A new report outlines measures that General Motors is taking to protect employees returning to work during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
According to local NBC news affiliate WILX 10, General Motors is working with the United Auto Workers union (UAW) to implement new safety measures, which include the wearing of personal protective equipment (PPE) and social distancing practices.
According to the report, General Motors recently sent out a flyer that stipulates all employees must wear a face mask. However, GM also notes that social distancing is impossible for those on the assembly line. What’s more, some workers may have a medical condition which would make it difficult to wear PPE.
“Some of the jobs working shoulder to shoulder touching the same part, the same time,” said UAW Local 602 Vice President Steve Delaney.
“If they have a true medical condition and have a note from a doctor they will get regular paid sick leave. If they say ‘I just don’t feel safe going back to work’ they can go on unpaid leave,” Delaney added.
In addition to PPE and social distancing practices, General Motors will conduct thermal imaging scans for those employees entering the workplace. Once it is determined that they don’t have a fever, they will receive a face mask to begin work.
It is expected that Michigan’s stay-at-home orders will lift on Friday, May 15th, with General Motors employees returning to work that following Monday. Getting employees back to work is seen as critical to helping small local businesses and the local economy as well.
As we covered last month, General Motors recently issued an internal alert notifying employees that it was recalling workers to idled production facilities to prep them for operation. Back in March, General Motors announced that it would suspended North American production operations to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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Totally not necessary, just have everyone stand in a decontamination booth with UV lamps for a couple of minutes because COVID-19 can live on a person’s clothing and shoes. If you have exposed skin, you can have COVID-19 on your person which means everyone in this article could potentially have COVID-19 on their person.
don’t forget the bleach jello shots and uv suppositories!!!
My doctor prescribed some suppositories a couple years ago. He called me a few days later to see how it’s working. I told him these pills are kind of big to swallow, and I didn’t notice any difference. I told him I thought it was a waste of money. For all the good they did I could have just shoved them up my………..
Is that the treatment recommended by the POTUS?
and drink and inhale bleach, as POTUS Trump 🤡 recommended.
🤢😬
On the whole, these are realistic smart steps. If it was me working on the floor:
1. Masks better be N95 or N99/100, and in a couple different sizes (suitable to not distract for a whole shift), even if I’d have to make my own.
2. I’d want very readily available hand sanitizer and disinfectant spray.
3. Only my personal doctor or I’d do any thermal examining. If a foreman thinks I’m sick, get a union rep witness, and send me home.
4. (expanding on 3) I’d not allow getting dictated to by egghead types or political point scoring union higher-ups. The power hungry stuff has gone too far already.
I expect that the worker glove are tougher because they do wear out during their handling of equipment and tools. I expect a two-layered scheme, where the medical gloves go on first, then the work gloves on top of them. That is how I do with my gloves during mechanical work at home.