Leonardo and the FIM FIOM and UILM National Secretariats have shared and signed a corporate protocol regulating measures to combat and contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus in the workplace. Priority is the protection of public health. At the same time, the parties deem it appropriate to avoid the complete interruption of industrial operations, in compliance with the provisions contained in the Prime Ministerial Decree of 11 March.
Therefore, moving from the common goal of further intensifying the initiatives undertaken so far to ensure the highest possible level of prevention and protection within the workplace, Leonardo and the trade unions. they said that the continuation of the production activities will presuppose a punctual evaluation of the conditions that ensure people the prescribed levels of protection. Considering that, on the basis of the Prime Ministerial Decree of 11 March and of the 14 March Protocol, the main safety measure to be adopted is that of the distance between workers of at least one meter and that only where it is not possible to achieve this distance, considering the specific processes of the Establishments, it will be mandatory to equip the staff with the prescribed security measures, in accordance with the Protocol of March 14th.
On this basis, the emergency management plan has therefore been prepared, valid from 16 to 25 March 2020, which will be structured in two sub-periods:
1. On the days of 16 and 17 March, two days of suspension of activities will be activated in all the Group's plants / offices / offices to guarantee the start of extraordinary cleaning and sanitation of the company premises and, more generally, the massive planning and launch of all interventions that guarantee full compliance with the measures prescribed by the Protocol of 14 March.
During the suspension days, however, essential activities will be guaranteed for the safeguarding, maintenance and continuity of IT systems and infrastructures and internal or external services for receiving and shipping goods;
- the functional activities for unwavering business needs and / or commitments made to customers;
- activities related to sectors of public utility, security, health and armed forces;
- the activities necessary for carrying out work to intensify workplace prevention and safety measures and for finding the equipment or services necessary to guarantee compliance with the protocol of 14 March.
The coverage of these activities can be guaranteed with physical on-site monitoring or, where possible, for the remotability of the activities and the availability of IT equipment, in smart working. Coverage of absence will be guaranteed through the use of collective PAR by all workers, except those commanded for the needs represented above.
2. On March 18-25, suspensions / reductions of selective and modular activities will be active, achieved through progressive partial reactivations of operating activities; the identification of the activities affected by a progressive reactivation and those characterized by the continuity of the suspension will be carried out by each Division and shared with the RSU / RLS of the Plants on the basis of the two competing needs to guarantee, on the one hand, the continuity of the business with completion of activities that cannot be postponed through both on-site and remote controls and, on the other hand, to intensify the work aimed at guaranteeing full compliance with the safety measures with respect to the provisions of the Protocol of March 14th.
Coverage of absence will be guaranteed through the use of holidays from previous years / PAR / paid permits / recovery permits (defining how to use them) / hour bank with subsequent recovery of lower services and the actual type of hedging institutions used and the relative hierarchy will be shared locally according to the duration of the suspensions and the analysis of the residual institutions.
All organizational measures - in terms of working hours, shifts and breaks - aimed at avoiding as much as possible incoming and outgoing contacts, in common areas and alternating between shifts, to decongest the production and to create autonomous, distinct and recognizable groups.
The corporate functions that operate at the Divisions will be involved in the locally defined suspension plans, also with regard to the coverage criteria for days of absence.
A specific committee was also set up to verify the application of the rules of the protocol of March 14th. Beyond the calls that will become necessary in the emergency phase management period, the Committee will meet remotely on March 17 and March 24 to evaluate, also in light of the evolution of the ongoing epidemiological phase, any further solutions to guarantee worker safety and the progressive and / or integral recovery of operational activities.
