In a unique initiative, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages (HCCB), one of India’s leading FMCG companies has introduced a concept of working in small independent groups to prevent transmission of Covid-19 among people in its factories.
This has been implemented essentially to minimise human contacts and help immediately identify and isolate employees with exposure to any Covid-19 case.
The small groups are carefully formed to make each one of them self-sufficient thus eliminating any need for criss-crossing of individuals from one group to the other.
This is a part of unique safety measures implemented by the company to ensure complete safety of its employees and other partners working in all the factories spread across 15 locations in India.
To begin with HCCB carried out a detailed risk assessment of its factories and identified hot spots where people are likely to come face to facefor specific activities.
The company also instilled mandatory work from home for all office-based staff who are not required to be physically present in factories. As a preventive measure, the company redesigned the work and rerouted the work flow to minimise people contact at all these vulnerable points.
A case in point is the special cubicles created for the security staff posted at all the factory gates. Working as a barrier, the covered enclosure helps the security guard take temperature of every individual entering the factory premise without any physical exposure to anyone.
The company has also made it mandatory for people working in all the hot spots to wear additional personal protective equipment such as face shields and hand gloves.