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Epidemic Prevention Lifestyle
To ensure that every employee has a safe and secure work environment while the COVID-19 pandemic continues unabated across the globe, PChome’s management promptly initiated a mechanism of eight major precautionary measures for ensuring stable and continuous operations:
1. Devising response procedures against major infectious diseases
Notifiable infectious diseases can significantly damage and impact the health and safety of the employees. Safety and health protection management procedures and measures were adopted to increase awareness of our employees and effectively prevent the spread of disease in the workplace.
2. Creation of an epidemic prevention response team
Establishing an epidemic prevention response team who make timely decisions and response measures throughout the course of the epidemic. The team convenes regular meetings to discuss preventive measures and disseminate epidemic prevention information.
3. Environmental monitoring
- ・Maintaining a clean and well-ventilated workplace.
- ・Providing sanitizers and cleaning agents in the workplace.
- ・Disinfecting the entire setting.
- ・Disinfecting high-risk places such as washrooms, parlors, meeting rooms, as well as frequently touched objects and places such as tables, electronic devices, door handles, equipment buttons or switches etc.
4. Access control
- ・Taking the temperatures of all visitors and refusing entry to those with high body temperature.
- ・Leading visitors to the reception desk to have their hands sanitized and fill out a health status questionnaire.
- ・Requesting all occupants to wear a mask at all times in indoor settings.
5. Initiating split team operations
- ・ Arranging flexible work hours to split workforce flows.
- ・Implementing remote working for different locations and teams to minimize the risk of cluster infection.
- ・ Segregating workplace areas or floors in the same building to minimize the risk of cluster infection.
6. Self-health management
- ・Strengthening personal hygiene management mandates such as frequently washing one's hands and practicing good cough etiquette.
- ・Those who exhibit cold-like symptoms should wear a mask, return home, and seek medical treatment.
- ・Wearing a mask at all times in indoor settings.
- ・Refrain from eating together and applying socially distanced seating arrangements (1.5 m apart) that face the same direction (instead of one another)
- ・Maintaining a social distance of at least 1.5 m in indoor settings.
- ・Refrain from talking in confined spaces such as elevators.
- ・Providing health education materials and epidemic prevention products whenever necessary during the epidemic.
- ・Tracking employee movements during epidemics.
7. Temperature checking
- ・Employing a temperature tracker who records visitors' body temperature.
- ・Those with high temperatures are reported to an occupational health nurse for subsequent monitoring.
8. Emergency response
- ・Emergency response measures are implemented immediately when there are suspected COVID-19 cases in the workplace.
9. Work from home planning and simulation
- ・Implementing a work from home policy.
- ・ Employees are requested to upload their temperature records every day. Those with high temperatures are reported to an occupational health nurse and sent for medical treatment.
- ・Checking in and out through the Company's system.
- ・Working remotely by connecting to the Company's internet network.