days and be symptom-free before returning to work.
• No deliveries except those that support production activities or emergency building maintenance.
• No visitors (including suppliers and customers) except those approved by senior management.
• Employees must immediately report symptoms associated with COVID-19 exposure.
• Employees must report contact with any person who tests positive for COVID-19; employee must subsequently self-quarantine for 14 days and be symptom-free before returning to work.