Experience in implementing '3 on-site' of Nghe An enterprises

"16+ DIRECTIVE" AT ENTERPRISES

During the implementation phase of "3 on-site", ensuring safety forworkersand maintain production activities, in Nghe An, many businesses have responded effectively and flexibly to the epidemic situation and ensured epidemic prevention factors.

Production activities inside factories apply "3 on-site". Photo: PV

During the recent working trip to grasp the implementation of "3 on-site" of the Provincial Federation of Labor, Hoa Sen Nghe An One Member Co., Ltd. was evaluated as one of the units that did a very good job in epidemic prevention. Mr. Dang Van Hung - Head of Safety Department of Hoa Sen Nghe An One Member Co., Ltd. said: Before employees stayed at the company, the unit organized screening and screening to control input, ensuring epidemic prevention safety. Change the control plan from time to time to suit the epidemic situation.

Specifically, from July 2021 to present, all employees leaving the centralized accommodation area of ​​this enterprise must declare and review their travel schedule and contact history before returning, to ensure that they are not related to epidemic areas, infected cases, or suspected cases. After the Covid-19 test by RT-PCR method gives a negative result, the employee is taken to a separate quarantine area in the company for 21 days, and continues to be tested for Covid-19 by RT-PCR method once a day before being allowed to enter the accommodation area.

Comrade Kha Van Tam - Chairman of the Provincial Labor Federation visited and learned about the lives of "3 on-site" workers. Photo: PV

Not only controlling the input, all employees staying in the factory are tested periodically using the RT-PCR method once a week. For high-risk workers such as security guards, warehouse workers, etc., internal rapid testing using the Company's self-imported kit is performed once a day.

According to the company's leaders, to ensure safety during the epidemic, businesses need to strictly implement epidemic prevention as in the "Directive 16+". Specifically, divide many small accommodation areas according to each department and according to groups with different risks of Covid-19 infection, each area has about 50-60 people, using separate dining areas, bathing and washing areas, and not in contact with other accommodation areas; In each accommodation area, continue to divide rooms according to production lines and shifts to minimize the spread of the epidemic in case of risk, workers in each production line stay on the same production line, each shift stay on the same shift; Implement Covid-19 epidemic prevention measures according to the recommendations of the Ministry of Health on masks, disinfection, keeping distance, checking temperature twice a day; Organize meals in each room and divide bathing and personal hygiene hours to minimize contact.

At Nghi Thiet Cement Factory of Song Lam Cement Company, in addition to seriously implementing 5K, the enterprise also arranged a disinfection chamber right at the entrance. Anyone who wants to enter must go through the disinfection chamber and strictly follow the 5K recommendations.

The Agricultural Trade Union visited and supported workers implementing "3 on-site" at Nghe An Seafood Joint Stock Company. Photo: PV

Controlling external factors is also an extremely important issue that needs to be addressed in "3 on-site" businesses. Accordingly, businesses with high awareness of epidemic prevention have implemented a number of good practices such as: Strictly prohibiting outsiders from entering the company, prioritizing working by phone and online; minimizing the bringing of personal belongings from outside into the accommodation area; disinfecting goods with Cloramin B solution/concentrated salt water/UV radiation chamber at the company before bringing them into the company; Regular testing of departments/units providing meals for workers, receiving rice in large pots, disinfecting with boiled salt water and factory employees dividing the food themselves; The goods delivery department requires drivers and assistants to come to work to have RT-PCR test certificates within 3-7 days and be quickly tested at the gate before working...

NOT JUST PRODUCTION

To make workers feel secure in their work“3 on the spot”Most businesses have made efforts to improve living conditions such as arranging more bathrooms, toilets, buying sleeping tents, installing air conditioners, providing extra meals, installing phone charging stands... and having appropriate support policies in addition to salary.

Special meal on National Day September 2 at some enterprises in the Southeast Economic Zone. Photo: DVCC

At IMS Innovation Co., Ltd., in addition to 3 main meals, the company's leaders also provide bread and fresh milk for snacks and support 100,000 VND/day; all personal items such as soap, shampoo, sleeping tents, bedding are fully provided, separately; workers' resting places are arranged in air-conditioned rooms with partitions at the dining tables...

To ensure the "3 on-site" work for more than 600 workers, Hoa Sen Nghe An One Member Co., Ltd. has provided 4 meals/day, supporting an additional 50,000/day; arranged places to play table tennis and badminton to improve physical and mental health; rented containers, installed air conditioners so that workers have more places to rest; rented mobile toilets to meet the requirements of epidemic prevention... At Song Lam Cement Company, at the peak time, the company implemented "3 on-site" for more than 1,400 workers but still ensured that all workers were supported with extra meals and 80,000/day in addition to their salary.

Trade unions at all levels regularly monitor the implementation of "3 on-site" at enterprises. Photo: PV

At Luxshare-ICT Co., Ltd., in addition to taking care of the lives and ensuring the regime for 4,000 workers, the company's leaders and union organizations have also created many activities to improve the living conditions of workers such as opening canteen services, installing wifi, organizing online competitions during the "3 on-site" implementation period. In some enterprises, workers implementing "3 on-site" are also installed with large projectors to serve entertainment needs, and receive additional support of 3 million VND/month...

Grasping the implementation situation at a number of large enterprises in the area, comrade Kha Van Tam - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Labor Federation, worried: "Besides the units with high awareness, responding well to the epidemic developments and implementing the epidemic prevention and control work in a methodical manner, there are still many units that have not seriously invested in this content. The control of external factors is not strict, the arrangement of eating and sleeping places for workers is still confusing, there is still a situation of organizing meals together with hundreds of people at the same time, there are no partitions on the dining table, no separation of routes for production shifts, no support to improve nutrition for workers...".

Chairman of the Provincial Federation of Labor visits "3 on-site" workers. Photo: PV

Discussing the difficulties from the business side, the Head of Human Resources Department of SangWoo Vietnam Co., Ltd. said: “When implementing “3 on-site”, we encountered some difficulties in picking up and dropping off workers according to the model of “1 route, 2 destinations”, the factory area is limited so we cannot arrange accommodation for 100% of the workers, the kitchen contractor has not been able to meet the richness of the menu... Organizing on-site accommodation is okay in the short term, but in the long term, workers will be constrained, their spiritual life will not be guaranteed, leading to a lack of interest in “3 on-site”…”.

After applying “3 on-site” in their units, many businesses expressed concern about having to maintain this plan for a long time. Because when applying “3 on-site”, the business operating budget increases with all kinds of costs: Management costs, costs of purchasing equipment to serve accommodation needs, costs of regular testing, costs of support outside of workers’ salaries...

From those difficulties, business owners all proposed to get the attention of provincial authorities to speed up the progress.vaccination for workersin industrial parks. This is also the desire of all workers in the area.

Workers need more attention when implementing "3 on-site" and need to be vaccinated against Covid-19 soon. Photo: PV