At a time when most Americans are sheltering at home, families across the country are relying on their home appliances more than ever, keeping clothes and dishes clean and free from germs, preserving food and medicines in their refrigerators, and cooking several meals a day for the entire household.
GE Appliances, a Haier company, feels they have a critical role to keep America safe at home, servicing, installing and making the appliances people need. GE Appliances continue manufacturing the appliances that are being ordered right now in response to what people need, and GE Appliances are leveraging information from the connected appliances to manage service calls, always following the CDC enhanced COVID-19 prevention recommendations when GE Appliances do need to visit people’s homes.
Manufacturing facilities closed for a week
While continuing to provide these services is essential, promoting the health and safety of the employees is GE Appliances’ number one priority. GE Appliances closed their manufacturing facilities for an entire week, taking unprecedented steps to modify how work is done following the CDC guidelines.
The efforts included implementing no-touch temperature screenings, adjusting manufacturing lines for social distancing, installing barriers between workstations, providing protective equipment, and installing hundreds more hand washing and hand sanitizer stations throughout the plants. GE Appliances continue to take additional measures as they receive feedback from employees and implement any changes recommended by public health officials.
During these challenging times, GE Appliances is also banding together with communities helping those who are working tirelessly for all: healthcare professionals, first responders, and other essential workers.
Donations to healthcare professionals
GE Appliances recently announced the program GEA4Heroes through which—in partnership with United Way Worldwide—a significant portion of the products GE Appliances will make during the first two weeks of April will be donated to those healthcare and first responder professionals in need. But this is not all.
GE Appliances have donated more than 120,000 masks and 100,000 gloves to healthcare facilities and government agencies in the five states where GE Appliances manufactures appliances. GE Appliances continues to identify opportunities to contribute supplies, leverage the supply chain, and donate time and resources.
GE Appliances says they are proud of the work the teams do to help America to stay safe at home. And to the millions of families across the country, know that GE Appliances is working hard for all now, and assure they will always be there for them.