The Safety Letterbox Company | finding our new normal
Last Monday the factory returned with a skeletal team to continue with orders that have been on hold since the temporary closure of the factory back in March. There is a limited number of the team in the factory at any given time to ensure we are adhering to the government guidelines of two-metre social distancing. The team are equipped with essentials such as glasses, masks or visors for their safety and the safety of […]
The Safety Letterbox Company | Manufacturing Safely and responsibly
As a responsible and established UK manufacturer, we continue to face daily challenges while negotiating our way through the days and weeks of uncertainty that comes with Covid-19. On the 17th March 2020, we announced that we were taking new measures to minimise disruption to the business while ensuring the safety of our employees and protecting the NHS. We implemented many procedures to ensure that we were prepared for all aspects of this crisis. These […]
RESILIENCE IN BRITISH MANUFACTURING
While we all find ourselves in such unprecedented times, we are all doing what we can to try to flatten the curve. In our case, it involves our office teams from all departments working remotely at home, and our factory is temporarily on ‘pause’. At the same time, we prepare to work in line with customers requirements returning to a skeleton operation with our existing segregation, adhering to the 2-metre law and with maximum protection […]
UPDATE | Factory temporary closure | Office open as usual
While our Government and NHS are fighting this emergency and in our full support of them and the attempt to flatten the curve, we must act fast. We have therefore decided to temporarily close our factory and offices, effective from close of business on Wednesday the 25th of March 2020. We are doing this to keep our employees at home, for their and all our safety. We hope our customers will respect and understand our […]
UPDATE | From the CEO & Managing Director Alison Orrells
It’s been a challenging and ever-changing situation for us all. Over the last six weeks, we had implemented new rules and disciplines when the first cases started to emerge in the world by purchasing hand wash, anti-bacterial gel, masks, PPE and cleaning solutions. Since then, we have secured raw materials stored off-site for contingency and pipeline disruption, established our flow of work electronically, adopted Microsoft Teams and installed most of our office personnel in their […]