How to re-open a Jobsite - MC Home Depot Lancaster

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Despite the fact that the Global pandemic has not ended, we have no choice but to return to a form of normalcy. This “New Normal” in a nutshell means that we have to carry on with our lives, incorporating extra precautions and care to avoid contracting COVID-19. Because of this, there is a need to come up with new protocols and procedures in order to safely operate while ensuring that our co-workers – and our families – remain COVID free. As you might well know, we have a job-site that recently reopened: MC Home Depot Lancaster our latest branch in Lancaster Cavite.  So we asked the MC Home Depot Lancaster Electrical Engineer, Eng. Nilo A. Perez, to share the protocols and procedures he initiated in MC Home Depot Lancaster to help ensure that the job-site continues to remain COVID free. This is MC Home Depot’s “How to re-open a job-site.”

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When word spread that the quarantine was going to be re-classified, Eng. Perez immediately researched the guidelines that would be necessary to re-open the job-site. Prior to the re-deployment he determined that all workers should:

• Have their residences verified. Workers from areas with high COVID rates were asked to wait a little longer;
• Produce a Barangay Health Certificate;
• Undergo a strict 14-day quarantine period;
• Agree to stay in the barracks areas for the duration of the project.

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Each contractor was then tasked with ensuring that these measures were met, and; to decide which of their workers they could safely vouch to send back into the job-site.  Engineer Perez ensured that newly deployed workers stayed in their designated working areas and barracks while they underwent the 14-day quarantine period under the watchful eyes of a safety officer.

All succeeding workers to deployed would be assigned to separate working areas and separate barracks until they completed their quarantine. 

TAKE PROPER PRECAUTIONS:

Eng. Perez also instituted regular preventive measures to be implemented in the MC Home Depot jobsite. Among these precautions were:

Eng Nilo Perez at the re-opened
MC Home Depot Lancaster Jobsite

• Asking ALL employees to submit to a temperature check before entering their work-areas, and as they exited at the end of the day.
• Asking ALL employees to truthfully answer a form that asked if they felt any of the possible symptoms of COVID.
• Tasking contractors with ensuring that their workers understand and follow MC Home Depot’s safety measures, and; assure MC Home Depot that their workers not only comply, but maintain good health until the project is finished.
• Tasking contractors with providing sufficient hand-soap and disinfectants for their workers;
• Tasking safety and Site engineers with ensuring that:
• Masks were properly and always worn by ALL employees and workers
• Regular handwashing was carried out by workers
• Social distancing was maintained before, during and after work-hours.
• Ensuring the regular disinfection of the MC Home Depot Field Office, Employee quarters and other common areas.
• Disallowing the entry of non-essential personnel into the construction site. 

Eng Perez closed by saying "We cannot guarantee that none of our workers will ever contract COVID, but we remain vigilant and have taken all the necessary precautions to minimize the risk."