“We are thrilled that New Jersey businesses are continuing to make workplace safety and health a priority for their customers, staff and vendors,” said NJBIA President and CEO Michele Siekerka. “This is a rigorous course and having so many businesses pass muster should install confidence for all those who frequent these establishments.”

A Workplace Infectious Disease Prevention training course, administered by PeakPerformance, introduces businesses and their employees to the basic practices of identifying, reducing, eliminating and reporting hazards associated with their work. The best practices are derived from OSHA, CDC and WHO guidance.

Attendees work with instructors to develop workplace procedures and a documented plan. At the completion of the course, they submit their plan to be certified.

An NJBIA Healthy Business Certificate is then issued, along with a safety decal to display at the business location.

With a recent law enacted that creates a rebuttable presumption that essential employees who contract COVID-19 did so at work, NJBIA continues to urge businesses to have formal sanitation protocols in place as they reopen to the public.

“Protecting customers and employees is a priority for business owners,” Siekerka added. “With this new law that could result in increased worker’s compensation insurance costs, it’s even more incumbent for business owners to certify their best practices for a safe and healthy workplace.”

“The course offered valuable information to help us adjust to the new ‘normal’ we are facing as a business in regard to safety standards/protocols related to COVID-19,” said James Canning, owner of GoodSports USA, an indoor sports and family entertainment center in Wall Township.

“We feel the health and safety of both our employees and customers is one of our top priorities. We thank NJBIA for offering this certification!”

“Having this certificate and emblem in place for all of our employees and visitors to see brings a great amount of satisfaction and peace of mind,” said Joe Hoffman, vice president of environmental, health and safety at Chelton House, a food manufacturer and distributor in Swedesboro.

“This certification adds just another fundamental value of good things that we are doing at Chelten House during these trying times.”

The three-hour course is available to NJBIA members and nonmembers alike. For more information on the training course, click here.

For a training brochure, click here.

Some businesses which have received NJBIA Healthy Business certification include:

• ADM Tronics (Northvale)
• Advantage Career Institute Medical & Dental School (Eatontown)
• Allied Fire & Safety Equipment Company (Neptune)
• Altigro Benefit Services (Fairfield)
• Aquinas Healthcare (Springfield)
• Asbury Carbons (Asbury)
• Association Headquarters (Mount Laurel)
• Bergen & Passaic Respiratory Care (Clifton)
• Berje Inc. (Carteret)
• BLUSA Defense Manufacturing (Mount Laurel)
• Branning Automotive Group (Freehold)
• Bruker OST (Carteret)
• Carl Stahl Sava Industries, Inc. (Riverdale)
• Chelton House (Swedesboro)
• CME Associates (Parlin)
• Compass Wire Cloth Corporation (Vineland)
• Constantine Rossakis MD (Maywood)
• Consumer Product Testing Co. (Fairfield)
• Controlled Networks (Hackensack)
• Cranford Park Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center (Cranford)
• cyberThink, Inc. (Bridgewater)
• Denis NJ LLC (Fort Lee)
• Digital Color Concepts (Mountainside)
• Eagle’s Landing Day Camp (North Brunswick)
• Fire & Safety Services Ltd. (South Brunswick)
• FlexBiosys (Lebanon)
• Flavor & Fragrance Specialties (Mahwah)
• Girl Scouts of Central & Southern NJ (Cherry Hill)
• GoodSports USA (Wall Township)
• Ebin New York (Teterboro)
• eHealth Engagement (Paramus)
• Hoffman Services (Newark)
• Horiba Instruments (Piscataway)
• Immunomedics (Morris Plains)
• iPlay America (Freehold Township)
• iTi Tropicals (Lawrenceville)
• James Alexander Corporation (Blairstown)
• Kessler Foundation (East Hanover)
• Key Software Systems (Farmingdale)
• Kimmerle/Newman Architects (Morristown)
• Kinetics Industries (Trenton)
• Konica Minolta (Ramsey)
• Kumon Math and Reading Center (Howell)
• Lamatek, Inc. (West Deptford)
• LAN Associates (Midland Park)
• Larken Associates (Branchburg)
• Laundry Solutions of Mercer (Trenton)
• Liberty Mechanical Contractors (Newark)
• Logotech/Tadbik (Fairield)
• MC Medical Group (Cedar Grove)
• Methfessel & Werbel (Edison)
• Model Electronics (Ramsey)
• Monarch Eyewear (Trenton)
• Montana Mountain Enterprises (Mountainside)
• New Community Extended Care Facility (Newark)
• New Jersey Elder Law Center at Goldberg Law Group (Roseland)
• Operating Engineers Local 825 Benefit Funds (Springfield)
• Param Healthcare & IT Services (Iselin)
• Pennjersey Environmental Consulting (Milford)
• PRAB (New Brunswick)
• Precision Automation Company (Cherry Hill)
• Preferred Behavioral Health of New Jersey (Brick)
• Progressive Hydraulics (Saddle Brook)
• R.S. Phillips Steel (Vernon)
• Rehabilitation Specialists (Fair Lawn)
• Resources Real Estate (Shrewsbury)
• Riviera Produce Corporation (Englewood)
• Safran Aerosystems (Wall Township)
• Salson Logistics (Newark)
• Saphire & Albarran Architecture (Pennington)
• Sea Box (Cinnaminson)
• Senior Spirit of Roselle Park (Roselle Park)
• SOAR Physical Therapy (Sea Girt)
• SOSH Architects (Atlantic City, Philadelphia)
• Specialty Systems Inc. (Toms River)
• Stavola Companies (Tinton Falls)
• Stillwell-Hansen (Edison)
• STORIS (Mount Arlington)
• Supreme Security Systems (Union)
• Switlik Survival Products (Trenton)
• System Designs Associates (Woodland Park)
• TFH Publications & Nylabone Products (Neptune City)
• The Arc of Monmouth County (Tinton Falls)
• The Institute of Citizens & Scholars (Princeton)
• The Toa Reinsurance Company of America (Morristown)
• Tigerlabs (Princeton)
• TimberRidge Construction (Cranford)
• Tower Road Distributors (Dayton)
• Union Paving & Construction (Mountainside)
• USA Architects, Planners & Interior Designers, Ltd. (Somerville)
• V.J. Scozzari & Sons (Pennington)
• Van Dyk Healthcare (Montclair)
• Van Ness Plastic Molding Co. (Clifton)
• Westmont Associates (Cherry Hill)
• Zeus Industrial Products (Branchburg)