SEAT collaborates in vaccine rollout.

To support the Balearic Islands in reaching this ambitious goal, SEAT S.A. will provide three bespoke medical motor homes, with one doctor and three nurses in each, to provide easy access to vaccinations. Alongside the medical practitioners, and in accordance with the Health Service of the Balearic Islands, SEAT S.A.’s highly trained health professionals will support the immunisation of local citizens. Thanks to this commitment, the SEAT S.A. medical team will be able to administer approximately 20,000 doses per week. Other companies such as Meliá, Baleària, Vueling and the car rental association Baleval will also help with the plan by providing support for travel, transport and accommodation of professionals and materials.

SEAT S.A. has led the way in ensuring its people could work safely and stay healthy during the pandemic. When production restarted in April 2020, SEAT S.A. was the first company to carry out mass-PCR tests for all its employees. It did this in the knowledge that, even if production slowed down due to limited staff numbers, the health of its people and communities was more important than simple production numbers.

Now, nearly 18 months on, SEAT S.A. is in the process of de-escalating these safety measures, strictly adhering to governmental guidelines and recommendations. Certain essential measures will continue to be maintained – such as the use of masks, social distancing and the ventilation of indoor spaces – while other aspects will be relaxed. For instance, meetings will no longer have capacity restrictions, temperature controls at building entrances will be removed, and employees will be provided with more flexibility when it comes to their day-to-day working habits.

“The preventive measures SEAT S.A. put in place, even before the health crisis became a global pandemic, were instrumental in ensuring our employees stayed safe. As a result, we’ve made of SEAT a European ‘Green Zone’ with a very low number of infections. Additionally, we’ve vaccinated over 10,000 of our workers and suppliers so far, and 70% of our workforce over 40 years old are already immunised” said Dr. Patricia Such, SEAT S.A. Health, Safety and Emergency Director. “Now we’ve made it our mission to help the regional Health Authorities with their vaccination effort with the aim of steadily moving together towards the long-awaited new normality that we all want so much.”

SEAT S.A. has a strong culture of prevention and care for its workers. With the onset of the pandemic, the company stopped production as this was the only possible way to guarantee the safety of its employees. It then launched a project to manufacture more than 600 emergency respirators and surgical masks, which were distributed to various Spanish hospitals at a time when there was a severe shortage of medical equipment. Since May 2021, SEAT S.A. has been providing its employees, including those within the wider Volkswagen Group, access to vaccines.