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To date, the largest coronavirus outbreak in companies has been at the Vilnika mattress and pillowcase manufacturing company in Nemenčinė; As of the end of April, about 93 cases of the disease were reported. The 40 employees of the company were hospitalized, with cases of varying complexity. Another 40 cases of the disease were asymptomatic.
“We had 2 serious cases. One was not an employee, but a family member in very serious condition. You could say that it is a miracle that everything has ended very well, ”he said. According to the businessman, more than 90 percent. workers had to be isolated.
“All that is going well, all the people are doing well,” he said.
Due to this coronavirus outbreak, the entire city of Nemenčinė was temporarily closed: only people who live and work here can enter the city, and city residents cannot leave, except those who go to work. During the peak of the outbreak, the company, which had about 310 employees, was forced to suspend operations for two weeks.
“With Vilnika we were on different sides of the barricades, but they had to be crossed and joined to control the infection in this company, all the more so because a larger area was threatened.” Rolanda Lingienė, Head of the Vilnius Department.
He presented the “Vilnika” case as the best.
“We stopped the operations of the company in 4 hours and it took us 4 weeks to return to the original capacity,” said R. Jackevičius, manager of the company.
The director of the company said that no one would like the kind of experience the company had. According to him, at first it was not very successful to communicate with NVSC, but then the company received the support of the center and everything was on track.
He said that in such a case, if a coronavirus case was confirmed at the company, the NVSC would first receive a call with a brief instruction on what to do.
“First of all, isolating a person, establishing contact persons, there must be a relatively close and fluid work with the NVSC,” he said.
He mentioned that in the case of his company, urgent decisions were made to investigate all employees. That investigation, he said, should be organized in a few hours.
The employer assured that prevention is very important, but an individual approach is needed and the risks are best known to the company’s employees.
“What I would like to emphasize is going to and from work. In our case, many workers share transportation and even have to wear personal protective equipment upon arrival. In the past, people thought: the company requires that I wear a mask only when I get to the door. I would suggest that everyone pay attention to how employees come and go from work, ”said the company director.
According to R.Jackevičius, whenever possible, people should have the opportunity to work from home.
He also recommended recording the results of employee temperature measurements, as well as monitoring how many people in the company take sick leave.
“We saw that the number of people who took a job in the company per week doubled. It can also be a good indication that some processes are taking place in the company,” the entrepreneur shared his experience.
Every week, according to him, in “Vilnik” people are given to fill out a questionnaire asking if they have not been in contact with the sick to travel abroad.
Another important thing, he said, is training. Employees need to be explained how to use masks correctly, what distances to follow, even how to wash their hands.
“I suggest that everyone take an interest in preventive tests. Because one of our problems was that the first case was identified too late and, despite the measures taken, the virus spread widely,” R. Jackevičius shared his bitter experience.
According to him, you need to do your homework: it would be wise to form a coronavirus management team in advance.
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