Business View Magazine | October 2020

50 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2020 Another recent challenge faced by the company, along with countless others, was during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Obviously, we’re not immune to COVID,” Welch admits. “We battled the same issues that a lot of other people have had. But we’ve had precautions in place; we have safety standards to where we quarantine people if we think they’ve been in contact with somebody. At one point, we actually had about a third of our employees quarantined, or off, because of it. So that really affected our productivity over the past six months or so, which of course, affected our bottom line. But we’ve bounced back now, and we are pretty much at full steam. We do constant reporting to Pepco and our other contractors that we work for. They want to know how many people that you have off and what safety programs and policies that we’ve put in place. So, we’re adapting and modifying and trying to do the best we can with this. Hopefully, we can keep up with it.” Pre-thinking...the process. Box Culverts Sand Filters/Detention Pepco Electrical Vaults BGE Electrical Vaults Custom Structures Wet/Dry Utility Vaults Wet Well/Pump Stations Water Meter Vaults - Pre-piped Septic Tanks 1,000-10,000+ gal. Chestertown, MD www.gillespieprecast.com 1-800-638-6884 Serving MD, DE, DC, Northern VA Southern PA and NJ Family owned-operated since 1922 Donald Clark Owner/President Office 804-493-7475 Mobile 804-761-3399 13848 Kings Hwy, Montross, VA 22520 Mailing: P.O. Box 175, Montross, VA 22520 Excavation & Directional Drilling for all Utilities