Unique Partnership Featured At Chamber Briefing

The Washington County Chamber of Commerce continued their Thursday Morning Briefing series by hosting Officials from Frazier Simplex and Vigilant Technologies. The Covid-19 crisis reunited two college classmates at two vastly different aged companies to coordinate efforts in screening employees for symptoms of Covid-19. John Frazier III from Frazier Simplex in Washington was looking for a method to keep his employees safe from the coronavirus at his 103 year old company. He saw a press release from Andy Chen of 4 year old Vigilant Technologies and reunited with his classmate to implement Vigilant Technologies’ symptom screening, tracking and contact tracing system at Frazier’s specialty glass factory. Frazier was looking for a method to keep his employees safe in his factory but he also is using the system at his company’s construction sites. Chan described his application as totally touch free as employees fill out screening questions on their phone or computer before work. At the workplace temperatures are scanned by computer and officials at Frazier Simplex are alerted to any concerns. Frazier likes the system because it allows him to be able to immediately deal with an employee who has symptoms and he can send that employee home or to a hospital to get tested. Frazier is extremely pleased with the ease of the system and the elimination of exposure by an employee. Chan works with companies of all sizes and indicates that this system could be important in having screening done by school districts as they try to reopen.