Social distancing protocols and other requirements for businesses and offices

(1) For the purposes of preventing, controlling, containing and suppressing the spread of the infectious disease COVID-19, every business, office or establishment allowed to operate under these Regulations, including a government office, shall– (a) abide by social distancing protocols; and (b) ensure that every employee wears a face mask or other face (nose and mouth) covering. (2) If the square footage of a business, office or establishment, including a government office, allows for a person to maintain a distance of six feet from other persons, that business, office or establishment, including a government office shall– (a) ensure that all customers and staff maintain a distance of not less than six feet in or outside their business, office or establishment; (b) determine the number of persons that may be permitted in that business, or establishment, including a government office, at any one time, provided that the determined number, which shall not be more than fifty per centum of its capacity; (c) place distance markers six feet apart, indicating where a customer must stand in a line at a check out point; or (d) place distance markers six feet apart on the outside of the establishment, indicating where a customer must stand while waiting to enter the business or office. (3) Every department store, hardware store, grocery store, dry goods store, shop and market shall employ a Peace Officer for every floor of that department store, hardware store, grocery store, dry goods store, shop and market if the square footage of that department store, hardware store, grocery store, dry goods store, shop and market is greater than two thousand square feet. (4) A person employed as a Peace Officer shall– (a) be a Justice of the Peace; (b) ensure compliance with these Regulations by22 (i) the owner of every department store, hardware store, grocery store, dry goods store, and shop; (ii) the proprietor of the land where the market is situated; (iii) every person accessing services of the department store, hardware store, grocery store, dry goods store, shop and market; (c) be paid an honorarium by the employer for the performance of his functions as a Peace Officer under these Regulations. (5) Notwithstanding subregulation (1), every BPO company or business allowed to operate under these Regulations shall– (a) maintain, at any given time, a number of employees that is proportionate to the square footage of the BPO company or business; (b) observe social distancing protocols; (c) ensure that every employee wears a face mask or other face (nose and mouth) covering; (d) install hand wash stations at the entrance and within the BPO company or business; (e) allow not more than two persons per table in the lunch of that BPO company or business; (f) limit the seating capacity of the lunch room of that BPO company or business to fifty per centum. 23 (6) Every BPO company or business allowed to operate under these Regulations shall install or appoint a special internal auditor for COVID-19 who shall submit a written weekly report to the Ministry responsible for health detailing– (a) the number of employees of the BPO company or business and the number of employees who presented themselves to work during the reported week; (b) the number of floors being utilized for the operation of the BPO company or business; (c) the number of supervisors per floor during the reported week; (d) the number of employees who call in sick and who are working on a rotational basis; (e) the protocols being implemented and observed by the BPO company or business; and (f) any other information required by the Ministry responsible for health. (7) The Ministry responsible for health or an officer of the security forces may carry out spot checks and inspections of any business, office or establishment allowed to operate under this regulation to ensure compliance with these Regulations.