• Pivot a 24/7 manufacturing facility to work-from-home model.
• Safely operate a CPG manufacturing facility without spreading COVID-19.
• Operate multiple food and beverage (F&B) locations within a highly regulated state environment and continually changing COVID-19 restrictions.

• Minimize exposure risk to manufacturing plant and ensure (to most reasonable extent possible) employee safety
  • Manufacturing facility: pivot administrative work to work-from-home model to reduce exposure to teams that cannot work from home (operations).
  • Developed rotating schedules to reduce on-site interactions for multi-person teams.
  • Encouraged employees to stay home when sick/exposed, seek medical advice; get tested. Employees used FFCRA hours to cover lost time.
  • Implemented minimal staffing levels to run plant.
  • Transitioned shift handoffs from in-person to digital information-sharing sessions.
  • F&B: shifted managers’ administrative duties to remote model; shortened and staggered restaurant staff schedules to reduce overlap between shifts.
  • If not eligible for full work-from-home schedule, instructed employees to minimize on-site time (ex. lab analysts perform experiments in brewery lab; write reports at home).
  • Prohibited non-employees from facility, except essential contractors/vendors.
    
    
• Improved technology:
  • Expanded VPN (virtual private network) capacity.
  • Increased MS Teams licenses (promoted remote meetings).
  • Assigned additional laptops (facilitated work-from-home transitions).
  • Expanded mobile time clocks (reduced shared contact surfaces).
  • Installed HEPA air filters in common areas.
    
    
• Communication:
  • Daily COVID-19 pulse surveys (segmented by business location).
  • COVID-19 response teams for F&B and plant managers facilitated sharing of best practices, public health directives; questions.
  • Town Hall-style virtual meetings (facilitated by HR, Safety, and Senior Leadership)
  • Ongoing emails, including a “State of the Pandemic” all-employee email in December (highlighting the requirements of Oregon’s OSHA Administrative Rule 437-001-0744).

• To date, have had only 6 positive COVID cases (out of total company size of 230 to a 6.2% weekly positivity rate (Deschutes County) and 4.4% (Multnomah County) (Data for the week of 1/10/21-1/23/21).
• No shutdowns of plant operations due to COVID-19 outbreaks or staffing shortages.
• Employee safety.

Faye Gardner, Director of HR