Standing Up To Covid-19

SIG has launched a new online sto­ry hub, fea­tur­ing the lat­est activ­i­ties and actions the com­pa­ny is tak­ing as part of a glob­al response to the ongo­ing Covid-19 pan­dem­ic. The sto­ry hub is now live at www.sig.biz and will be updat­ed in the com­ing weeks and months as the com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to act and respond to the new Covid-19 reality.

Since the start of the Covid-19 out­break, SIG has been tak­ing deci­sive action in a num­ber of ways as indi­vid­u­als, com­mu­ni­ties and a glob­al com­pa­ny. This has includ­ed imme­di­ate actions to pro­tect its employ­ees and cus­tomer sup­ply chains, togeth­er with var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ty projects and dona­tions in the regions it operates.

The new sto­ry hub has been designed to gath­er all these glob­al efforts and ini­tia­tives into one easy-to-nav­i­gate plat­form with three main sto­ry themes: employ­ee sto­ries, food sup­ply sto­ries, and com­mu­ni­ty stories.

Keeping people safe and secure

With health and safe­ty its high­est pri­or­i­ty, SIG has been work­ing to pro­tect the health and well­be­ing of employ­ees across its plants, offices and facil­i­ties. This has includ­ed every­thing from imme­di­ate­ly enact­ing a glob­al pan­dem­ic pre­pared­ness plan and ensur­ing all employ­ees adhere to the strictest hygiene guide­lines, to work­ing remote­ly when and where pos­si­ble as well as organ­is­ing social dis­tance and online workouts.

“The safe­ty of SIG employ­ees is always our high­est pri­or­i­ty. Around the world, our local teams and task forces are not only fol­low­ing offi­cial guid­ance from all rel­e­vant health author­i­ties. They’re often going above and beyond to pro­tect the health and safe­ty of col­leagues through­out our plants, offices and facil­i­ties,” said Ian Wood, Chief Sup­ply Chain Offi­cer, and Leader of SIG’s Glob­al Coro­na Response Team.

Ensuring food stays safe and available

In many coun­tries where it has pro­duc­tion facil­i­ties, SIG is among the busi­ness­es defined as crit­i­cal infra­struc­ture. This means the com­pa­ny can con­tin­ue pro­vid­ing essen­tial ser­vices to soci­ety at a time when reli­able food sup­ply is more impor­tant than ever. And to keep up with the cur­rent demand, SIG has been oper­at­ing at near full capac­i­ty to ensure its cus­tomers can deliv­er a con­tin­u­ous sup­ply of food and bev­er­age prod­ucts to consumers.

“All over the world, busi­ness­es have had to quick­ly change how they work, adher­ing to lock­downs and social dis­tanc­ing,” added Wood. “For those pro­vid­ing essen­tial ser­vices for soci­ety, such as food and bev­er­age com­pa­nies, this has proved par­tic­u­lar­ly chal­leng­ing. So, at SIG, we’ve been doing every­thing we can to keep food sup­ply run­ning as normal.”

Serving communities for the better

Dur­ing Covid-19, SIG has recog­nised that its con­tri­bu­tion to local com­mu­ni­ties is more impor­tant than ever. As a result, the com­pa­ny has been car­ry­ing out and sup­port­ing a num­ber of addi­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty projects. This has includ­ed donat­ing face masks to hos­pi­tals and med­ical cen­tres, pro­vid­ing essen­tial food and hygiene items to dis­ad­van­taged fam­i­lies, and part­ner­ing with pro­duc­ers to deliv­er food and drink prod­ucts to front­line health­care workers.

“At SIG, we know the impor­tance of being part of a com­mu­ni­ty. And now more than ever, we need to con­tin­ue pro­vid­ing com­mu­ni­ty sup­port where and when we can – from help­ing our health­care heroes on the front­line to ensur­ing chil­dren in need receive essen­tial food and aid pack­ages dur­ing this time of uncer­tain­ty,” said Wood.

Read SIG’s Covid-19 sto­ries at: https://www.sig.biz/en/company/standing-up-to-covid19/