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Processors Enhance Safety Protocols to Keep Workers Safe During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Temperature checking, partitions, handwashing stations, and webinars are among the measures taken to ensure safety.

Many processors are also offering their employees hazard pay and other benefits to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Many processors are also offering their employees hazard pay and other benefits to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Food and beverage manufacturing plants have been hotbeds for COVID-19 due to the nature of the work: lack of physical distancing, hygiene standards, and the pressure to come in even when workers are sick. But some processors have successfully instituted best practices to keep their workers safe on the plant floor.

Reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlight many of the safety measures and protocols Perdue Farms has implemented to protect their workers from the coronavirus after giving the agency tours of its poultry processing facilities in Virginia and Maryland. They include temperature checking as a requirement before entering the facility; installation of easily cleaned partitions between workers on the production line when social distancing is not possible; knee-pedal handwashing stations workers are required to use each time they enter the processing floor; and hosting virtual town-hall-style webinars with community leaders to stay updated about the symptoms and transmission of the virus.


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