{"id":126,"date":"2020-04-23T10:20:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T14:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/?p=126"},"modified":"2023-01-19T16:58:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T21:58:26","slug":"employee-training-in-a-period-of-physical-distancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/2020\/04\/23\/employee-training-in-a-period-of-physical-distancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee training in a period of physical distancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maintaining physical distance is an important step in limiting the spread of COVID-19. But how does physical distancing work on a farm when new employees need training, coaching and oversight?<\/p>\n<p>Put your cell phones to good use&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Take photos and short videos of the best practices to provide employees with information while respecting physical distance.<\/li>\n<li>Using a video app (e.g. Marco Polo, WhatsApp, etc.) allows you to share video messages with your crew &#8211; you can customize this app to share updates throughout the day with different crews.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If cell phones are not an option&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get your operating procedures manual out and make sure it&#8217;s up-do-date<\/li>\n<li>Use signage and posters &#8211; keep instructions simple and brief &#8211; supplement with photos if possible<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/files\/2020\/04\/pickingeggplant-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-134 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/files\/2020\/04\/pickingeggplant-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/files\/2020\/04\/pickingeggplant-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/files\/2020\/04\/pickingeggplant-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/files\/2020\/04\/pickingeggplant-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/files\/2020\/04\/pickingeggplant-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/files\/2020\/04\/pickingeggplant-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/files\/2020\/04\/pickingeggplant-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/files\/2020\/04\/pickingeggplant-1080x720.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have to train in close physical spaces&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use face masks and gloves when in group settings<\/li>\n<li>Keep the groups small in size to limit the number of people gathering together<\/li>\n<li>Avoid handing pieces of equipment or paper from person-to-person<\/li>\n<li>Provide each employee with a small notebook and pen so they can keep their own notes<\/li>\n<li>Keep hand-washing stations clean and well-stocked<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are entering a new period of food handling during pandemics. Many of the changes you make now may be standard practice going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maintaining physical distance is an important step in limiting the spread of COVID-19. But how does physical distancing work on a farm when new employees need training, coaching and oversight? Put your cell phones to good use&#8230; Take photos and short videos of the best practices to provide employees with information while respecting physical distance. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/2020\/04\/23\/employee-training-in-a-period-of-physical-distancing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Employee training in a period of physical distancing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-featured-image"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Peabody","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/author\/mpeabody\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aglabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}