Ford also stopped building F-150 pickup trucks, its biggest money maker, at its Rouge factory in Dearborn, Michigan, when a worker tested positive.
“We’re all figuring this out together,” said spokeswoman Kelli Felker. “The most important thing is that we protect our employees’ safety, and that is exactly what we’re doing.”
Ford requires all workers to wear masks, has outfitted them with watches that buzz when they get too close to one another and uses thermal cameras to check temperatures as they arrive for their shift. But the temperature checks didn’t catch the workers who tested positive inside the plant, Felker said. Details on how they tested positive were unclear, she said.
Ford has publicly released a 64-page return-to-work playbook filled with safety measures it is enacting to protect workers’ health. It also asked President Donald Trump to wear a mask when he tours a Ford factory in Michigan on Thursday. The president has not committed to following that safety protocol.
