Heat-Relief and Cooling-Off Campaign

Release Date:

2013-08-11 13:05

This year, sustained high temperatures and scorching weather have prevailed. Despite the sweltering conditions, the Group’s employees have remained steadfast at their posts, ensuring the company’s normal production operations. Each subsidiary has taken proactive measures, implementing a variety of initiatives to provide relief from the heat and deliver cooling support to its workforce.

Zhejiang Steel Structure has, on the one hand, improved employees’ living conditions by installing air conditioning in the canteen and staff dormitories, renovating and upgrading the dormitory buildings, expanding the bathrooms and changing rooms, and carrying out other refurbishments. On the other hand, it has organized “Cooling‑Down” initiatives, providing frontline workers with popsicles, chilled mung bean soup, and other refreshments every afternoon, along with an extra dinner portion and a serving of fruit.

While actively organizing “Cooling‑Down” initiatives, Zhejiang Machinery Company has instituted a policy of extending employees’ lunch breaks when temperatures exceed 40 degrees Celsius. In addition, company leaders take turns working alongside all staff in the workshops to combat the heat, offering moral support. This approach not only helps prevent physical heatstroke but also safeguards employees’ emotional well‑being.

Shandong Company has optimized its operational procedures and flexibly adjusted work schedules, making full use of the cooler morning and evening hours to boost productivity while minimizing work during peak heat. The company has increased the number of fans in workshops, opened windows and doors for better ventilation, and promptly distributed cooling foods and heat‑stroke prevention medications. In the height of summer, in September, all employees at Shandong Company braved the intense heat to achieve record‑high output, setting this year’s production milestone.

Chemical and real estate companies have also taken proactive measures, delivering cooling relief to employees at workshops and construction sites, actively promoting heat‑stroke prevention and cooling‑off strategies, enhancing workers’ safety awareness, and strengthening hygiene management and oversight in company cafeterias to ensure that employees eat well, rest well, and work well.
The implementation of a series of heat‑prevention and cooling measures by each company has brought employees relief, warmth, and heartfelt care, earning their support and enthusiasm. This has sparked a wave of “battling the heat to secure high yields,” significantly boosting production activities.

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