IMCD Canada was commended as a physically safe place to work – a company characteristic that received the highest rating in the Great Place to Work survey. “Safety: It’s My Responsibility” is IMCD Canada’s Health and Safety mission statement and a cornerstone for which it conducts business. It is a high priority for IMCD Canada to emphasize the importance of environmental, health and safety awareness among all employees, customers, and also the public. 

Physical safety in the workplace has been directly affected by the implementation of the hybrid work model. The hybrid model allowed only 50% of the office staff on site and in the building on a given workday. This reduction in capacity created a safe workspace such that employees had room to navigate in hallways, meeting rooms and lunchrooms, without having to contend with a full contingent of employees on site. Moreover, the office workspaces had additional mobile barriers available, if needed. 

For our operational staff team members, we continued to protect the warehouses by restricting office staff from entering the warehouse areas unless authorized to do so. Although, IMCD Canada looks forward to the day when this is no longer a necessity, the protection of the team on the warehouse floor has always been a number one priority in mitigating the risk of infection to our essential team members from any office staff members.