Our recession recovery support programme continued this week with our focus on Quantifying and offsetting the costs associated with COVID-19 and the innovative solutions our members have deployed to offset these costs.

We delved deeper into the following themes.

• Direct Costs (PPPE, sanitiser, signage etc.)
• Time Cost Implication (screening time and additional processes needed to manage COVID-19) and,
• Shutdown and startup costs

In our weekly discussions, we delved deeper into the following discussion points.

• The cost of PPE
• Costs of Increased screening time
• Increased absenteeism
• Costs of shutting down and reopening
• Sanitising due to infections