How should regional companies protect their workforce amid Covid-19 recovery

How should regional companies protect their workforce amid Covid-19 recovery

Alaaddin Mukhalalaty

Thursday 16 July 2020

Regional businesses return back to offices

Over the past few months, the Covid-19 global pandemic has left the world in an unpredictable situation, and the impact is calling for employers to implement precautionary measures to protect their most valuable assets, their employees.

As governments and businesses start to cautiously and gradually lift the restrictions to ease the return to the "new normal“, employee health and safety remains a top priority as the pandemic reshapes our working environment.

For the manufacturing and supply chain industries, the situation becomes slightly more complex due to the nature of their operational environment. Although many businesses are able to fully operate remotely for a prolonged period of time, a considerable percentage of the workforce in essential industries, such as manufacturing and logistics, have to work on site, which calls for high levels of proactivity to mitigate the evolving risks.

For HR business partners and leaders in the manufacturing and logistics industries, the nature of operations entails more physical interaction of "on the ground force' making it all the more critical than ever before to engage the workforce.

In such uncertain times, what your business needs is a clear and incisive guide on the best practices to