Health Care & Safety

In this webinar, you’ll learn about the ways you can provide safety with tech items.

With coronavirus infection surging in Florida, Palm Beach County, the state's third most-populous county, enacted a mandatory mask order in June. To reinforce the message with residents, the county has undertaken an ambitious program to send four branded masks to each of its nearly 659,000 residential addresses...

Hanesbrands Inc., Winston-Salem, N.C., launched its #MaskAround campaign to stress the importance of wearing a face mask in public. The company is also donating 1 million masks to homeless people nationwide. The #MaskAround campaign is aimed at Instagram and TikTok users, hoping to educate them on the importance of face coverings and inspiring more widespread usage...

After authorities ordered the facility shut down due to more than 300 positive COVID-19 cases and four employee deaths, Los Angeles Apparel founder Dov Charney said the company was in the right to continue operating. His reasoning? The numbers found in his company are “commensurate” with the COVID-19 rate in South Los Angeles overall, and therefore not indicative of an outbreak...

Sourcing PPE, while lucrative for promo businesses, has also been challenging. Things could get a bit tougher now, as flooding has impacted major production hubs in China, including those manufacturing PPE for shipment to the U.S. The city of Wuhan, along with the provinces of Anhui, Jiangxi and Zhejiang, declared red alerts...

The FDA has added to its list of potentially harmful hand sanitizer products, bringing the list to a new total of 75 products potentially containing methanol. The list still only includes products manufactured in Mexico, and the FDA has implemented an import alert on Friday for some products, in addition to the recalls and recommended recalls...

To try to create across-the-board regulation in stores, the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) sent a letter to President Trump asking for national face mask usage standards to protect retail workers and customers. If such standards were put in place, it could have benefits for promotional products companies...

With COVID-19 cases spiking in several parts of the U.S., health officials as well as government authorities have continued to stress the importance of face coverings when it comes to stopping and slowing the spread of the virus. Face shields are one option, with growing potential for a variety of applications...

Are we in the “dog days of summer” yet? The temps are above 90, and everyone seems to have gotten a puppy during the first month or so of quarantine. By that logic, I guess we are! While we count our blessings for central air at this time, we’re also counting down some of our favorite promotional products we’ve seen around the internet over the past week...

BibBoards, maker of the patented PPE innovation bbSNAPS, announced its exclusive partnership with iClick. bbSNAPS transforms the protective mask wearing experience. Users simply affix the bbSNAPS onto a hat or headband and loop the mask straps around the product, keeping the straps off their ears, greatly increasing comfort...