Smart Restart Toolkit
Resources to keep your business up-to-date on policies and best practices that help you reopen safely and restart your businesses.
Support Small Businesses
- Shop Downtown Holland - List of Businesses
- Dine Downtown Holland - List of Restaurants
- Heal the Zeel - City of Zeeland website
Help Local Restaurants by carrying out food, promoting them on social media and tipping 20%.
Directory of over 90 Chamber member businesses where you can redeem your West Coast Cash purchases or gifts.
Member Question of the Day Videos
Member Question How the New MIOSHA Rules Affect Businesses
Each week we highlight a Member Question of the Day in our weekly e-news. But did you know that there are many more Member Question videos making their way around social media on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn?
See all of our Member Question of the Day videos in our Business Insider Blog.
Most recently, we recorded an interview with attorneys from Smith, Haughey, Rice & Roegge on the top legal questions being asked by business owners and employees. Watch Here.
Workplace Safety Guidance
- COVID-19 Test Finder - Ottawa County
- COVID-19 Test Finder - State of Michigan
- Employer COVID Testing Guidance - from Holland Hospital
Executive Order 2020-147 - Mandatory Masks
How Do Businesses Enforce the Mandatory Mask Executive Order? Member Question of the Day Video with Brian Calley of the Small Business Association of Michigan.
Member Question of the Day Brian Calley
See all Stay Home, Stay Safe and MI Smart Start Executive Orders
Use these guidelines and safety tips to limit potential exposure to COVID-19 and to help keep yourself and co-workers safe and healthy while returning to work.
Employers should continue to review the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) websites to ensure their workplace policies and procedures are based on the most up-to-date information available.
Details on MI Safe Start Plan - Michigan.gov
(Descriptions of stages, phases and regions detailed in the plan.)
Includes Industry Specific Guidelines and Printable Posters for:
- Guidance for Preparing Workplaces - Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Illness and Injury Record-Keeping Forms - OSHA
- Industry Types Exempt from Record Keeping Requirements - OSHA
Government Relief and Guidance
State
- $8.55 Million in Workplace Safety Grants from LEO (Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity)
- Michigan Small Business Restart Program (from MEDC)
- Michigan Small Business Relief Program (from MEDC)
- Tax Relief for Businesses
- Temporary Expansion of Unemployment Benefits
- Unemployment Services for Employers - Work Share Program: Alternative to Layoffs
- How to Apply for Unemployment Benefits
- Unemployment Benefits Frequently Asked Questions
- Michigan Chamber of Commerce Coronavirus Toolkit
- Michigan Paycheck Protection Program (MiPPP) - Michigan Association of CPAs
Federal
- Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) - SBA
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Federal Paycheck Protection Program Information - From the Michigan Chamber
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SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans - Information and How to Apply
- Families First Coronavirus Response Act Department of Labor Poster - Federal
- Families First Coronavirus Response Act Department of Labor Poster - Non-Federal
- Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) Information
- EIDL Application
Local
Printable Posters
Access Coronavirus Business Toolkit
Coronavirus Business Toolkit