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Dow has developed a coordinated plan to
safely guide our employees and contractors back to the workplace.
Our key principle in this
approach is keeping you and your families safe and healthy.
This accompanying playbook is a resource to guide our
enterprise-wide return to the workplace.
The corporate Crisis Management Team (CMT) will oversee the process
while regional CMTs
will implement it in a phased approach. This will provide the
flexibility to tailor our return to work
based on local, country, and regional factors, while still aligning
to our Corporate Pandemic
Crisis Management Plan. Throughout the process, we will involve key
stakeholders, such as
site and tenant leadership, regional CMT core functions, unions and
work councils (where
applicable), local governments, and key industry
associations.
This approach factors in that additional COVID-19 outbreaks could
reoccur in any geography.
As a result, some areas may be escalating their responses while
others are de-escalating.
Measures may temporarily rise, or be re-introduced, during an
overall effort to reach full
recovery. This is complex. We must be flexible and proactive to
this dynamic, rapidly changing
environment.
I am incredibly proud of how well Team Dow has responded to this
global pandemic so far.
And I know our actions in the next phases will be no different. Our
world may have changed
quickly, but our ingenuity, agility, resilience, and collaborative
spirit did not. We have only grown
stronger, together.
Now, we must apply the can-do spirit that kept our operations
running, our customers well-
served, and our people safe to our return to the workplace. We will
build on the lessons we’ve
learned from colleagues in Asia, who have already made the
transition back to their work sites.
And we will incorporate all we’ve learned from our colleagues who
have continued to keep our
sites running while adhering to all social distancing and other
health and safety best practices.
Throughout this process, we must watch out for one another. We must
share best practices and
key learnings, and adhere to the standards outlined in this return
to workplace guide.