VIDEO CONFERENCE: Business after the COVID-19 Re-Opening

Business after the COVID-19 Re-Opening: Sailing into Uncharted Waters

Presented by Dennis A. Terpin, Ph.D., O.H.S.T, EMT-P, Retired Senior Industrial Hygienist/ Emergency Manager at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Master Level Instructor FEMA/DHS

This current wave of the Pandemic will soon be gone. Are we prepared for a second wave? We have no idea. What we do know is COVID-19 has changed the way people eat, work, shop, communicate, entertain and socialize. These changes of habits will change the way many business and industries operate. COVID-19 entered our lives at a time of record growth and low unemployment. The service industry accounted for nearly 84 percent. U.S. private-sector employment, 95 percent of those jobs disappeared in one month.

COVID-19 has devastated businesses that depend on social gatherings – restaurants, cinemas, theaters, hotels, airlines, gyms, shopping centers, dance studios and many other businesses.  COVID-19 is the cause of over 350,000 stores that are now temporarily closed, accounting for nearly 60 percent of retail square footage. Experts claim 25-50 percent of small business will either not open or will close soon after re-opening.


These new challenges include evaluating the level of risk to our employees, achieving a level of employee and customer protection and trust, social distancing concerns, upscale human resources responsibility, OSHA required training, and other challenges that may be present when Sailing into Uncharted Waters.

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