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COVID-19 Health Advisory for Auto Component Manufacturing Industry - A Collation of Best Practices
COVID-19 Health Advisory for Auto Component
Manufacturing Industry
- A Collation of Best Practices
COVID-19 Health Advisory
ACMA Members are advised to follow these guidelines within their
organisations to help contain the spread of Corona Virus.
a) Advisory For Employees/Individuals:
1. Maintain personal hygiene – cover mouth for sneezing & coughing, wash
hands with soap-water frequently, avoid touching the
face/eyes/ears/mouth unnecessarily, avoid coming into close contact with
fellow employees, touching other persons etc. Keep workplace clean –
particularly buttons/switches, worktables, machine knobs, keyboards etc.
Do not spit at the workplace and surroundings.
2. Self-Declaration that there are no symptoms of illness including in the
family. (sample attached)
3. Declaration in the event of travel out of town or out of country on personal
or official travel.
4. Report any suspicious symptoms to health authorities immediately.
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b) Advisory for Organisations:
1. Deploy 5S practices across organization Keep premises clean – especially
common spaces, visitor rooms etc (ACMA PILLAR 3 TEAM CAN GUIDE
THROUGH VIDEO WEBINARS).
2. Strictly avoid public spitting, unguarded sneezing etc. Encourage staff to
wash hands regularly with soap and be hygienic.
3. Provide soap/hand-wash facilities, hand sanitisers etc at multiple locations.
4. Screen employees/ visitors at security gate with temperature gun.
5. Seek declaration from visitors about the current status and recent travel.
(Sample attached)
6. Avoid mass meetings, gatherings (QC circles, CFT meetings etc.) within
premises & outside.
7. Restrict and closely monitor travel of all employees.
8. Disinfect buses/ fork lifts/ material movement trollies and similar transport.
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9. Disinfect common facilities regularly.
10. Display posters in English and Local language on large scale across
organization.
11. Avoid use of wash and use items like tea glasses, breakfast plates etc.
and try to use disposable items.
12. Check medical item consumption from company facilities and identify
employees consuming related medicines for cough, sneezing, headache,
fever or similar symptoms for COVID 19.
13. Identify employees with consistent sickness history and if required
quarantine them.
14. Make use of audio/ video films for awareness.
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15. Organize short dramas (skits) at shop floor for sensitizing employees for
civic sense.
16. Company can distribute handkerchiefs/ sanitizers/ soap and similar
items as CSR activity.
17. Initiate inspection by trained personnel for identifying employees with
symptoms.
18. Create special attention room with all hygiene practices for isolation.
19. Conduct special health check up right now for all employees
20. Canteen Facility
21. Ventilation Systems Checks
22. Doors and door knobs
23. External Vehicles drivers
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For Employees:
1.Maintain personal hygiene – cover mouth for sneezing & coughing, wash hands with soap-water frequently, avoid touching the face/eyes/ears/mouth unnecessarily, avoid coming into close contact with fellow employees, touching other persons etc. Keeping workplace clean – particularly buttons/switches, worktables, machine knobs, keyboards etc. Do not spit at the workplace and surroundings.
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2. Self-Declaration that there are no symptoms of illness including in the family. ( Soft form is attached )
CORONA VIRUS SELF DECLARATION FORM
Source : ACMA Pune Office
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3. Declaration in the event of travel out of town or out of country on personal or official travel.
Employees must inform of their travel plans prior and after visiting
domestic cities
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4. Report any suspicious symptoms to health authorities immediately.
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For Organisations:
1. Deploy 5S practices across organization. Keep premises clean –especially common spaces, visitor rooms etc. (ACMA PILLAR 3 TEAM CAN GUIDE THROUGH VIDEO WEBINARS)
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2. Strictly avoid public spitting, unguarded sneezing, not washing hands regularly and not following minimum personal hygiene methods. (ACMA PILLAR 3 TEAM CAN GUIDE THROUGH VIDEO WEBINARS)
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3. Provide soap-water f, hand sanitisers etc at multiple locations.
Source : ACMA Membership
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4. Screen employees/ visitors at security gate with temperature gun.
Source : ACMA Membership
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5. Seek declaration from visitors about the current status and recent travel. (Sample attached)
Each visitor record must be maintained at Security and visitors / employees with fever not to enter
Followed at PUNE ACMA Office area
Source : ACMA Pune Office
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6. Avoid mass meetings, gatherings (QC circles, CFT meetings etc.) within the premises and outside.
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7. Restrict and closely monitor travel of all employees. Allow Work from home for non-critical functions
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8. Disinfect buses/ fork-lifts/ material movement trollies and similar transport.
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9. Disinfect common facilities regularly.
Source : ACMA Membership
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10. Display posters in English and Local language on large scale across organization.
Source : ACMA Membership
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11. Avoid use of wash and use items like tea glasses, breakfast plates etc. and try to use disposable items.
Use disposable items.
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12. Check medical item consumption from company facilities and identify employees consuming related medicines for cough, sneezing, headache, fever or similar symptoms for COVID 19.
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13. Identify employees with consistent sickness history or travelled from abroad and if required quarantine them.
Source : Internet
Source : Internet
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14. Make use of audio/ video films for awareness.
https://youtu.be/PMHqrPiq2Cc
Source : ACMA Membership
Film in Hindi
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15. Organize short dramas (skits) at shop floor for sensitizing employees for civic sense. Maintain social distancing
Source : Internet
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Staircase Working / Walking
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16. Company can distribute handkerchiefs/ sanitizers/ soap and similar items as CSR activity.
Source : ACMA Membership
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17. Initiate inspection by trained personnel for identifying employees with symptoms.
Source : Internet
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18. Create special attention room with all hygiene practices for isolation.
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19. Conduct special health check-up right now for all
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20. Canteen Facility
• Snacks distribution points to be increased at shop floor or increase distance between dining tables
• Staggering of lunch, snacks and tea time of shop floor to ensure safe distance between people
• Deploy Water Dispenser instead of individual jug on each table
• All people seated on one side of the table only (not facing each other).
• Cutlery ( forks and knives ) to be issued on individual basis
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21. Ventilation Systems Checks
• Regular Cleaning / checks of the ventilation systems and AC ducts.
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Ensure fresh air every three hours or keep windows OPEN
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22. Doors
• All Office Doors should be kept open all the time to prevent touch points
• Avoid touching of door knobs
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23. External Vehicles drivers
• Restricted entry of all external drivers to shop floor.• Check where from these driver travelled
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24. Floors an other surfaces cleaning
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• Floors and other surfaces in the premisesshould be disinfected daily with 1%Hypochlorite or similar on a regular basis.
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25. Avoid use of common cleaning items usage
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• Soaps, towels to be removed immediately, soap solution through
dispensers to be used.
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26. No sharing of Personal Items
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• Restrict yourself on sharing a personal item. E.g. Pen, Mobile phones etc.,
NO SHARING
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27. Contingency plan for access for centralized data
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Can prioritize the use of laptops and work from Home policy as below:• Employees who are critical to the business function
• Employees who use public transport to commute to office and home
Check the infrastructure for the capacity of users logging in from home.
Create one pagers – how to connect with VPN, Webex / Skype meetings
Share info on Do and Don’ts of Virtual meetings / remote collaboration
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