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Labour Relations

Managing the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we
work and manage employees. Since the outbreak
of COVID-19, Apical has taken various measures to
ensure our workplace meet strict OHS standards.
This helps to minimise our employees’ risks of
exposure to the virus and to ensure that Apical can
continue operating safely and smoothly.

At the onset of the pandemic, we rolled out the
Business Continuity Plan across the organisation.

When employees were allowed to return to work, employees were provided with open VPN, which
we ensured face masks and hand sanitiser were enabled them to access our company systems
available within our premise. All employees are outside of the office. For our biodiesel plant in
required to comply with strict COVID-19 prevention Huelva, Spain, laptops were provided to employees
measures at workplace. Other safety measures to facilitate the new norm of working from home.
enforced include social distancing and regular At our new PRC refinery, fingerprint scanning was
temperature checks. A guidebook on COVID-19 switched to facial recognition to reduce physical
prevention measures to raise awareness amongst contact and curb the spread of COVID-19. We also
our employees was developed by Marunda and provided training and development opportunities
distributed to all employees. though online platforms. Recognising that the
COVID-19 pandemic may impact individual’s
Each facility is equipped with different resources to mental health, surveys were sent out periodically to
ensure that operations can continue to run smoothly employees in Spain to gauge their well-being during
and efficiently. For our refinery in Nanjing, China, the lockdown period.

All employees are required to comply with strict COVID-19 prevention measures at workplace

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