PLEASE NOTE: The Southwestern Public Health region is currently in the Orange-Restrict level of Ontario’s COVID-19 Response Framework. Learn more by visiting the Government of Ontario website. Although the stay-at-home order is no longer in effect, staying home is still the best way to protect yourself and others. Trips outside the home should only be for essential reasons and families should not visit with any other household or allow visitors in their homes.
If you have questions about impacts to your business, call the Stop the Spread Business Information Line at 1-888-444-3659.
Face covering information for businesses
- Provincial Face Covering Information
- MOH Letter of Instruction Regarding Face Coverings - Revised November 23, 2020
- Memo: Message to Businesses Regarding Revision of Letter of Instruction
- Mandatory Face Covering FAQ
- Signage: Face Covering Entrance Poster (full colour)
- Signage: Face Covering Entrance Poster (black & white)
- Signage: Simple Face Covering Poster
- Signage: Face Covering Exemption Poster
- How to choose an effective non-medical mask
COVID-19 Toolkit for Workplaces
General guidance documents and resources for your workplace
- Enhanced Provincewide Shutdown Information (Ontario)
- Screening
- COVID-19 Screening Tool for Workers (Ministry of Health)
- COVID-19 Online Worker and Employee Screening (Ministry of Health)
- COVID-19 Screening Tool for Patrons (Ministry of Health)
- Signage Questions for Businesses and Organizations (Ministry of Health)
- Visitor Screening Sign
- Develop your COVID-19 workplace safety plan
- Video: Preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace (English)
- Video: Public Health Guidelines Webinar for Businesses (SWPH)
- Resources to Prevent COVID-19 in the Workplace (Ministry of Health)
- Guidance: Public Health Principles for Public Spaces (SWPH)
- Information for Workplaces and COVID-19 (SWPH)
- COVID-19 Guidance for Workplace Outbreaks (Ministry of Health)
- COVID-19 Guidance for Workplace Outbreak Management (SWPH)
- Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety: COVID-19 Guidance and Tip Sheets (CCOHS)
- Guidance for Public Washrooms (SWPH)
- Guidance for Office Environments (SWPH)
- Guidance for Physical Barriers (SWPH)
- COVID-19 Guidance for Reducing Risk from Contaminated Surfaces
- Poster: Keeping Businesses Safe During COVID-19 (SWPH)
- Infographic: Keeping Businesses Safe During COVID-19 (SWPH)
- Bulletin: Public Health Guidance and Regulations Related to OHSA and Reopening Ontario Act (SWPH)
Personal Service Settings (PSS)
- Guidance for Personal Care Services Sector (Workplace Safety and Prevention Services)
- Guidelines for Personal Service Settings (SWPH)
- Hair Salon Workplace Checklist (SWPH)
- Tattoo and Body Piercing Workplace Checklist (SWPH)
- Nail Salon Workplace Checklist (SWPH)
- Public Health Ontario: Guide to infection prevention and control in personal service settings
Food Premises
- Guidance for Food Premises (SWPH)
- Guidance for Physical Barriers (SWPH)
- COVID-19 Data Collection Notice (SWPH)
- Food Premise Poster – Help Stop the Spread of COVID-19 (SWPH)
Retail Settings
- Guidance for Retail Settings (SWPH)
Fitness Facilities
- Guidance for Sports and Recreational Fitness Activities (SWPH)
- Guidance for Gyms, Fitness Studios and Community Centres (SWPH)
- Guidance for Facilities for Sports and Recreational Fitness Activities (Ontario)
Taxis and Ride Shares
If you are looking for a guidance document specific to your workplace that has not been listed here, please refer to:
- Resources to Prevent COVID-19 in the Workplace (Ministry of Health Guidance Documents)
- Public Services Health and Safety Association
- Workplace Safety North
- Workplace Safety and Prevention Services
- Infrastructure Health and Safety Association
Seasonal Farm Workers
- Video: Preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace (Spanish)
- Signage: Infographic: Physical Distancing for Farm Workers (English)
- Signage: Infographic: Physical Distancing for Farm Workers (Spanish)
- Signage: Physical Distancing Poster (Spanish)
For more information on managing seasonal housing, visit our seasonal housing page.
Class Order, Section 22 (for agricultural farms)
- Class Order - Amended July 10, 2020 4pm
- Fact Sheet - Amended July 10, 2020 4pm
- Media Release
- Media Release # 2
Signage
- Physical Distancing Poster
- How to Practice Safe Physical Distancing
- Wash Your Hands Poster
- Break Poster (Ontario)
- Lunch Poster (Ontario)
- Staying Healthy Brochure
- If You’re Sick, Don’t Visit
- How to Wash Your Hands Poster
- COVID-19 Mental Health Poster
- Ontario: Posters for Your Workplace (variety of topics, languages)
Useful Resources
- Visitor Log Contract Tracing Information
- Meal and Break Periods at Work During COVID-19 (Ontario)
- Ministry of Health: COVID-19 Support for Workers website
- Ministry of Health: Support for Businesses including the Business Information Line
- Infographic: Coping with Stress during the COVID-19 Outbreak
Infection Prevention and Control
- Mixing of Bleach Solution for Disinfecting
- Southwestern Public Health Infection Control Resources & Information
- Workplace PPE Supplier Directory
- Cleaning & Disinfection in Public Spaces
- What you need to know about face coverings and face masks
- Video: How to properly put on and take off a cloth mask
- Alternative PPE Supplier List
Financial Relief
- Government of Ontario COVID-19 Support for Businesses
- Community Futures Oxford Business Resource Centre Regional Relief Recovery Fund
- Elgin Business Resource Centre Regional Relief Recovery Fund
Get more COVID-19 information
- COVID-19 dashboard
- COVID-19 general information
- COVID-19 information for community settings
- COVID-19 information for schools and child care centres
- COVID-19 assessment centres in Oxford, Elgin and St. Thomas
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