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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 00:00    Print
First Gen adopts anti-H1N1 measures

FIRST Gen Corporation has adopted a comprehensive Influenza A(H1N1) virus response program to help protect employees from the virus and assure the continuity of the company’s operations, including those of its vital power plant installations.
 
Along with Benpres and ABS-CBN, First Gen is one of the first among local companies to draw such a response program. The plan aims to maintain mission-critical operations and services; minimize social disruptions and the economic impact of a pandemic; maintain the safety and health of employees; and reduce transmission of the pandemic virus strain among stakeholders.
 
Under the plan, First Gen has organized two layers of teams tasked to assume management oversight of the situation. The executive management team (EMT), led by president and CEO Federico R. Lopez, hands down high-level decisions while holding the responsibility to manage the flu virus concern on a corporate scale. Under the EMT are asset management teams, which decide individually matters concerning the flu virus issue within their respective plants or office locations.
 
The company has also developed five alert levels in case of a pandemic: Level 1, normal operations, no case in the Philippines; Level 2, some cases in the Philippines, none in First Gen; Level 3, more cases in the Philippines, exists in locality, none in First Gen; Level 4, increasing cases in the Philippines, confirmed cases in locality, at least one case in First Gen; and Level 5, full outbreak, increase of cases in locality, more than two confirmed cases in First Gen.
 
First Gen raised its Level 3 alert on June 1 after the number of confirmed H1N1 cases in the country reached 14. As of press time, the number of local cases has breached the 700 mark, but no case has so far been detected in First Gen. Daily tracking of employees who are sick is also reported to management as basis for declaring Alert Level 4. (Joel Gaborni)

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