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Protect the people who keep food production running
Food manufacturers face rising workforce costs, skills shortages and pressure to maintain productivity and quality. PG Protect combines face-to-face engagement with practical financial protection, helping you reach production, warehouse and shift-based teams and build workforce resilience.
The reality facing food manufacturers
Keeping production moving has never depended more on keeping people. Food production relies on experienced teams whose knowledge keeps lines running safely and efficiently. Rising employment costs, demanding output targets and workforce pressures are making it harder to retain those critical employees. At the same time, many frontline workers still don’t fully understand or use the support already available to them. When support doesn’t reach production lines, warehouses and shift teams, the impact can quickly be felt through absence, productivity, quality and operational consistency.
The pressures facing food manufacturing workforces
Retaining specialist skills
Experienced production employees hold knowledge that takes time and money to replace.
Managing absence
Illness and injury can quickly create staffing gaps and disruption across shift-based operations.
Reaching every shift
Benefits only have value when employees know what's available, understand it and can actually use it.
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Keeping food production teams engaged isn’t just about offering benefits. It’s about making sure employees understand, value and use the support available to them, wherever and whenever they work. PG Protect combines face-to-face engagement with practical financial protection. Our Engagement Executives visit workplaces and speak directly with employees, helping them understand the protection available and giving them the opportunity to ask questions face-to-face.
Helping you reach the people behind production
Face-to-face engagement
Our teams visit production sites and work around shift patterns, helping employees understand the support available to them in a practical, personal way.
Practical financial protection
Straightforward financial protection can provide additional support when illness, hospitalisation or recovery affects employees and their families.
Built around your workforce
Face-to-face engagement can be planned around your sites, shifts and working patterns, complementing your existing benefits approach.
Fast, simple claims
98% of claims are assessed within 48 hours, helping employees access financial support quickly when they need it most.
Supporting technology
PG Protect can work alongside your existing benefits platform, or with Hapi for a more connected employee experience.
Trusted and regulated
Backed by more than 40 years’ experience supporting UK employers, with regulated processes designed to ensure employees receive clear and consistent information.
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Proven across large frontline workforces
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of claims assessed within 48 hours
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In Practice: Natures Menu
Natures Menu brought its benefits and wellbeing support together in one accessible place, helping its 250+ employees make better use of what was available. Employee engagement reached around 60%, more than three times the industry average.
FAQs
Retaining experienced production employees means offering more than competitive pay. PG Protect helps employers improve workforce resilience by making sure frontline teams understand, value and use the support available to them through face-to-face engagement and practical financial protection.
Our Employee Engagement Executives visit production sites across every shift, providing face-to-face conversations that help employees understand their benefits and protection without disrupting operations.
Yes. PG Protect complements existing employee benefits and wellbeing programmes by improving awareness, participation and engagement, helping employers maximise the value of the support they already provide.
Absolutely. Our approach has been designed specifically for large, multi-site employers with shift-based workforces, ensuring every employee has access to consistent support regardless of location or working pattern.
Protect the people who keep your business working
Whether you're looking to retain specialist manufacturing teams, reduce absence or improve workforce resilience, PG Protect can help.
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