In a note released this Monday, the employers, the executive recommends that companies provide ten weeks of stocks of masks to “be able to cope with a potential re-emergence of the epidemic”.
The government recommends that companies “build a stock preventive, protective masks 10 weeks to be able to cope with a potential re-emergence of the epidemic,” according to a note released this Monday.
The situation with procurement has improved, “you must, therefore, collectively have, in the long term, the equipment necessary for the protection of employees, to ensure the continuity of your business,” according to the note sent to employers that the AFP was able to consult.
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The recommendation of ten weeks the stock had already been made at the beginning of July prior to the lifting of the state of health emergency, but it is repeated in a context of a rebound in the number of new infection by the coronavirus in France and while the wearing of masks was made mandatory in enclosed public places.
Decentralize inventory
“In case of resumption of the epidemic, the needs could be strengthened and reach hundreds of millions of masks per week”, recalls the note, signed by the ministers of Health Olivier Véran and the Work Elizabeth Terminal, as well as by the delegate minister for Industry Agnès Pannier-Runacher.
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More precisely, “the government recommends that you assess the stock, taking into account the situations in which compliance with the distance physics of one meter between two people cannot be guaranteed,” according to the text it adds that “the employer may also decide to extend the port class of the mask within the company”. In early July, the minister of Health Olivier Veran had stressed the need to decentralize the stocks of masks in France.
