McLaren has launched a series of business continuity procedures in response to the coronavirus.

These procedures will safeguard employees and operations, while ensuring the health and safety of customers, colleagues and supply chain partners is a top priority.

Outlining more about its Covid-19 action, McLaren explained in a statement: "We will operate our projects as usual, in compliance with government advice.

"Business continuity procedures established within our business units, projects, and supply chain to ensure the supply of labour resource and materials have been enacted, ensuring focus is on critical elements.

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"As the impact upon the construction industry from COVID-19 develops, we will continue to evolve our mitigation plans as much as possible. This way we can ensure we continue making progress on our projects by looking for alternative materials, management and labour resources.

"Within the individual project contingency strategies, we are planning for all possibilities, which include the minimum level of resource required to operate our sites and project offices safely.

"We continue to advise colleagues on government guidance and are actively promoting preventative measures to minimise the risk of infection. These include continued focus upon hygiene and cleaning, encouraging video conferencing and remote working, as well as flexible working hours and short-term succession planning.

"Our focus is the safe continuity of business during this period and we will continue to review our solutions as the situation evolves."

(CM/JG)