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Tyson Foods Installs Walk-Through Temperature Scanners

The company is installing more than 150 infrared temperature scanners in its production facilities in response to COVID-19.

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Tyson Foods, Inc.

Tyson Foods has purchased more than 150 infrared walk-through temperature scanners from Thermoteknix. So far, the scanners are installed in four facilities: pork plants in Iowa and Indiana and poultry plants in Arkansas and Georgia. The meat and poultry processor expects that eventually every one of its food production facilities will have at least one in place. Hear why Tyson is installing the scanners from Senior Vice President of Health & Safety Tom Brower.

Following are questions and answers from Tyson on the usage of temperature scanners.

Why are you using this technology?

We need to ensure a safe work environment for our people. Exploring ways that are more efficient in keeping our team members safe is never a bad thing. This is a non-contact temperature scanner, so it’s seamless for our team members since all they need to do is walk through the detector zone. It doesn’t disrupt their routine, and it’s faster than using the handheld thermometers.

How do these walk-through scanners work?

All that team members have to do is walk through the detector zone one at a time. The non-contact thermal imaging system tracks them as a screen provides a real-time display of the maximum temperature reading of each person. If a team member’s temperature exceeds a fever-grade temperature, the system sets an alarm. One of our trained professionals will take additional steps and check that team member’s temperature with a temporal thermometer to verify their temperature. If a team member is sick, we’ll send them home.

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