The government’s mandate that all businesses deemed nonessential needed to close to the public panicked the welding industry. Many companies “scrambled” to learn their essential or nonessential status upon hearing this information.
If a company received the news that it could remain open to the public, then the next step to resuming business entailed following the plethora of new rules. These protocols include directives to constantly wipe down equipment, wash hands often, and cover employees head to toe with personal protection equipment. Manufacturers are implementing administrative controls like workers are working in thinner shifts and of course, 6-feet apart. The joke that made rounds “Most of us have washed our hands more in the past ten days than we have in the previous ten years”. Temperatures and potential symptoms are monitored every day when employees clock into the company’s premises at Nouveaux.
The inability for many workers to appear onsite further complicated matters for welding manufacturers.
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