Think of the Atlanta airport terminal and the large maze that is the line that twists and turns, back and forth, to get travelers to security checkpoints.
At Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant, the company has set up a similar operation as employees enter the factory each day, but with social distancing. Workers make their way through the maze where their temperatures are taken by touch-less thermometers and they’re questioned if they’re sick or contacted anyone who is.
It’s one of the steps VW officials said they’ve taken to fight COVID-19 and keep workers healthy as they return from a nearly two-month-long shut down. Manufacturers in the Chattanooga area that closed during the coronavirus lockdown are reopening and taking a variety of measures to safely restart production.
Tom du Plessis, VW Chattanooga’s chief executive, said the mood of employees concerning the 90 or so new safety measures the automaker has put into place is “predominately positive.”
“I’ve found no one saying they don’t want to be here,” he said. “We call it the ‘now normal.”‘