More Prophylactic Actions Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
We packaged ice industry leaders need to support one another through this world socio-economic confusion. By working together to help each other through this, we each have a better chance than other non-EPIA packaged ice producers who have no support structure on which to rely. Our EPIA has supported all our members with dues adjustments, convention postponement, and overall quick responses to all member inquiries. We will continue to support our members throughout these difficult times.
Please remember how important our tag line is today, “Ice You Can Trust.” Now is the time to promote the trust portion of that tagline by stressing the production, storage, and delivery precautions our producers practice
as enhanced safety practices during this time. Please show your precautions by wearing masks and other prophylactic articles when representing EPIA and packaged ice in public.
Below is a communication from one of our members in Poland, Pure Ice Management. Pure Ice Management has taken even more safety measures in order to ensure EPIA ice is “Ice You Can Trust.”
This is how Pure Ice Management is conducting business during these unusual times:
Dear EPIA Members,
We are extremely grateful for your support and care these days. Every one of us – producers had to confront the new difficult reality. We all had to change the way we work so far and invent another way.
From the first case of Covid-19 in Poland, we had immediately implemented procedures to ensure the health safety of our contractors and employees. We conducted an educational campaign for our team in order to increase awareness and possibilities of protection against Covid-19 infection. We also limited our contacts with business partners mainly to ICT forms.
We follow the information published by the Minister of Health and the Chief Sanitary Inspector on an ongoing basis. According to their recommendations, we limited each of the shifts to a minimum number of people. We release and deliver our goods without direct contact with the personnel. In addition to standard procedures, we have increased the frequency of cleaning and disinfecting production and office areas, thus creating a safe working environment.
- All entrances to production rooms are equipped with air curtains. The entire production area is constantly monitored for temperature and air humidity.
- Production rooms, freezers, and warehouses are also equipped with flow-through air sterilizers that use UV rays to deactivate bacteria, viruses, fungi, and molds. Such equipment creates a more sterile atmosphere in the used space.
- The automatic production line of ice cubes ensures full sanitary safety. From the collection of water to the stacking of boxes on pallets, our employees don’t have any direct contact with the products (that is our earlier solution, but extremely important in COVID-19 time).
The first step in our factory…
- Immediately after entering the factory each employee and outsiders are obliged to disinfect hands and measure their body temperature independently. Temperature measure gates are currently being installed.
- Customer’s health and our support of production lines is our biggest priority. That’s why we equipped our employees with additional professional personal protective equipment and introduced an order to use them continuously. Each workstation is equipped with additional disinfectants. Our operators are obliged to wear masks while performing their duties.
We are doing everything that we can to keep our Pure Ice Management society healthy and safe. We also want to offer our help and support to every EPIA Member because we are together in that strange and demanding times.
Wish you all the best!
Be safe!
Pure Ice Management
P.S. We are looking forward to see all in good health in Malta in 2021.