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Industry Engagement Survey Results
MINTRAC undertook an industry engagement exercise and targeted 15 meat industry employers across the processing, small goods, retail and butchery sectors. A survey was used to collect useful insights relating to Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) risks being experienced as a result of the COVID19 pandemic. Respondents overwhelmingly agreed that:• There has been (either) a temporary or permanent loss in employee numbers.• There has been a need to tighten OHS policies to protect workers and the workplace. • There has been increased costs involved with making changes to the workplace when responding to OHS threats.• Employees have been impacted mostly due to forced workplace absence. Below is a snapshot of some insightful responses to the survey. View the graphs by clicking to enlarge the images below. To read the survey in full, you can download the report in its entirety using the "View Results Here" button below.
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Industry has had to adopt workplace OHS policies to respond rapidly and broadly to the onset of COVID19 and subsequent risks to business continuity. Adopting tighter visitor and non-essential worker entry policies to contain the risk of virus introduction or spread is reported as the most widely adopted policy change.
14 out of 15 stakeholders indicated that adopting changes to the workplace drove up costs. Site changes including floor markings, installing physical barriers, sanitation stations etc was the leading cause of cost increases when responding to OHS risks.
Employee wellbeing during the pandemic has been widely reported as a huge concern to the workforce. Employers indicated that employees being forced to stay at home either during site lockdowns or when self-isolating were the two biggest impacts on employees.