Thank you, Mental Health Wellbeing & Colleague Protection
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Published 5 Apr 2020 in Things that matter to you
Thank you, Mental Health Wellbeing & Colleague Protection
Thank you
We know that you are doing an incredible job, going above and beyond to help our members, customers and fellow colleagues, whilst adapting to this ever-changing and challenging time. We continue to be really grateful for all you’re doing, thank you.
Mental Health
We’ve had a great message from Paul, at Springfield Mind – thanking us for everything we’ve done in the community, and giving some great hints and tips for mental wellbeing at this time. Click here to see the video.
We want to ensure we are doing everything we can to help you at this time, and if you have any further ideas or comments then please, let us know using the comments section below or via your line manager. Thank you again for all YOUR efforts, it is appreciated.
Colleague Protection:
Our priority is and will remain the protection and welfare of colleagues and we are doing everything we can to ensure we continue to have appropriate supplies of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for colleagues who need them. We have many supplies that have now been delivered to sites, with stock of hand sanitiser, gloves and face masks arriving daily and more stock being procured.
The roll out of protective screens continues across all stores.
Social distancing:
This is one of the most important areas for all of us. We have given guidance to each trading site on this already and many measures have now been taken and implemented. PoS is in place across all sites and further stock of Social distancing PoS is arriving in Food stores this week to help our customers adhere to the guidance.
Social distancing measures in place are:
Limiting the number of customers at any one time in food depending upon the size of the store and taking similar measures in funeral and pharmacy branches.
Displaying point of sale to encourage customers to keep their distance in queues or walking around stores.
Driving telephone contact rather than face-to-face across our Travel and Funeral groups.
Actioned temporary closures for a limited time during the day in Pharmacy and some food sites to enable shelf-filling and cleaning whilst maintaining distance.
Another happy customer in Bloxwich after rolling out the local home delivery service
Childcare spaces available for critical key workers, help us let them know.
Co-op Childcare has a number of spaces available for key workers at some of their nurseries, we are asking everyone including regional community partners, members, partner schools, community groups, unions etc. to share our message and let key workers know we are here for them and we need your help too.
We have spaces available now in some of our nurseries for 6 months to 8-year-olds.
If you know anyone that might need childcare, please direct them to our Childcare website here for more details and share the Facebook post, which you can access the here.
Thumbs Up - #TeamMC
We’ve had a great response to the call so far, but want to continue sharing your messages and Thumbs Up, celebrating #TeamMC so please keep them coming in (see the latest here). Simply post a picture of yourself and/or their team on their trading group’s internal Facebook pages with their thumbs up. We’d like you to accompany it with one sentence outlining why you’ve given yourselves, your team or a team member a ‘thumbs up’ today along with the hashtag #TeamMC.
This could be some great feedback you’ve had for going above and beyond or something you’ve done to help the community that you’re proud of or just the welcome news that all your team is fit and healthy. If you don’t have access to Facebook you can email us at thumbsup@midcounties.coop.
We want to ensure we are doing everything we can to help you at this time, and if you have any further ideas or comments then please, let us know using the comments section below or via your line manager. Thank you again for all YOUR efforts, it is appreciated.
John Street
Coronavirus Co-ordinator