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>>It costs money to have storage space for them. $40 per employee. My five-man IT company have enough PPE to keep going for 120 days. It cost us $200 a year t
by benjohnson 7y ago
>>It costs money to have storage space for them.
$40 per employee.
My five-man IT company have enough PPE to keep going for 120 days. It cost us $200 a year to maintain it - or $40 per employee.
We have N95, face-shields, and Tyvek bunny suits. We even have N100 half-face respirators for a really serious pathogen.
EDIT: It does cost for storage. At $25 per sq-ft for real estate, it add $50 to the cost. So a total of $50 per employee.
(We have prudently given a lot to the local hospital as we've been working primarily from home. We've also been 3D printing face-shields.)
- greedo 7y agoNot judging, but why does a five-man IT company require PPE? I've been involved with DR/BCP for 20 years and this has never come across my radar.
- dylz 7y agoCalifornia OSHA has made it a legal requirement for companies to have N95 masks for employees in the past.
- greedo 7y agoThanks! I haven't worked in CA for over 2 decades, and in the Midwest this requirement would be viewed with a jaundiced eye.
- dylz 7y agoA lot of people were asking WTF about Facebook, Apple, etc having tons of masks - CA pretty much had temporary mandatory "you must have enough for all of your workers" declarations during wildfires.
- benjohnson 7y agoGreat question! Day to day it's quite useful - I don't want to send my guys into a sketchy attic that may have glass fibers, rat turds, black mold, and asbestos to check on a network cable and I don't want them to lose and eyeball when using a power drill. We also spend a fair amount of money on ladder safety - looking at the OSHA data, that a great way to maim yourself.
- greedo 7y agoLadders are bad; climbing on roofs is bad. I'm sure that when I depart this mortal coil, it'll be because I was on my roof, supported by a crappy ladder.