The Covid-19 epidemic is getting complicated, many companies have strictly implemented measures to prevent and control it; at the same time, they have proactively proposed appropriate solutions to ensure safety for production, business and employee health.
Production is on-going at Printa Vietnam Co. Ltd. in Song Than Industrial Park 2 of Di An city
High awareness within enterprises
According to Nguyen Dinh Thai, Director of Social and Responsibility of PRINTA Vietnam Co. Ltd. in Song Than Industrial Park 2 of Di An City, his company currently has about 5,000 workers directly engaging in production. Board of Directors of the company has determined that the implementation of measures to prevent and control the disease Covid-19 is a top priority. The company has a department to monitor and check the compliance of wearing masks at the company's offices and workshops. It is recommended that workers should not to go back to their hometowns or to travel during the Tet holiday, if they might come into contact with any patients or F1 cases, they must provide information and conduct quarantine according to regulations.
Having a large number of workers, Thai Binh Investment Joint Stock Company in Di An city has experience in implementing Covid-19 epidemic prevention and control for employees right from the first epidemic outbreak. The company's Board of Directors has set up a quick response team consisting of a number of personnel from the relevant departments to support disease prevention and control and maintain it. The regulations on disease prevention and control of Covid-19 by the company are very strict, including the body temperature check and mask wear during the working hours. Workers must use sanitizers to wash their hands on regular basis. According to Tran Cong Chanh, a personnel in charge of the company's Trade Union, the company has, right from the moment an epidemic appeared in the locality, promoted propaganda and guidance on disease prevention and control measures to employees. Company leaders always direct and organize propaganda among cadres, union members, workers, and employees not to neglect, especially before the current epidemic situations. At the same time, it seriously deploys and supervises the implementation of disease prevention measures according to regulations such as mask wearing and body temperature check, safe distance in working and daily life. By the propaganda of the company, workers understand the policy very well and train tickets to stay in Binh Duong to work and celebrate Tet.
At Duc Thien Company in Tan Uyen Town, the medical monitoring process against people entering and leaving the company is fully implemented with the following steps: hand sanitizing, body temperature check, and body disinfection. Employees always wear masks in the company and are equipped with hand sanitizers for frequent hand wash. To keep the distance at the request of the Ministry of Health, the company divided staffs into several groups at lunch time to avoiding crowding while distributing masks for free and arranging adequate hand sanitizers at locations that are convenient for employees to use. The company applied various forms of notification via Facebook, Viber, and Zalo every day to propagate measures to prevent and control Covid-19 to workers, calling on them to limit travel and not to gather in crowds.
Working people’s consensus
Appreciating the seriousness of businesses in the area in implementing measures to prevent and control Covid-19, Nguyen Thanh Ha, Deputy Director of Binh Duong provincial Department of Industry and Trade, said that the gathering of people in the process of production in factories has been monitored by provincial leaders to ensure that enterprises comply with regulations and recommendations on health safety. Nguyen Thanh Ha suggested that companies should continue to well implement measures to prevent and control Covid-19 along with their production and business activities to ensuring jobs for laborers and contribute to overcome difficult times and the epidemics. Ha suggested businesses should continue to quickly overcome some existing limitations in order to do better in preventing and combating epidemics by ensuring maximum safety and health for employees. Specifically, further reduction of the number of people gathered in the cafeteria should be practiced to create safe distance and pay attention to ensure regulations on food safety and hygiene.
Ha said that the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic is very necessarily in need of the cooperation and companionship of the people and enterprises. The department has also shared with the difficulties of enterprises in implementing regulations on the social distancing of the Covid-19 prevention and control procedures as some specific production lines cannot be separated in such sense. However, businesses need to implement solutions to minimize the close contact among their employees in the working process in order to ensure the safety of employees' health.
Reported by Tieu My – Translated by Vi Bao
