Important Update: COVID-19

COVID-19

We are in unprecedented times here in our great nation, province, and city. We are ready to serve the needs of our customers and team members while doing our best to protect the needs of the community at large. Safety is one of our core values and is a high priority at Empower every day.

Team Empower provides a vital role in maintaining the health and safety of our community. Therefore, we will remain open during this time of social distancing. If your furnace, AC or water heater is broken, we will be there to fix it. 

We want to share our plan to address concerns and answer questions that you may be asking. Below is our process moving forward until further notified.

If you need service, please call our main line at 1-866-237-3426 for service at any hour. We have local staff handling the phones from 9 am to 5 pm most days and we have an after-hours answering service so that you are always speaking with a person to take care of your needs.

We are implementing several precautionary measures in order to minimize the risk of exposure to COVID-19 including:

Requiring team members to stay home if they feel sick
Providing stock of supplies (ex. hand sanitizer, gloves, disinfectant wipes, masks) to all employees
Minimizing contact among office staff
Implementing a 14-day quarantine if an employee has travelled outside the country

Service Call Precautions

We are open and running calls to homes. We want to be there in case of emergencies and make sure we keep our customers safe and comfortable at home. We also need to take caution to protect our team members and make sure they stay healthy as well.

When you call in, our office staff will be asking if anyone in the home has a fever, been diagnosed or had exposure to the virus. We need to know so that we can be proactive with our team’s response and level of protection. We will have some team members who do not want to be exposed to a high-risk customer and we will respect those wishes. We will also have team members who are willing to work in that environment so that we can respond to those in most need.

In most cases, we can troubleshoot equipment from outside, in a crawl space, or in attics and basements with minimal face to face contact. We will be following protocols to maintain a safe work environment by wearing gloves, wearing masks if needed, and disinfecting work areas in the home and in our trucks after each call.

You may be asked by a technician to speak via video or Facetime and we may ask that you help control the thermostat while we are stationed at the equipment. We ask that you work with us so that we may provide the services needed.

Maintenance Calls

We will be running maintenance calls during this time. If you are scheduled already, we plan to come but you are welcome to reschedule so please let us know. We might call before coming and go over any precautions that we need to discuss. As mentioned above, we can often work on equipment with minimal contact. Filters inside the home will need to be changed and we intend to do so please be aware

System maintenance is still very important and does not need to be put off for too long or ignored altogether.

Measures we are taking for our team to be aware of

Some of our team members may be working remotely from home and therefore our internal communication may not be as smooth as we would like. Please be patient with our team so that we can take the best care of you and all our customers.

We intend to limit our time in groups as we have cancelled all group meetings until further notice.

Technicians already work in isolation for most of the day and are not exposed to large groups during work. We will be limiting face to face interaction between our office team members and field team members.

Updates from Empower

We plan to work our plan in two-week increments unless the situation changes. We will send out communications via email and social media if our plan changes.

We greatly appreciate our customers and team members here at Empower. We understand the value of trying to reduce the spread of this virus so that our healthcare system is not overwhelmed. We are confident that we will be able to handle this predicament as quickly as possible and return to normality.

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