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Awareness Campaigns situation evolves and the yard has prepared
Advisory on containment of COVID-19 like Do’s & plans for opening work fronts considering
Don'ts, Videos on effective hand wash and proper various scenarios of lifting of lockdown.
sanitization etc. are regularly displayed on the • In the interim, all completed and installed
digital display board to bring in awareness among equipment/system are regularly kept alive
all the employees including contract workers. and maintained with skeletal staff ensuring all
precautions as required. This is also extended to
Preventive Guidelines on COVID-19 are displayed yard assets such that these are readily available
on Boards erected at various prominent locations of for exploitation as and when the lockdown is
the shipyard. eased and work front can be opened to in-house
and contracted workforce.
Any Other Significant Measures taken by the • In order to ensure effective ‘Work from Home’,
Company
HoDs and key personnel have been provided
Following activities have been undertaken by the VPN access to carry-out essential work on SAP
shipyard during the lockdown period (25 March – & intranet. While doing so, adequate precautions
03 May 2020): have been taken to ensure the cyber security
• During lockdown, only essential services and of the IT network. NIC E-mail platform is
functions related to maintenance, sanitation,
security & medical services have been continued
by deployment of bare minimum personnel.
• 450 passes have been obtained from the District
Collector Office for safe to & fro passage of the
people from residence to HSL for undertaking
the above-mentioned essential services at HSL,
as exempted vide MHA guidelines/ government
directives.
• Draft de-lock plan for resuming operations post
lockdown has been prepared and forwarded
to MoD/DDP. Further, ‘Mitigation Plans’ to
minimise the impact of lockdown and ‘Catch
up Plans’ to meet the committed production
schedule are worked out dynamically as the

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