NEW YORK: With factories shuttered and workers sitting at home as the Covid-19 virus spreads, a return to normal may seem distant. But auto-parts supplier Lear Corp. wants businesses to get ready for that day, so it’s sharing a free guide on steps and best practices it’ll take when it’s safe to resume operations.
Lear’s 51-page Safe Work Playbook outlines protocols ranging from advanced social-distancing practices to on-site health screening of workers, visitors and contractors.
It offers a step-by-step guide to setting up a "pandemic prevention team” to coordinate stricter operations and virus responses across a business.
Lear also recommends training programmes for returning workers, and that plants and work sites first be 100% disinfected.
The recommendations are based on guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organisation.
"This has been a difficult time for everyone, and re-establishing a workplace where employees feel comfortable performing their jobs safely is a multi-faceted challenge,” Lear CEO Ray Scott wrote in the manual’s cover letter.
"It is our hope that by sharing this resource we can help other organisations accomplish the same goals.”
Lear isn’t claiming to know all the answers in today’s fast-changing situation. That’s one reason behind one of the first things readers will see, front-and-centre on Page 2 of the automotive seating and electronics supplier’s playbook: a legal disclaimer.
