Memo re COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
We value you, our volunteers. Your work is critical in getting healthy food out to vulnerable populations, and your wellbeing is important to us. If you feel sick, please stay home to reduce the risk of spreading illness. If you need to cancel a volunteer shift, please contact our Volunteer Coordinators at volunteers@regionalfoodbank.net. We have taken precautions to help ensure staff and volunteers stay safe during their shifts.
These precautions include:
- Requiring staff and volunteers wear masks. VOLUNTEERS SHOULD BRING THEIR OWN FACE MASKS
- Prohibiting volunteers from coming in if they are not well, have a fever, or have recently travelled to restricted areas
- Discouraging volunteers age 70 and older, those with compromised immune systems, and those with underlying illnesses from volunteering to comply with Governor Cuomo’s Matilda’s Law
- Reducing the number of people per shift
- Setting up volunteer work spaces to allow for 6-feet between people
- Having volunteers sanitize and glove their hands when entering the building
- Stationing gloves, hand sanitizer, and disinfecting wipes in volunteer areas for frequent use
- Sanitizing high-touch points every two hours and at the end of each shift, including scales and touch-pads, tables, clipboards, pens, markers, sign-in consoles, door handles, broom handles, tape guns, and box cutters
