4485 Plainfield Avenue Northeast,
Grand Rapids,
49525
Michigan,
United States
1. In returning to work next week it has been brought to the employees attention that the employer is not allowing time for proper sanitization between clients. Clients are being booked back to back; employees have no time for breaks or lunches in some cases, and have no time to properly clean between appointments. This endangers both employees and clients during this ongoing COVID crisis. In the salon and spa employees work with all parts of the body; mucus membranes and blood born pathogens included. Any solution that has the ability to properly sanitize takes a full 10 minutes of contact to work, minimum. When employees are requesting time to properly sanitize, they are being told "no" by upper management. Employees do not feel comfortable or safe returning to work under these types of conditions. Safety should come first. Here is a detailed breakdown of the issue: Each service allows for "hands on time," and then usually 5-10 minutes of "turn over time," where employees are able to clean their workspace. This is a time crunch under even normal circumstances. Now with fighting and trying to prevent the spread of COVID and the type of sanitization that is required to keep people safe, 5-10 minutes is no longer enough time. There are also many services that have NO TURN OVER TIME added to the service time. Pre-COVID that was not an issue, but it is now. The employer when approached with the issue, was not willing to correct the issue.
Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-06-09 | Symptoms: Mucus in Stools
