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PPE
PPE in the COVID-19 era
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Leading PPE suppliers share their thoughts on the PPE market and offer advice on the selection of the correct product.
“The awareness of PPE protection overall has increased in both industrial and commercial markets.”
PPE manufacturers are seeing a major increase in demand for COVID-19-related products.
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Daryl Johnson, regional sales manager Gulf region, JSP Safety JSP Safety globally have unsurprisingly seen a major increase in demand for all of our COVID-19-related protective products. Much of this demand is seen in our disposable masks range, and also in our semi disposables, as well as in a surge in the use of PAPR (Powered Air Purifying Respiratory systems). Eye and face protection, and socially distancing products such as cones and barriers have also seen an increase. With ‘PPE’ being front page
news, the awareness of PPE protection overall has increased in both industrial and commercial markets, and PPE manufacturing worldwide has become incredibly important to meet the current demands to combat the virus. The importance of increasing our manufacturing capabilities globally and local stocking of PPE products has become apparent during this crisis. This, in turn, has highlighted the importance of using correct and appropriate PPE, not only in the workplace, but in our everyday lives, and this looks set to continue for some
time to come. We have introduced some new innovative products into our range to help combat the spread of the virus when in close proximity to others, and then taking this further by creating educational content on our website (www.jspsafety.com), using a specific COVID-19 support section, highlighting all the recommended NHS products. These products can also integrate with all our other PPE products. The difficulties we have been facing are the longer lead times and in some cases very high raw material prices, due to extremely
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