June 1, 2020
June 1, 2020
Dear Vecova community,
We have seen some incredible acts of kindness, service and selflessness at this time that is truly representative of who we are. This incredible outpouring of encouragement from all of you – our consumers, our partners and supporters and our employees – has been a great comfort.
As Vecova responded proactively to the COVID-19 emergency, we have also proactively been preparing for our business recovery. We have been readying to begin to gradually resume our programs and services, reopen our facilities to our consumers and to provide re-entry to our employees over the next 3-4 months in a well-planned and thought out staged process. This staged process will be in:
As we begin to gradually resume our programs and services, reopen our facilities to our consumers and to provide re-entry to our employees over the next 3-4 months in a well-planned and thought out staged process –Vecova will put safety first. There will be strict safety guidelines in place for our consumers and our employees. We will ready our programs, services and facilities for our consumers and our employees and install physical distancing measures, set consumer and employee program, service and facility capacity restrictions, set health and screening protocols and set new enhanced cleaning and disinfecting measures.
While we begin to recover, we must stay vigilant and follow all public health measures, practice physical distancing and good hygiene, and continue acting responsibly. Our collective efforts will ensure Vecova’s relaunch strategy will be successful.
If at any time, we feel the health and safety of our consumers and employees cannot be successful managed we will act accordingly.
During the pandemic response, Vecova followed the strongest public health guidelines from Health Canada and Alberta Health Services, the advisories issued from the Government of Canada and the emergency measures enacted by the Government of Alberta and the City of Calgary to manage COVID-19. This resulted in Vecova:
Early actions allowed some of Vecova’s programs and services to remain operational. These included:
Stage 1 allowed Vecova to resume some of its programs and services with: service adjustments; physical distancing requirements; health and screening protocols; enhanced cleaning and disinfecting measures; and other public health guidelines in place. This included:
Stage 2 will allow Vecova to resume some additional programs and services, reopen some of its Recycling Service facilities to our consumers and to provide re-entry to some of our employees with: service adjustments; program, service and facility capacity restrictions; physical distancing requirements; health and screening protocols; enhanced cleaning and disinfecting measures; and other public health guidelines in place. This includes:
Stage 3 will allow Vecova to resume more of its programs and services, reopen the remainder of its facilities to our consumers and to provide re-entry to our employees in a staged process with: service adjustments; program, service and facility capacity restrictions; physical distancing requirements; health and screening protocols; enhanced cleaning and disinfecting measures; and other public health guidelines in place. This includes:
Stage 4 allows Vecova to assess and resume its contracts for service with other organizations/businesses as they begin to resume their operations. These operations will resume in a staged process with: service adjustments; capacity restrictions; physical distancing requirements; health and screening protocols; enhanced cleaning and disinfecting measures; and other public health guidelines in place.
As a result, for the most up-to-date information, please continue to check-in here: https://www.vecova.ca/covid19
All the best,
Joan Lee
Chief Executive Officer
Vecova