Tree Care Safety Briefing: How to MacGuyver your Buff? Face Mask In Public Order
Channel: Gene Basler
Date: 24/04/2020

How to MacGuyver your Buff !!??

The Harris County Face Cover Order
Safety Briefing Friday 2020-04-24
1. Please put your name or nickname in the comments section as well as those of your crew mates, as documentation that you attended this briefing.
2. First of all I want to say that everyone is doing a great job of keeping their spirits up, and keeping your distance from each other, and staying on top of the staggered start times, and keeping up hygiene protocols. Our customers have noticed. 
3. Special congratulations to Danny for once again having the cleanest cab!
4. Honorable mention go to Alberto and Schaeffer for their cab cleanliness!
5. And continued thanks to Alexzandar for coming in early every day and disinfecting the padlocks, door knobs, light switches, pull chains, truck handles, flush handles, faucet handles, garden hose attachments etc.
6. A quick note about the face mask order that starts Monday. 
7. Medical masks coming from Home Office. Be patient. 
8. For the moment we have plenty of buffs, but if you don't care for them we could run out very quickly. 
9. Put your names on them. 
10. Take them home and wash them. Simply hand wash them with soapy water and hang them up to dry. They'll be dry in the morning. 
11. They are hot! And I don't want you guys overheating. It's forecast to be 91 today. And And the forecast highs for next week are from 86 to 91.
12. I personally don't like having mine around my neck. It's too itchy. So take a look at my setup. It's not ideal but my ears are sore from wearing the homemade mask all week. I actually had this binder clip on the back of my neck all day and evening yesterday, and it didn't really bother me. Let me know if you wanna McGuyver your Buff and I'll getcha some handy office supplies!
13. Remember on Day One of the Harris County Stay-Home-Work-Safe order? The neighbor lady called the police? Well, we should anticipate something similar on Monday. It won't be our clients giving us a hard time; it'll be neighbors and passersby. And you all know there are more than the usual number of passersby. Because everybody's out walking right now. This can be a good thing, as neighbors are seeing us working and calling in to the office. The job Crew 1 did last week was the result of a neighbor who saw us working on her street.
14. If you want to take them off for a bit while in the back yard, I won't say anything. But when you're up at the street, running your chipper and working in the front yard, we need to show all the neighbors that we're serious about protocol and we want this to be over with just as quickly as everybody else. 
15. Post your comments about what face coverings are working for you, and share your positive experiences. 
16. Thanks and stay safe!