GOJO Reflects on COVID Impact, Eyes the Future

Posted June 4, 2021 at 12:20 pm



TRSA supplier partner GOJO Industries Inc., Akron, OH, recently discussed with a safety publication the company’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, how it affected its operations amid a surge in demand for its products and how it will operate moving forward.

The article, titled Rising to the Occasion, appeared in EHS Today, a journal for safety professionals. It featured a question-and-answer session with Zach Wemple, the chief human resources officer at GOJO. Wemple discussed the company’s safety protocols, how operations shifted as a result of COVID-19, safely onboarding employees during a pandemic, communicating with employees both in-person and virtually, and how the company’s operations will change moving forward.

“It was a challenging year, but it was also a rewarding one,” Wemple told EHS Today. “If I reflect back on 2020, what’s most remarkable to me is how the team came together. That type of surge in demand could have created a lot of internal friction, but it was great to see how everybody came together as a team. We always talk about the GOJO culture and how strong it is but you really saw some of our GOJO values, like People at the Core and Better Together, in action last year.

“The support that we were able to collectively provide the healthcare workers, the first responders at the time that they needed it most was beyond what I could’ve imagined. Those are some really proud moments to look back on, both what we accomplished and how we were able to accomplish it, that at least for me personally, I’ll continue to take with me.”

To read the full article, click here.

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