[French] Overcoming COVID-19 challenges in service and retail settings

[French subtitles] As a service or retail worker, you face unique challenges in reducing your risk of COVID-19. Fortunately, there are some essential yet simple protective steps you can take to help keep yourself and others safe, despite the uncertainty of customers’ vaccination status or infection.

1. Comply with workplace health and safety policies
2. Be sure to regularly evaluate your and your family’s health for signs and symptoms that may indicate COVID-19.
3. If possible, use tabletop ordering and contactless point of sale technologies to limit close contact and increase the distance between you and others
4. Ensure that you correctly wear an effective and properly fitted mask indoors or within enclosed close-quarter spaces (for more information, watch:
5. When coughing or sneezing, keep your mask on. If you are not masked, either use a tissue or the inside of your elbow
6. Just before and after leaving work, always wash or sanitize your hands

To learn more about other ways to help ensure you reduce the spread of COVID-19 and help keep yourself and others safe at work, visit AIHA’s Pandemics Resource Center (

This educational initiative was funded by a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Grant # 1 NU50CK000583-01- 00) to the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) ( AIHA is collaborating with Integrated Bioscience and Built Environment Consortium (IBEC) ( on this initiative. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents of this resource center do not necessarily represent the policies or views of CDC or HHS and should not be considered an endorsement by the Federal Government