A letter from Tom Sellars Chairman & CEO
We’re in this Together Without our customers there would be no sales and without our people we would have no products to sell--- no business would exist. So, we are dependent on each other.
Dear Valued Customer, Sellars is an “Essential Business” that has continued to operate safely 24 hours, 6-7 days per week at multiple locations during the pandemic to provide products that keep people and their work environment clean and safe. We appreciate your business and your understanding of the many extraordinary challenges of manufacturing safely during this unprecedented pandemic. We especially appreciate your help in working with us when there are specific supply challenges. We value the trust that you place in us as we continue to serve you. We value the trust that our employees have in us to keep them safe and informed. We’ve taken our responsibility very seriously. There have been countless hours and sleepless nights as we worked and worried. I’m proud to say that our people, who truly care about our customers, have risen to this crisis by continuing to come to work as we’ve worked through many obstacles. We’re dedicated to serving our customers. We also have a fiduciary and moral responsibility to provide a safe workplace for our people which we are very committed to do. We’ve been working intensely on operating safely during this pandemic since early March which is when we established a COVID Task Force to meet weekly, and a Health and Safety Sub-Committee to meet daily. Both are chaired by me and our members are deeply committed.
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Our guiding principle is that while serving our customers, we would continue operating machines, shifts, plants only while we were able to reasonably protect our people. As such, the prudent course of action was to intensely prepare for a potential bad storm and implement our many actions, following the old adage that it is “better to be safe than sorry”. We’ve followed or exceeded CDC guidelines in developing new policies, procedures, and actions. This presentation shares with you some background and the many actions that we’ve put in place to protect our people which enables us to continue to serve you. We have been working intensely on an on-going basis to identify and implement what we can do to keep operating safely while making the quality products that you need. We’re a leader in mitigating COVID in the workplace. You can take comfort that our people are remaining safe as they make your products. We appreciate your business which is providing meaningful employment for our people. Best Regards, Tom Sellars Chairman & CEO
Operating During COVID Our Guiding Principles
§ We have a shared fiduciary and moral responsibility to provide a safe workplace for our people, and our people have a responsibility to follow protocol to keep each other safe. § We value the trust that our employees have in us to help keep them safe and informed. § We value the trust that our customers place in us as we continue to serving them. § While serving our customers, we will only continue operating machines, shifts, and plants while we are able to reasonably protect our people. § By continuing to operate safely and serve our customers, we are also protecting the health of our business which benefits our people and customers. § We are grateful for our employees. We and our employees are grateful to our customers whose sales enable meaningful work with full pay and benefits during this pandemic.
Mandatory Weekly COVID Testing • In coordination with City of Milwaukee Health Dept., all MIlwaukee employees and temps are utilizing one of the two sites that will test people without symptoms • Hourly employees are being paid for time spent getting tested, which applies to overtime
Mandatory Use Face Masks & Face Shields Company provides both for work and home As most of us are not familiar with wearing a mask, here are some helpful hints for usage: • Never touch the outside of your mask • Remove your mask using the ear strings • Replace your mask after it is visibly soiled or is damp • When eating, place your mask on a towel or napkin face down • Wash your hands or use sanitizer before and after wearing your mask • Fit matters! Your mask should fit snugly, but comfortably • Your mask needs to be cover your nose and mouth
Supplies • • • • •
Face masks Gloves Sanitizer Stylus Lunch/ breakroom spaces
We provide employees a stylus for use on time clocks and HMI screens on machines.
1 of 2 rented temporary lunch/break room
Education Examples Hygiene/Mask Education As most of us had not familiar with wearing a mask, education was needed on usage: • Never touch the outside of your mask • Remove your mask using the ear strings • Replace your mask after it is visibly soiled or is damp • When eating, place your mask on a towel or napkin face down • Wash your hands or use sanitizer before and after wearing your mask • Fit matters! Your mask should fit snugly, but comfortably • Your mask needs to be cover your nose and mouth
We have hand sanitizer in each public area and office.
Mandatory Daily Questionnaire To proactively keep potentially sick from entering the workplace and infecting others To also help educate people on potential risks and preventive behaviors •
Have you, or someone in your household, or someone you know been diagnosed with COVID or is waiting for a test result?
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Are you, or anyone in your household sick, or feeling symptoms?
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Have you, or anyone in your household been exposed to someone either with COVID or waiting for a test result?
Mandatory Daily Temperature Testing
We provide free thermometers to employees for home use.
Facilities Lockdown •
Facilities closed to all non-essential vendors
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Essential Vendors subject to all of the Company’s safety protocols except weekly COVID testing. (Although cleaning company personnel are testing.)
Each production line’s common surfaces are cleaned at the start and end of each shift (between shifts cleaned twice)
Cleaning & Disinfecting
Lunch Rooms
Limited seating for distancing (additional lunch/ breakroom trailers rented)
Vending machine usage with glove
Cafeteria spacing Mounted free gloves provide touch-free vending
Ancillary Lunch/Break Rooms & Bathrooms helps enable production teams to maintain discreet cells
Cafeteria spacing
temporary lunch/break rooms being rented premium restrooms being rented
Maintaining Work Cells • Production teams stay within their team while working, on break, and in lunch rooms. • Shifts do not physically intersect with each other. • That way if a person or team get infected, it does not quarantine other assets or even an entire shift
We use color floor markings and signs to remind workers to maintain their location at their station away from each other and practice social distancing on breaks.
Social Distancing Manufacturing
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Manufacturing Floor
Social distancing guidelines are well marked throughout. Floors are marked to stay 6 feet apart.
Custom plexiglass dividers Being created inhouse
Supervisor overseeing social distancing and safety compliance from a remote station overlooking the manufacturing floor in addition to closed circuit oversight by station.
We use color floor markings and signs to remind workers to maintain their location at their station away from each other and practice social distancing on breaks. .
Plant Workstation Safety Barriers Plexiglass Dividers
Manufacturing Floor
Meeting Rooms • Limited capacity with spacing • Face masks or shields required
Plexiglass Dividers Plexiglass dividers added to reduce the spread of germs between cubicles in the office areas
Office Area Social Distancing Signs and guidelines throughout the office area
Supporting our People Additional Policies
Government mandated Benefits • Following Federal Families First Corona Virus Response Act (FFCRA) Sellars additional Benefits •
10 days of Emergency Paid Sick Leave provided in addition to PTO
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Suspension of attendance accountability points
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Subsidy for home childcare for those affected by the school and day care closings
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Full pay and benefits for close contacts who are quarantined
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Hiring of Family & Friends who are unemployed