This guide provides suggestions to help community banks when resuming more normal operations and person-to-person services. Every community bank will have its own circumstances driven by local pandemic conditions, state guidance, business requirements, and the needs of your local communities.
Key considerations will include the emotional state of your employees, how to protect personnel, mitigate instances of COVID-19 exposure or outbreak, sanitizing areas, legal liability, and coordination with CDC, Federal, State or local guidelines.
When returning to the office or opening branches, please follow relevant CDC, Federal, State and local guidelines, which includes but is not limited to: