EVRAZ Antivirus

2020: Implementation of the application

On June 18, 2020 Evraz announced implementation of mobile application under the name "Antivirus" which is intended for prevention of spread of a coronavirus of COVID-19 at the enterprises of holding.

"Antivirus" contains the instruction of actions of the employee at COVID-19 infection developed by Evraz and the general recommendations about a quarantine according to requirements of Rospotrebnadzor. To define a circle of contacts of workers with suspicion of an infection, the application anonymously exchanges contacts with devices of other staff of the company who are nearby. Exchange can be performed or automatically through Bluetooth, or in the manual mode. If the employee has a suspicion on COVID-19, all its contacts will receive the notification on need of self-isolation. Thus, service will allow to break off a chain of distribution of COVID-19 quickly.

EVRAZ implemented mobile application for protection of employees against a coronavirus

The department of personnel management can timely communicate with them, discuss the action plan, need of an exit on hospital or transition to remote work from the house — the Head of Department explained Natural resources of Accenture company in Russia and Kazakhstan  Nicolás Gutierrez.

"Antivirus" is created based on the Stopp Corona application which was developed by Accenture company together with the Austrian Red Cross for identification of symptoms of a disease. The Antivirus application  is developed taking into account necessary requirements for personal information protection of employees and includes algorithms on prevention of potential cyberrisks, Gutierrez said.^[1]

By June 18, 2020 Antivirus is implemented in divisions Ural and Siberia, the application will be available to all staff of the company. For each installation of the application Evraz allocates funds for acquisition of means of protecting and anti-septic tanks for medical institutions in regions of presence of the company.

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