How will you ensure all workers and volunteers know how and are able to keep themselves safe from exposure to Covid-19?
  • Pelee Kitchen will operate on grey or red protocols (if allowed) for the length of the Covid-19 pandemic. Pelee Kitchen is a sole-proprietorship take-out and custom order based food service business with no employees.
  • Proprietor/Volunteers will check their health before entering the building. If the proprietor contacts Covid-19 Pelee Kitchen will be temporally closed.  
  • All volunteers will be given a health and safety speech on Basic Safety and Covid-19 protocols.
 Staying up to date
  • Pelee Kitchen is only offering take-out based food service during the Covid-19 pandemic. Customers are encouraged to call ahead to place their order. The customers will be given a personal designated time to pick up their order. The food will be delivered to the customers car. Masks must by worn by the proprietor/volunteer and the customer. Hands must be washed thoroughly after handling payment.
  • The proprietor will monitor the media for any major updates.
 Communication with Staff
  • The Covid-19 Safety plan will be on display in waterproof protective packing for easy cleaning to inform all who enter 1169 West Shore Road of the Covid Safety Protocols set in place by the kitchen tenant, “Pelee Kitchen.”
  • Volunteers will be informed and educated about the Pelee Kitchen Covid-19 safety plan.
 Staff/Volunteer Training
 Volunteers will be given a health and safety speech informing and educating them about the health and safety protocols outlines in the Pelee Kitchen Covid-19 safety plan.
  • Pelee Kitchen will not be offering indoor dining through the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • All touched surfaces will be wiped down with bleach water at the end and beginning of each shift. Including the telephone and doorknobs.
  • Masks must be worn by the proprietor/volunteer and customer when the food is delivered to the car in the back parking lot.
  • Hands must be washed thoroughly after each payment/delivery transaction.
 Communication with Customers
  • Customers are encouraged to call Pelee Kitchen to place their order. They will be given a designated time to pick up their order to ensure social distancing.
  • The customer will be informed of Pelee Kitchen’s Covid-19 safety protocols when they place their order on the phone.
  • Information about Pelee Kitchen’s Covid-19 Safety Plan will be posted on the Pelee Kitchen’s facebook page, “Pelee Kitchen” and online on the website owned by the sole proprietor www.carolynhardysurrealism.com.
  • Menus are available to be taken off-site and are in waterproof packaging for easy cleaning and disinfection. Menus will be used in rotation.
 How will you screen for Covid-19?
  • Every Wednesday morning the proprietor will check Ontario.ca and listen to the local media for any major updates.
  • The proprietor will monitor all personal relations and restrict unessential travel.
  • Proprietor/Volunteer will complete the Ontario Covid-19 screening tool for workplaces each day before their shift.
 Screening Visitors
  • “Masks Mandatory” and “Do Not Enter if you are Sick” signs will be posted on all doors.
  • Pelee Kitchen is renting the commercial kitchen located Pelee Legion Branch # 403 at 1169 West Shore Road. Non-Pelee Kitchen Visitors are the responsibly of Pelee Legion Branch # 403.
  • Visitors will be required to wear masks at all times.
  • The names and dates of Visitors and Volunteers who enter the legion while Pelee Kitchen is in operation will be recorded.
  • Visitors and Volunteers will be asked the questions in the Ontario Covid-19 Screening School for Workplaces, the date and time, name, contact details, note of screening details, and nature of the visit will be recorded.
 Screening Customers
  • Pelee Kitchen will only be offering take-out food service until the end of the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Customers are to remain outside the building while they wait for their food and wear their mask while speaking to the masked Pelee Kitchen representative.
 How will control the risk of transmission in your workplace?
  • Pelee Kitchen will only be offering takeout based food service until the end of the pandemic. Pelee Kitchen does not encourage or welcome any customers to enter the building.
  • All volunteers and the proprietor will be screened regularly for Covid-19.
  • Visitors will have their information and nature of visit collected for monitoring.
  • Pelee Kitchen hopes that all will be respectful of the decision to only offer takeout food services during the pandemic.
 
Source control masking using personal protective equipment
  • Masks are mandatory to be worn during social interaction.
  • Masks are mandatory to be worn during food delivery.
  • When approaching a car for delivery the delivery person will stop 6 feet away from the car if the customer is not wearing a mask. The delivery person will ask the customer to put on a mask, and ensure they do put on a mask before they proceed with the transaction.
  • Clean, new, masks are available for use on site at Pelee Kitchen.
 Transmission from surfaces and objects
  • Commonly used surfaces including phone, doorknobs, fridge doors will be wiped down with bleach water at the beginning and end of each shift.
  • Hands will washed thoroughly after each cash transaction.
 Ventilation and airflow.
  • The screened windows will be opened in the morning and when the heat or air conditioning isn't on to promote air flow.
 What will you do if there is a potential case, or suspected exposure to, Covid-19 at your workplace? Process for a confirmed case of Covid-19 in the workplace
  • Pelee Kitchen is a sole-proprietorship business with no employees. If the proprietor contacts covid-19 Pelee Kitchen will be closed until a covid test comes back negative.
  • At the event of a confirmed case covid-19 a public notice will be made on the “Pelee Kitchen” facebook page to inform the public.
  • At the event of a confirmed to covid-19 in the workplace The Township of Pelee will be notified.
 How will you manage any new risks caused by changes to the way you operate your business?
  • The concept behind the operation of Pelee Kitchen was born during the covid pandemic. The operation of Pelee Kitchen is designed to work safely with all covid protocols. Pelee Kitchen will only be offering takeout food during the covid pandemic. The proprietor feels that this is safer for everyone involved and less confusing for the customers.
 ​How will you make sure the plan is working?
  • Keeping the proprietor, volunteers, customers, and island residents safe while offering a chance for Patrons of Pelee Island to receive delicious takeout food is Pelee Kitchen’s main concern.
  • We are trying to maintain continuation of the zero covid case count on Pelee Island by offering zero opportunity for the covid germ to be spread through the takeout food services offered by Pelee Kitchen.
  • We will know the plan is working by the maintenance of the zero case count on Pelee Island.