EMPLOYEE HEALTH AND SAFETY
rooms have been spread out to 6-foot distances and capacities limited.
Team huddle spots are spread out for social distancing.
We have dedicated social distance ambassadors in every facility who monitor safe spacing, address issues as employees arrive, and ensure continuous improvement in this area.
Temperature checks:
Every person entering any GEA manufacturing facility must go through temperature screening. The screening in touchless, performed by an infrared camera, and takes just seconds. Here is a 45-second video demonstrating this process: https:// vimeo.com/402649356/ d1f713dc69.
Over the course of one day, we screen more than 7,700 employees as they enter and re-enter the facilities.
Anyone exhibiting signs of illness, such as fever and respiratory symptoms, is required to stay home from work and seek medical care.
A coronavirus concern reporting and monitoring system has been established and is staffed around the clock to receive and address employee health and exposure concerns.
Nurses are available in every facility to respond to employee needs and concerns.
Every person who can do their jobs remotely have been working from home since March 16th.
This includes all of our call center employees.
Enhanced cleaning and sanitization at our facilities Increased professional cleaning and disinfecting services throughout our facilities with significant additional staffing and new cleaning standards of work.
Four hundred and one additional portable hand sanitizer and handwashing stations have been installed on the factory floors and our building grounds, adding to the 316 existing handwashing and sanitizing stations that already existed.
Personal protective supplies are readily available for employee use along with more than 2,670 sanitizing spray bottles and cloths for work stations.
Regular bathroom checks have been increased to four cleaning rounds per bathroom per shift.
Enhanced steam cleanings in bathrooms.
High-touch areas are cleaned multiple times per shift. These areas include, but are not limited to doorknobs, turnstiles, air guns, fixtures, tool grips, equipment touchpoints, powered industrial vehicle touchpoints, light switches, vending machines, bid-boards, timeclocks, tool crib countertops, touchpoints on docks, and handrails.
An internal committee of leaders focused on COVID-19 meets daily to review the best actions to protect the health of all of us while we continue servicing, installing, shipping and manufacturing appliances.
We have invited local public health officials to visit our facilities and provide guidance on any additional recommended steps—all of which are implemented immediately. And, we continue to have open daily discussions with our employees on the production floors to receive feedback and suggestions for additional improvements.