3.2.4. Company Resource Based Mitigation

A key resource at every company, small or large, are the employees. In this period of COVID-19, companies have to take care of this important resource. Best practice literature provides for responses in HR practices, leave, and healthcare, a dedicated COVID-19 HR team, dedicated risk teams, and communication around COVID-19. This is tested with SA Food and Beverage Manufacturing companies and 80% upwards responded that this is already done or being considered with 100% of companies having risk teams and improved COVID-19 communications.

In order to understand company specific mitigation action, the team tests international best practices, as extracted from literature. The key aspects tested includes product management, pricing, staff skills, reviewing planned upgrades, remote work, closure, packaging and online sales, refer to Table 7. Analysis of the FB data indicates four key categories that FB companies have already actioned. These include:


There is a shift to online sales in all company sizes especially in small business.


**Table 7.** Analysis of mitigation measures.


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