Georgia Power remains focused on protecting the safety and health of workers at the Vogtle 3&4 site, and the company has implemented comprehensive plans in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Our proactive steps employ worker distancing strategies, including adjusting break schedules and setting up mobile facilities to add more distance between individuals onsite, as well as expanding our onsite medical clinic. We continue to draw on the expertise of medical professionals and consult the latest recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as we encourage the workforce to more closely monitor their health, report health concerns, and stay home if not feeling well. We have also taken immediate precautionary steps to identify and notify workers who were located in close proximity to individuals being tested and have sent those team members home while we await test results.

Proactive measures put in place by the company to support distancing and hygiene initiatives include:

Adding portable bathrooms and washing stations

Adjusting break schedules

Implementing alternate work schedules to promote social distancing and limit people on one shift from teams when possible

Setting up additional space with overflow mobile facilities

Closing our onsite cafeteria

Suspending onsite mass transit trams and shuttle busses

Limiting one person per transaction for tools and materials pickup

Pre-staging certain tools and materials ready for pickup

Disinfecting tools prior to check-in.

We are also avoiding in-person, large group meetings and gatherings. Instead, we are communicating as much as possible in smaller groups in the field and increasing the use of mobility communications devices, such as smartphones and tablets.

We have expanded our on-site medical capabilities to further support the safety and health of workers at the site. As a part of the expansion of our on-site medical clinic, the company has added the ability to administer flu and other virus tests including COVID-19 using trained medical professionals and approved test kits.

We expect this expansion to result in easier and faster access to medical professionals for workers at the site who may have health concerns. An accredited lab will process any tests that are performed.

The proactive measures mentioned none of the claims made by the employee. Plant Vogtle refused to address the claims specifically.