Health & Safety

Health & Safety

2022 Pandemic Endurance

Dear Colleagues,  I hope you and your families had a joyful and restful holiday season and are in good health and recharged for the coming year.

As 2022 begins, we are witnessing a strong resurgence in COVID-19 cases worldwide, fueled by the highly transmissible Omicron variant. Even though this variant appears to produce less severe illness than earlier waves, we must keep our guard up.

Compliance with our COVID Protocols and Behaviors that Save Lives have proven to be a critical factor in containing the number of contagions in our teams. We must keep following the protocols and urge our team and family members to embrace the behaviors.  As in previous variants, early detection is important to minimise effects and to reduce the possibility of transmission to others. Be very vigilant of symptoms and report them as soon as possible.

We encourage you to get fully vaccinated and, if available, get a booster shot, as studies have shown that the risk of hospitalisation is significantly lower for people who had received two or three vaccine doses compared with unvaccinated people.

Some of our offices have reopened as local conditions allow, but we encourage remote working where possible during this wave.

We continue to track the evolution of the pandemic through our Global Rapid Response Team. Health & Safety is our top priority, and we will continue doing everything possible to keep the CEMEX community safe.

Best regards,  Alberto

(Alberto Luis De Armas, Vice-President Organisation and Human Resources)