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COVID-19: How are we keeping our employees safe
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In addition to our existing rigorous food safety protocols, such as:
- Wearing Masks
- Hand Washing & Sanitizing
- Daily Temperature Checks
- Safe Distancing
- Avoiding Contact
- Hands-free Doors
we have implemented a number of additional actionable tactics to keep our employees safe. A few of these tactics include:
- In depth employee training on personal sanitation and hygiene, proper social distancing, and recognizing symptoms typical of Covid-19.
- Health specialist on-sight to taking temperatures of all employees and visitors entering the 4Earth offices and facilities.
- Requiring all employees and visitors to wear a mask while on the 4Earth Farms property. We have been providing our employees with three or more cloth face masks.
- Offering full face shields.
- Increasing the number of times per day that doorknobs, handles, countertops and other exposed, high-touch surfaces are being sanitized. Sanitizing all common areas every two hours.
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- Removing all doorknobs on our main facility entry doors and adding kick plates so doors can be opened hands free.
- Establishing designated entrance and exit doors.
- Increasing deep cleanings of our floors, production room, locker rooms and lunch facilities.
- Installation of hands-free washing stations at the entrance of our production rooms and Adding additional hands-free wash stations at the entrance to our warehouse.
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- Adding tables to our lunch areas to allow employees to spread out and keep a safe distance during lunch and break times.
- Installing plexiglass dividers on all lunch and breakroom tables to ensure physical separation of employees.
- Adding additional stainless-steel tables in our repack rooms to spread team members out to six feet or more. Supervisors are trained to monitor and ensure employees are maintaining proper distances.
- Limiting drivers and visitors to only one in our front check-in lobby at a time. A 4Earth employee is stationed at our door to ensure drivers and guests waiting to enter maintain a six-foot distance from each other.
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- Adding signs at our facility entrance listing symptoms of Covid-19 and encouraging anyone entering to conduct a self-diagnosis, return to their vehicle and call our HR department if they exhibit any of the symptoms.
- Limiting all company meetings to six or less if conducted in our large meeting rooms. All other meetings are stand up meetings in common office areas.
- Adding signs and visual aid tools to show safe distance for employees in our production area and lunchroom
- Staggering employee lunch breaks to facilitate maintaining a safe distance
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- Implementing forklift and pallet jack touch areas sanitation through the shift
- Placing Quat mats at entrance of the facility and in other high pass through areas.
- Providing fresh fruit and vegetable boxes for all of our employees every Friday so their families can enjoy a wide range of healthy 4Earth produce. Placing health and safety flyers in each box so that our teams can share in Covid-19 prevention tactics with their families.
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We are working closely with our farms and farm packing facilities to ensure they are implementing additional tactics to safeguard their employees and enhance their food safety programs.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1592580084243{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]
- Increasing employee training and education on Covid-19 and personal sanitation and proper social distancing.
- Increasing sanitation of all work surfaces, harvest tools, tractors and storage areas.
- Expanding break areas and increasing supervision of harvest crews and packing crews to ensure proper distancing.
- Evaluating harvest and packing crews daily to ensure teams are free from any Covid-19 symptoms.
- Communicating daily with 4Earth and monitoring of border activity to ensure the smooth flow of fresh produce from farms to the 4Earth facility.
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