SO JUST HOW DID WE MANAGE TO BALANCE THE SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN ORDERS AGAINST THE INCREASINGLY EXTENSIVE SECURITY MEASURES AND RESTRICTIONS? To start, once it became clear that European countries were considering imposing lockdowns and travel restrictions, the executive board rapidly created a Covid-19 crisis team with the aim to bring in close “virtual” contact the Executive board with select local personnel to facilitate fast sharing of best practice, to coordinate measures across the group and to be a partner for important decisions on country level.
Because the health and wellbeing of the employees is of utmost priority, and to ensure continual production, we have – among other measures – cordoned off our mills and sent non-operational staff to work from home. Furthermore, we have segmented all operations and shifts and created separate teams to minimize personal interaction between our staff members, thereby respecting the social distancing norms we follow today and ensuring that production is not disrupted.
Ensuring continuity of production and its optimization by securing in advance all materials necessary for a smooth production process was possible due to our long-established strategy of regional procurement and loyal business relationships with our suppliers.
Hygiene and safety systems have thoroughly and strictly been implemented for years throughout our mills. Because of our adherence to these standards and the fact that we have planned for an array of foreseeable eventualities, the GoodMills Group was already in a strong position to deal with the challenges imposed by the virus. Nevertheless we implemented 100% of all additional safe-guards our own experts suggested to us in all our mills across Europe such as: the obligation to increase washing and / or disinfecting of hands by all persons, increasing the number of disinfectant preparation points, maintaining a minimum distance of 1m between people in any area and drivers to remain in their vehicles at truck loading and un-loading points.
HYGIENE AND SAFETY SYSTEMS HAVE THOROUGHLY AND STRICTLY BEEN IMPLEMENTED FOR YEARS THROUGHOUT OUR MILLS.
These are just a handful of the measures taken which, with the help of our employees, were able to quickly implement. As a company we weren’t spared from having any cases, but measures taken were effective and prevented the virus spreading beyond the limited groups. Fortunately, l am happy to say that at the time of writing we’re able to report that all our staff and their family members who contracted the virus have all made a full recovery.
As we look forward to the upcoming period, we still face a lot of uncertainties as the flour consumption continues to shift between out-of-home (hotels, restaurants, etc) to home consumption. But whatever challenges might come, the past months have taught us the importance of having in place a management team who knows well our industry, whose decisions were clearly and transparently conveyed to all staff, and in return made all involved parties feel safe, appreciated and ready to continue supplying millions of Europeans with what we all depend on: our daily bread.
Alexandra-Maria Stoiciu E:
a.stoiciu@
goodmills.com T: +43 1 5351124 548
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