Factories and Covid19

[The Agrarian]

It seems most weeks there is an outbreak at some food factory or other. Whether or not it is an actual outbreak, rather than that Covid has simply been discovered there due to lots of testing on the back of a case with symptoms, is another matter. After all, every food factory probably has a positive at any one time.

It's the measures that are taken after testing reveals lots of cases. Often, its total closure. I find this prospect rather concerning given the nature of milk supply. Can you picture Aylesbury shut for three days? Or my co-op's cheese plant which produces more than 50k tonnes a year?

 

[Lincs Lass]

One at Newark today ,75 confirmed cases

 

[Aircooled]

Business as usual seems to be the only option. Crunch might be too many specialised staff going off. Processors could divert milk elsewhere, thick as thieves remember. I more concerned about then cutting the price at each and every covid hiccup this winter while the grocery delivery man keeps on telling me their booming and their prices are up again.

 

[JCMaloney]

Perfect environments for it. Cool, damp, noisy, folk shouting at each other, lots of car sharing going on for shift patterns with little public transport. Folk from many different homes mingling, "bulk" breaktimes and shift changes. The list goes on ....

 

[Princess Pooper]

It seems most weeks there is an outbreak at some food factory or other. Whether or not it is an actual outbreak, rather than that Covid has simply been discovered there due to lots of testing on the back of a case with symptoms, is another matter. After all, every food factory probably has a positive at any one time.

It's the measures that are taken after testing reveals lots of cases. Often, its total closure. I find this prospect rather concerning given the nature of milk supply. Can you picture Aylesbury shut for three days? Or my co-op's cheese plant which produces more than 50k tonnes a year?

it's the thing that has concentrated our dairy's mind the most since February ... including the tanker drivers going down. Due to the need for training to milk sample when picking up on farm, you can't necessarily phone an agency and get a driver at the drop of a hat like most HGV jobs...

 

[The Agrarian]

Ours too. Heaps of preparation went in early on to be ready for the peak. Factories are on staggered shifts, staggered breaks, with extra distancing between them and so on, training across lines, extra drivers trained...

But what happens if an outbreak is so big, perhaps not through the fault of the factory e.g. foreign staff living in close knit groups, or an outbreak down the local legion - that the factory has to shut to deep clean and in the face of huge public embarrassment? Brand damage if got wrong?

 

[betweenthelines]

Milk factories are highly automated. Probably only half a dozen staff per shift in a bottling hall doing half a million litres/day.

Similar for loading the vehicles

 

[bobk]

Perfect environments for it. Cool, damp, noisy, folk shouting at each other, lots of car sharing going on for shift patterns with little public transport. Folk from many different homes mingling, "bulk" breaktimes and shift changes. The list goes on ....

Well I'm going to say it , not British either .
Black lives do matter , but if they can't help themselves....

 

[betweenthelines]

Well I'm going to say it , not British either .
Black lives do matter , but if they can't help themselves....

What the hell are you on about?

 

[Princess Pooper]

Milk factories are highly automated. Probably only half a dozen staff per shift in a bottling hall doing half a million litres/day.

Similar for loading the vehicles

not the same for stilton that needs turning! Plus multiple packing lines

 

[early riser]

it's the thing that has concentrated our dairy's mind the most since February ... including the tanker drivers going down. Due to the need for training to milk sample when picking up on farm, you can't necessarily phone an agency and get a driver at the drop of a hat like most HGV jobs...

I believe Arla has been training a group of farmers up to to milk sample etc in the event that agency drivers had to be used en masse

 

[Keep On]

Well I'm going to say it , not British either .
Black lives do matter , but if they can't help themselves....

You daft fool. Educate yourself

 

[happycows]

It seems most weeks there is an outbreak at some food factory or other. Whether or not it is an actual outbreak, rather than that Covid has simply been discovered there due to lots of testing on the back of a case with symptoms, is another matter. After all, every food factory probably has a positive at any one time.

It's the measures that are taken after testing reveals lots of cases. Often, its total closure. I find this prospect rather concerning given the nature of milk supply. Can you picture Aylesbury shut for three days? Or my co-op's cheese plant which produces more than 50k tonnes a year?

If it’s reassuring i can tell you that Aylesbury milk factory is a mass of robots being run by a few people in operation rooms. Obviously there are still lots of people about but its not like a slaughter or butchering line, or intensive processing plants.

 

[kiwi pom]

I believe Arla has been training a group of farmers up to to milk sample etc in the event that agency drivers had to be used en masse

Why no auto samplers?

 

[bobk]

You daft fool. Educate yourself

wtf do you know living in the cosy SW , try living with 11 million within 40 miles

 

[Keep On]

wtf do you know living in the cosy SW , try living with 11 million within 40 miles

how sheltered you are. Open your mind and educate yourself

 

[The Agrarian]

900 staff at food processing plants and their families ordered to isolate until August 31

The measures at the 2 Sisters plant in Coupar Angus in Perth and Kinross came after the number of cases connected to the plant rose to 43.

www.telegraph.co.uk

This is the kind of scenario I'm talking about.

 

[Fergieman]

Why no auto samplers?

Its more to operate the autosampler, computer and complete the milk collection.

 

[Aircooled]

900 staff at food processing plants and their families ordered to isolate until August 31

The measures at the 2 Sisters plant in Coupar Angus in Perth and Kinross came after the number of cases connected to the plant rose to 43.

www.telegraph.co.uk

This is the kind of scenario I'm talking about.

Yep and cullybackey pig factory too .