In mid-March, positive cases were found in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. All of a sudden, the city entered a tense epidemic prevention and control status. Located in Yongxiu County, Jiujiang, adjacent to Nanchang, Elkem Xinghuo Silicones took immediate action to investigate and control the whole staff after the outbreak in Nanchang. By cooperating with the requirements of the county epidemic prevention department and the park, it made great efforts in the logistics of epidemic prevention and production guarantee while implementing various measures, and brought full warmth and emotion to the employees.

Warm concern at the quarantine homes

On March 18, due to the early round trip to Nanchang, some employees of Elkem Xinghuo Silicones received the park's request during work, asking them to go to the quarantine homes for centralized quarantine immediately. Even many employees had no time to go home to pack their daily necessities and change their clothes. To understand their needs, the HSE Department, Logistics Department, and Administration Department established a WeChat group for quarantined employees. "Room 203 needs two pairs of slippers, Room 305 needs one tube of toothpaste, Room 308 needs two buckets of instant noodles..." one after another, all of those needs were registered and summarized one by one. Relevant daily necessities were transported to the quarantine homes in several batches by special vehicles, solving the urgent needs of quarantined employees. After the completion of the centralized quarantine, the subsidiary arranged a special car to pick up the employees at the doorsteps, giving everyone a warm and deep sense of security.

Since some employees live in Gongqing, De'an, and other places, they cannot travel to and from the workplace normally during the epidemic control period, affecting their daily work. In this regard, after active coordination and communication, the Party committee administration of Elkem Xinghuo Silicones contacted Xinhao Hotel in Yongxiu County to provide free accommodation for those employees, solving their worries and enabling employees put themselves to work at ease. In addition, to solve the congestion problem of employees during rush hours, the company, through multi-party communication with Yongxiu County Government, opened a special channel at Yongxiu First Bridge for employees of Elkem Xinghuo Silicones, greatly facilitating the commute of employees.

Brave guardian

On March 19, the epidemic prevention department of Yongxiu County required Elkem Xinghuo Silicones to carry out two rounds of full staff nucleic acid testing. After receiving the instruction, the office of the company's epidemic prevention headquarters immediately arranged a site for nucleic acid testing and provided interval facilities for queuing. They were in close contact with the samples of nucleic acid testing, but they completely ignored their own safety. Instead, they organized and maintained order against time to complete the testing quickly and efficiently. On March 19 and 23, Elkem Xinghuo Silicones completed two rounds of nucleic acid testing, with a total of more than 3,000 people, and the results were negative.

Disinfection and sterilization warriors braving a dangerous situation

Upon the outbreak in Nanchang, the Emergency Management Center of Elkem Xinghuo Silicones immediately established a Party member disinfection and sterilization team for epidemic prevention, focusing on disinfection and sterilization twice a day in the morning and evening in office buildings, freight gate posts, staff canteens, and other places. Wrapped in a protective suit and carrying 10 kg of disinfectant on their backs, the team members were already sweating and exhausted after disinfection and sterilization. However, since March 13, the disinfection and sterilization team had been persisting in the front line of fighting against the epidemic every day, silently guarding the health defense line for the employees. As of March 25, they had inspected nearly 400 vehicles before entering the plant, and meticulously completed the disinfection and sterilization tasks in various public areas.

Epidemic prevention inspection on the front line

Given this grim epidemic situation, Elkem Xinghuo Silicones held a special meeting on epidemic prevention and control and tightened various epidemic prevention and control measures once again. Through the following series of strictly implemented supervision and inspection, the subsidiary's Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters Office, together with the Discipline Inspection Commission Office, the Administrating Office, and other departments, has made every effort to fight a protracted war of epidemic prevention and build a strong security defense line: inspecting the implementation of epidemic prevention work at key checkpoints every day, supervising the daily disinfection and sterilization work of resident contractors, and counting the inventory of emergency supplies for epidemic prevention and control.