Volunteer Safety Guidelines and Regulations:

• All volunteers filling the following jobs need to be age 18+:
  • Turkey rotation
  • Turkey prep & carver
  •  Kitchen help: meal production, pie baking
• All volunteers filling the following jobs need to be age 16+ AND HAVE A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN PRESENT DURING SHIFTS:
  • Kitchen clean up: clean all trays used in the making of the boxed lunches
  • Kitchen help: stack and stage orders for delivery (heavy lifting required)
  • Support: load orders onto trucks for overnight storage and delivery (heavy lifting required); stack and stage orders for delivery (heavy lifting required)
  • Dishwashing
• Unfortunately, children are not permitted on-site during volunteer shifts.
• All volunteers will be given hair nets, gloves, and aprons that must be worn during your entire volunteer shift.
• Volunteers are expected to wear close-toe shoes during their shifts; open-toe shoes are strictly prohibited.
• Kindly, those who display or have cold, influenza, and/or COVID-19 symptoms to stay home and take care of themselves.

Additionally, we need to inform our volunteers of the following specifics:

• The knives that are used during turkey prep and carving are professional-grade and very sharp.
• Cleaning of turkey carcasses is a grueling process and very labor intensive.
• Carving of turkey requires volunteers to be in the standing position. Sitting while carving turkeys will not be possible or allowed.