To further foster a culture of health and workplace safety within EDC, we strengthened our Occupational Health (OH) Team. This collaborative approach was made possible by bringing together our line management, facility
heads, and corporate and site incident management teams.
1. Securing health and welfare of employees during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Enhanced entry screening for personnel and
shelter-in-place (SIP) arrangements
• Compliance with health protocols, pre-entry
quarantine, and testing
• COVID-19 Delta variant preparatory efforts
included air purifiers, medical management
supplies, oxygen tanks, concentrators,
personal protective equipment (PPE) gears,
pulse oximeters, vitamins, and a stock of
approved and recommended COVID-19
treatment regimens and supplies
• Assistance to inflicted employees through
access to teleconsult and helplines, pandemic
care kits, isolation facility hotel with medical
personnel, and securing slots for hospitals
2. Strengthening health troops
• Hired two additional doctors to be part of the
Occupational Health (OH) Team
• Assigned COVID-19 officers to each site and
a COVID-19 specialist fleet-wide
3. Equipping our workforce with vaccine shield
• 99.5% fully vaccinated employees through
our parent company, LGUs, stakeholders, and
contractors
• OH teams working together with local
government units (LGUs)
• Cold storage facilities in each site
• Annual flu vaccine for employees and
dependents
4. Leveraging technology in decision making
• Data collection and reporting system for OH
teams
• Electronic social distancing tags for on-site
workers for enhanced contact tracing were
equipped with an alarm that captures data
when the required social distancing criteria is
breached.
5. Keeping information flowing through communication campaigns
• Launched “Ask Doctors Anything” (ADA)
events with internal and external speakers,
including representatives from the Department
of Health (DOH)
• “Health Top Picks,” which are short talking
points released to employees
• Partnership with LGUs and local media
empowering leaders to be health advocates
6. Improving the health service delivery system
• Medical Services Reimagining Projects that
streamline medical services delivery
• On-site and virtual doctor consultations, along
with nursing care, medicine dispensing and
delivery, online purchasing, and other clinical
services done through a single supplier for
streamlined operations
7. Maintaining employee holistic well-being
• Employee Assistance Program for emotional
and mental health concerns
• By-appointment counseling services
• Learning sessions on emotional health
Adding to these, EDC and its OH Team successfully acquired the Department of Labor and
Employment (DOLE) Safety Seal Certification for all our sites. This brings forward our commitment
to implement health protocols in alignment with the guidelines set by the government for the
safety of our employees, contractors, suppliers, and society.