Enterprises actively conduct "dual goals" during the pandemic

Hai Nam Co., Ltd. is working and ensuring the "dual goals"

Overcome difficulties

Unlike previous times, the 4th epidemic wave has seriously affected the whole country in general and Binh Thuan in particular. A Majority of the country are facing many more difficulties and challenges due to the complicated situation of the pandemic. Enterprises in the province have never encountered such hatred situation. Even though, each enterprise has to deal with the disruption of the supply chain, the inadequacy in transportation and circulation of goods, and at the same time. It must ensure the daily life of its employees. However, with the initiative and responsibility, many businesses have planned production and business along with safe pandemic prevention measures. Thanks to their active initiatives, some aspects of life can be maintained and developed, ensuring the life of employees.

Hai Nam Co., Ltd (Phu Hai Ward, Phan Thiet City) specializes in manufacturing dried and frozen seafood in supply for internationally and domestically, especially local businesses affected by the Covid-19 epidemic. Thanks to their earlier proactive response , the company has made steady steps in recent years.

Before the complicated developments of the Covid-19 pandemic, this company made a thorough and comprehensive preparation of pandemic prevention plan to deploy to production teams such as: Require 100% of people entering and leaving the company must wear a mask during the production process at the factory (except when eating and drinking), closely monitor people entering and leaving the company, making medical declarations for all employees and visitors to contact daily work on BlueZone application, medical declarations, implementing subdivision of the area and control the separation between areas. The company's cafeteria is arranged to sit apart and have partitions between the tables. People are not allowed to sit opposite. Notably, At high-risk areas of dining room and production area, doorknobs, faucets, etc are sprayed with alcohol disinfectant every 30 minutes.

According to Mr. Toan- Head of the Organization Department of Hai Nam company, thanks to the initiative of the above plans, the company's production activities still take place regularly, maintaining jobs and stable incomes for more than 1,600 employees. The average income of employees in the first 6 months of the year is from 5.5 to 9 million VND/person/month, exporting 3,473 tons of seafood.

Flexible options

Binh Thuan currently has 6 operational industrial parks with nearly 11,000 employees working in 60 enterprises. The Management Board (MBU) of industrial parks in Binh Thuan province has regularly checked, reminded, and updated information on its website; thoroughly understand civil servants, public employees, and staff to raise their awareness of vigilance and self-protection against the risk of the pandemic. Ensuring well implement the 5K message “Mask - Disinfection - Distance - Do not gather - Medical declaration” and scan the QR code for all people who come to work.

Up to now, most enterprises and industrial park infrastructure investors have implemented quite well 5K message, requiring workers in the epidemic areas to stop working; develop plans to "handle situations when employees working at enterprises are infected/suspected of being infected with Covid-19". Some businesses have researched and developed the "3 on-site" option, the "1 road, 2 locations" plan. Thanks to that, there have been no cases of infection so far in the industrial zones of the province. The current situation of production and business activities of the enterprise has remained basically stable.

Ms. Le Thi Tuyet Lan - Deputy Head of Provincial Industrial Zones Management Board said: "The Board had an online meeting with enterprises and industrial park infrastructure investors to deploy safe production. Accordingly, to register and study building accommodation for workers when there is an epidemic in the enterprise, the main task is to seriously implement 5K measures including in production, traveling on shuttles, and eating and living. In addition, it is urgent to develop the "3 on-site" option or the "1 road 2 locations" option in the direction of reviewing and arranging production facilities, making use of the storages, workshops, offices, and other spaces to renovate and build temporary accommodation for workers, proactively contact concentrated inns, dormitories, hotels, motels, schools, enterprises in the industrial park have redundant factories or dragon fruit granaries in the area cease to operate".

"Currently, there are 6 businesses that are developing a "'3 on the spot' plan have sent to the Board of Review" - Ms. Lan added.

Along with the efforts and determination of enterprises and the consensus of workers and employees in the prevention of the Covid-19 pandemic, hope that this will help businesses and employees both produce safely and effectively prevent the pandemic and contribute to the development of production, ensuring social security.

Translated by Uyen Linh (Source: Binh Thuan Online)