'Owing to a recent Goverment change on the technical requirements for PPE provision we are limited to supplying the general public at present, due to needing appropriate certification (CE Markings.) This will cost us in the region of £3000 - £5000 per maker (a total of £15000 - £25000), which we are unable to afford!
We are working with trading standards, The Health and Safety Executive, and the Office for Product Safety and Standards to remedy this, and to be able to continue helping hospitals, care home, schools and businesses within the next few days.
This means we can not supply an employer but can supply individual or groups of people items to take into work. Our items are no longer classed as PPE and can not protect against COVID-19, but may help to reduce the risks of working in close proximity to others.'
East Suffolk PPE are responding to the growing need for personal protection equipment (PPE) during the coronavirus pandemic by helping to produce and donate a small range of PPE to Emergency,Healthcare workers and Key workers across East Anglia. We are ensuring help gets to those places that are finding it difficult to get supplies such as Care Homes, individual Care workers and charities.
While they're treating patients and keeping wider society safe, our frontline healthcare staff are exposed to high viral loads of the COVID-19 infection, and have a higher chance of contracting a serious illness related to the virus.
To combat that risk, they're using personal protection equipment (PPE), but it’s widely reported that there aren’t enough stocks of PPE to meet demand. To help meet that demand, we can help by offering:
We require anybody who has some spare time on their hands to get in touch as every hand will make the jobs of getting this vital equipment out to the people on the front line of Covid19.
