AT Scene Shop Response Plan

​The COVID-19 pandemic changed everything. The Alliance Theatre Scene Shop was shut down, shop crew eventually put on furlough and all essential staff began working from home beginning in March, 2020. The drive to re-open as soon as possible was ever present, and the only way to do that safely was to develop and implement a response plan. Developing this plan I collected guidelines and best practices from every resource I could think of and talked to friends and colleagues in shops all over the country about how they were looking at re-opening. I worked with the Alliance Theatre's parent company, the Woodruff Arts Center, to avoid legal pitfalls and fulfill base requirements, and departments all over campus to set up housekeeping, facilities maintenance, human resources, and IT service. I worked with my own management to set a date for returning to work that gave us the time we needed to re-organize and get everyone back to work safely.

The AT Scene Shop was the first Alliance department to return to in person work in September, 2020.​

Additional documentation

The response plan includes several documents that are not publicly available for legal reasons, including:
Comprehensive Overview
  • All work, coordination and documentation that should be completed to re-enter safely.
  • Dates and deadlines for completion.
Job Hazard Analysis
  • C-19 specific encompassing all spaces and typical day to day operations
Equipment and sanitation list and restock strategy
  • A list of all needed supplies
  • A compiled list of sources to ensure no gap in supply
End of day cleaning rotation and checklists
  • Established an end of day cleaning regimen.
  • Checklist by area (high touch, tool room, etc.)
  • A weekly assignment rotation for workers
Building Operations Procedures
  • Established needed maintenance arranged through campus facilities to re-open the shop building.
Incident Log
  • To facilitate Human Resources in contact tracing.​
Postings
  • A wide variety of informational and shop specific postings.

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