Foxconn and Other Chinese Factories Implement Strict Measures to Prevent Another Outbreak

[MacRumors]

Foxconn and other factories in China have implemented stringent measures to prevent the another viral outbreak in the country, according to an overview of the practices shared today by The Washington Post.

Pages from a manual issued by Foxconn that covers rules employees must follow. Image from The Washington Post.​

Apple iPhone supplier Foxconn, for example, has organized workers into teams of 20 who stick together day and night for health tracking purposes. "The same group of employees work, travel, live, and eat together to ensure that employees' personal trajectories are fully traced," reads a notice from the Zhengzhou government where Foxconn is located.

A Foxconn employee told The Washington Post that workers are provided with a face mask and have their temperatures checked regularly, plus there are infrared cameras to check people for fevers as they walk by. Foxconn said that it is also using nucleic acid tests and chest x-rays when required, and it has produced 10 million surgical masks for employees.

At lunchtime, Foxconn workers eat at cafeteria tables separated from one another by tall dividers. Cafeteria seats even have QR codes that workers can scan so Foxconn has a record of who sat where and when for meals. In the dormitories where they sleep, employees leave their coats and bags in a designated spot for disinfection.

Foxconn and other Apple factories were shut down for much of February due to the outbreak, which has now largely resolved in China. China is mandating that employers check temperatures and provide face masks to employees, as well as submitting daily reports on workers' health statuses. Many businesses in the United States may need to take similar steps when stay at home orders around the country begin lifting.

Other companies in China have implemented similar measures, including preventing employees from leaving factories and going home in some cases, with additional details available in The Washington Post's full report.

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[mikbeth]

Is she dabbing?

 

[DeepIn2U]

Is she dabbing?

Bruh ! you beat me to it ... she is!!!

Dab out covid-19 !

 

[Ronald Reagan]

I’d start with closing down the wet markets, not reopening them (insane).

 

[anthogag]

Perhaps China's communist government can answer one question, why airplanes continued to fly out of China after Wuhan was locked-down.

 

[lunarworks]

Dabbing is so cringe that even viruses nope out.

 

[jamesnajera]

Apple, How about stop making stuff in China? The “savings” aren’t worth it.

 

[sideshowuniqueuser]

Chest x-rays when required! That's scary! We want to make sure you can keep on working, our factories must not stop, but if you die of cancer at some point, too bad.

In fact, the entire description is modern day slavery. Poor bastards!

 

[falkon-engine]

Draconian!

 

[farewelwilliams]

dab sneeze

 

[now i see it]

Soon the USA will follow suit using these protective measures (we hope). But to think that the USA CDC was telling the entire population of US citizens NOT to wear a mask up to just a week or so ago - maybe not.
History will not look back kindly on the lax.

 

[Eriamjh1138@DAN]

Wonder if they have health care if they do get sick.

 

[dannyyankou]

I’d start with closing down the wet markets, not reopening them (insane).

Yep. Some things were never meant to be, like bat soup.

 

[JPack]

Chest x-rays when required! That's scary! We want to make sure you can keep on working, our factories must not stop, but if you die of cancer at some point, too bad.

In fact, the entire description is modern day slavery. Poor bastards!

Yes, Foxconn should be more like New York State and not have enough equipment. New York had to pay $250,000 for X-ray machines that normally costs $30,000.

 

[jack1234567]

Perhaps China's communist government can answer one question, why airplanes continued to fly out of China after Wuhan was locked-down.

Perhaps US' democratic government should also answer, why airplanes from China not blocked for landing after Wuhan was locked-down.

 

[iPlayStation]

Perhaps China's communist government can answer one question, why airplanes continued to fly out of China after Wuhan was locked-down.

When Wuhan was locked-down, people are not even allowed to go out from home in Wuhan. Visitors were not allowed to go back either. China’s map is big. When Italy was locked down, other European countries still allowed to fly out. Also Australia government ordered a flight to bring Australian residents back home on the Christmas Island for quarantine. Possible other countries did that too.

 

[firewood]

This is why Apple has to build stuff in China. Can you imagine trying to get a bunch of Americans in their 20’s to follow all those rules and let themselves be tracked all day and night to make sure they do? Maybe just that percentage that enlists in military service would have the needed discipline.

 

[cb3]

Were did they get their masks from? 🙄

 

[fairuz]

I’d start with closing down the wet markets, not reopening them (insane).

Wet market means meat market basically. Everywhere has them. Problems only arise when they're doing sketchy things like keeping live animals or selling unusual meat.

 

[farkingdom]

Wet market means meat market basically. Everywhere has them. Problems only arise when they're doing sketchy things like keeping live animals or selling unusual meat.

You do realise these people in China works at the wet market as their only source of income? By closing down it affects their livelihood. I’m all for stringent health checkings at these place but not shutting off the entire thing.

Plus what you eat and what they eat makes not much difference, they are all livestocks. Just because another culture eats differently from you, doesnt mean there wouldn’t be a virus transmission- hello, H1N1 and swine flu and bird flu? Not trying to justify eating bats or what not, but it is a norm practice in many places around the world to eat them, not just China, so I assume you should close ALL wet markets around the world in order to do that.

 

[Blackstick]

Chinese government has to outlaw wet markets housing live animals to make a meaningful impact. This isn’t the first pandemic to originate from one, and it won’t be the last, they’re the country best accustomed to draconian, sweeping regulations- so I’m quite sure it’s being considered.

 

[factcheck999]

Unlike many of you would've imagine, managing a mega factory of 100,000 people is definitely no easy job.

 

[I7guy]

With regards to the regiment i suppose a persons got to do what a persons got to do. Tough times demand tough actions.

 

[MDF314159265]

I like that their instructions look so “happy” and cartoonish. Probably to distract them from the sad fact that they live under socialist rule.

I’d start with closing down the wet markets, not reopening them (insane).

But the wet markets have been around for a LONG time. Much longer than wuhan virus. Most folks had no idea other people ate dogs and cats and snakes regularly until all this stuff happened. I don’t believe the nonsense that this “came from the wet markets” anyway.

 

[Baymowe335]

Apple, How about stop making stuff in China? The “savings” aren’t worth it.

Because it’s not possible and China is one of the few countries where people are going to work, so it’s actually good for manufacturing.