Weedon PSC Produces Mini Standee to Help Keep Children Safe at School

As schools begin to look to opening their doors again, Hednesford-based Weedon PSC has used its packaging skills in an ingenious new way to help primary schoolchildren keep their distance from each other. The company, which is the UK’s top independent producer of Retail Ready Packaging (RRP) and Point of Sale (POS) displays, has developed a mini standee, a corrugated cardboard cut-out of a child, which is being snapped up by schools all over the country.

These little ‘people’ stand 1 metre tall and can be positioned to mark how far apart children need to be to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus. The design was developed by Weedon PSC’s in-house design team, following the success of an adult-size standee which the company has been producing for businesses to use, for example, on a production line or in a supermarket queue. The standees are strong but lightweight and can therefore be easily repositioned as needed. The feet of the mini standees have been strengthened to add increased stability in the rough and tumble of the playground.

Weedon PSC has been inundated with requests from headteachers from as far afield as Cornwall, the Lake District and Essex, and is producing the standees in time for the reopening of schools. They are available in packs of five and the firm is selling them at cost.

Weedon PSC Managing Director John Weedon comments:

“After the Government announced that schools should be preparing to readmit pupils, we were approached by a headmaster who had heard about the standees we were producing for factories and shops.

“We were concerned that these adult standees, which are 2 metres tall, might seem a little threatening to small children, so our design team set to work on something which is more child-friendly.

“We are using the adult standees in our own factories, to help protect our machine operators. They make it very easy to measure a safe distance between workers and prevent staff getting too close to each other and potentially spreading the virus. Hopefully the mini version will help to keep children safe at school.

“The standee is only one of the clever ideas our designers have had to use corrugated board to help in these difficult times. We also developed a flat-packed desk for home working and various alternative ways of distributing and displaying food to increase speed to shelf and to protect consumers and delivery drivers.”

Potential purchasers can find out more about the standee by emailing: contact@weedongroup.com.

For further information in relation to this news release, please contact:

John Weedon, Managing Director of the Weedon Group, on 01543 423838.