CORONAVIRUS UPDATE – 930 am

Temporary closure of the SCB office.

Considering the Prime Ministers statement on 23rd March, the Scottish Craft Butchers have no choice but to close the office until the Government state it is safe to reopen.

This is to ensure the safety of all our office staff.

We will be working from home and can still be contacted via mobile and e-mail.

Gordon King: – 0797524313 [email protected]

Bruce McCall: – 07834490922 [email protected]

Claire Simpson: – 07926332977 [email protected]

Government Statement and Staff Guidance

Government Statement

People will only be allowed to leave their home for the following very limited purposes:

· shopping for basic necessities, as infrequently as possible

· one form of exercise a day – for example a run, walk, or cycle – alone or with members
of your household;

· any medical need, to provide care or to help a vulnerable person; and

· travelling to and from work, but only where this is absolutely necessary and cannot be
done from home.

STAFF GUIDANCE

We appreciate that many of you and your staff will be exhausted given the recent hectic trading. The mental and physical health of yourselves, and your staff is very important, and in fact critical looking forward. Our suggestions for your staff:

We strongly encourage you to implement physical distancing measures with your staff. This includes working with sufficient distance between individual staff members, split shifts to reduce the number of staff working at one time, and not allowing staff to take tea and lunch breaks together.
You should encourage staff to travel to work solo, and if they must travel share, create as much distance as possible between each other in the vehicle.

TRADING & CUSTOMER MEASURES

Each of you will of course be making your own decisions on how you trade in the coming days and weeks. Some suggestions are:

Look at opening just four or five days per week. Whatever days you decide, it would be advisable to stick with those days consistently e.g. Tuesday to Friday or Wednesday to Sunday etc.
We encourage you to allow only a certain number of customers in the shop at one time, and you may want to put tape on the ground outside where they would line up to ensure a safe distance is kept between customers.

We encourage you to re-allocate a staff member to manage the flow and number of customers in the store, and to identify if anyone looks particularly unwell.
Keep up your social media and website presence – more than ever, your customers will be heading online to find out more from you.
Your customers will completely understand, and you may find your business runs more efficiently than ever before.

However, we want to be clear, all these are just suggested courses of action. Ultimately you know your business and your customers best and will make your own decisions.

Delivery/Pick up only service.

The current situation is rapidly changing, we should be aware that we may have to move to a delivery only service and adapt as guided by the government.

You should plan for this happening.

There are obvious benefits of going over to this service if we must, or you decide it is best for your staff and business. The main benefit is the protection and safety of your staff.

You will be able to manage the stock and staff available to you and control the risks that may affect them.

A strict collection only service offers the chance to maintain a local service and control the numbers in your premises.

A delivery service gives you the chance to maintain supplies to those who are self-isolating and are vulnerable.

Payments should be contactless where possible. If pre-ordered and paid for, prior to collection or delivery, then this is reducing risk.

The Scottish Craft Butchers office in Perth is now closed following government guidelines.

We will be available to our members to answer any queries via email or by mobile phone and will be available out of office hours for any members wanting to contact us.

Our contact details are below

Gordon King: – [email protected] 07917524313

Bruce McCall: [email protected] 07857698322