SUPDATE ON COVID-19

7 December Update

The health, safety, and welfare of our employees comes first at Aistacs, along with providing excellent customer service..

We have been giving regular updates on our coronavirus preparation and safeguards to our clients, shareholders, and all stakeholders via our website since 3 February.

We are introducing a further significant change to our Covid-19 HSE policy today, which will enable us to maximise the care we provide for our clients while maintaining high standards for both their and our employees’ safety, health, and wellbeing.

Our Commitment to the Health, Safety & Wellbeing of our Employees and our Customers’ Employees

When the virus first appeared, we put in place a special Covid-19 HSE policy, and as the situation changed, we continually updated it to keep the precautions we have in place for all of our employees and our clients up to date and appropriate.

Our Covid-19 HSE policy was first put into place in Greater China; it was then expanded to cover all of our markets when the virus became a global pandemic; we then switched to a post-lockdown HSE policy by market as restrictions started to loosen up and the movement of people (and infection risk) started to rise; and we updated our policy once more as our markets continued to open up after the immediate post-lockdown phase and we began to recognise the possibility of second or further waves.

True to our commitment to put in place the right protections for our people and our customers at the right time, we have been continuously monitoring developments both in the Covid-19 situation and in scientific understanding of this new virus.

The latest update to our Covid-19 HSE policy reflects important recent developments in understanding of the virus, including: the increasing consensus that aerosol transmission may be the primary means of infection; and the growing evidence, based on documented cases of infection, that “viral load” builds up over time in unventilated and enclosed spaces.

Key changes in our updated policy include:

• requiring sites to increase natural ventilation by opening doors and windows where possible
• recommending limiting internal and external physical meetings to 30 minutes
• requiring any person who is given special dispensation to travel internationally by air to take a Covid-19 test within 48 hours of departure.

The extremely thorough control, cleanliness, and prevention measures already included in our policy—including the sanitization of our facilities in accordance with Covid—will be maintained. They consist of the following:

• All employees are required to wear face masks, including when commuting on public transport and travelling for work – and we have secured supplies of these for all our people
• We will maintain a minimum social distancing of at least 1m (or greater, if required by local law) between people in our facilities
• We will continue to ask visitors to our facilities to comply with certain health and safety requirements
• International business travel is not permitted without special approval and in line with our policy – including additional PPE measures.
• All employees who visit client or field locations are required to wear a face mask and comply with our own control, hygiene and prevention measures at a minimum.

In addition to our Covid-19 HSE policy, we have issued extensive communications to all our people in line with World Health Organisation guidance on how to minimise the risk of viral infection to them and others by taking effective hygiene measures and avoiding situations where the risk of infection could be heightened.

The actions we have taken globally include:

• Issuing face masks to all employees.
• Posters and videos, providing guidance to employees and visitors to Aistacs facilities.
• Health alerts and guidance to our colleagues, including a detailed “Novel Coronavirus Control and Prevention Manual”.
• In accordance with this manual, we have hygiene and other protection measures in the workplace, at home and at customer locations for field-based colleagues.
• When conducting field-based Health assessments for factories, vendors or customer sites, we will be asking our partners to first confirm they have no suspected cases of coronavirus and have taken their own precautionary measures before we deploy our people, excluding where we conduct unannounced management system audits.

Our Commitment to our Customers

At Aistacs, we proclaim to all of our internal and external stakeholders that our commitment to health, safety, and welfare is a fundamental value.

For its clients to be able to run efficient supply chains in each of their businesses, Aistacs offers mission-critical quality assurance solutions.

Recognizing that government efforts to suppress the virus may cause some interruption, Aistacs enterprises are continuing to run as usual throughout the world. To lessen the possibility of a disruption to the operations of our clients’ supply chains, we are maintaining regular contact with our customers and have implemented our business continuity plans across all of our operations.

To let our customers know about our particular Novel Coronavirus resources and services, we upgraded our customer service library.

In order to address the global health and safety issues associated to Covid-19, we can also advise new producers on the difficult safety and quality standards while making critical care equipment.

Never before have our lives’ various facets depended so heavily on our health, safety, and wellbeing. Employees and customers turn to brands for trust, assurance, and peace of mind whether they are at work, shopping, dining out, or utilising public transportation. The world’s first end-to-end health, safety, and wellbeing assurance programme for individuals, workplaces, and public spaces, Aistacs Protek provides solutions for audits, training, inspection, verification, and certification.

Customers can read more about our latest solutions and contact us for immediate assistance here: https://aistacs.com/

Should customers need further information, please contact your Aistacs representative who will assist.

Covid-19 remains a developing situation and we will provide regular updates.