Endress+Hauser donates masks and sanitizers in villages in Aurangabad
Aurangabad: To help stem the tide of COVID-19 in this most critical, fragile and burdened community, Endress+Hauser India’s MD, Kailash Desai has donated around 4000 face masks and sanitizers to villagers in Rajapur and Chudawa. Even the police who are helping the villagers to follow government rules from Aurangabad, Jalna , Parbhani and Chudawa have received 1500 face masks.
“We have been fighting with the invisible enemy for almost 3 months now and Aurangabad has seen a spurt of cases on a daily basis. There is such rising concern about the easy spread of the virus to people in Aurangabad region. Am sure the distribution of masks and sanitizer will be helpful and the police too have our support in this fight” said Kailash Desai, MD, Endress+Hauser India.
Since the pandemic outbreak Endress+Hauser India and especially Aurangabad where the company has the manufacturing unit have been educating and training employees to fight carona. The training has been about proper hand hygiene, cough etiquette and social distancing techniques. The newly formed in-house expert team is constantly understanding the trends and following WHO guidelines and have developed newer work practice and engineering controls. Additional protection has been provided to the customers and employers, such as; clear plastic sneeze barriers, ventilation, and the proper selection, use and disposal of personal protective equipment.
The most important part of pandemic preparedness is to work with the employees, local and municipal corporation’s and to develop co-operative pandemic plans to maintain the operations and keep the employees and the public safe. We are adhering to government guidelines and are also open to ideas from our customers and employers. There are Watsapp groups which will help contact tracing of the employees, their families and relatives in all metro cities including Maharashtra & Aurangabad . Endress+Hauser India is also coordinating with the local chamber of commerce on a regular basis.
As a countermeasure to ensure the physical and mental well-being of employees, especially owing to the outbreak of the virus Endress has launched newer policies which are employee friendly.