Building solutions business Tarmac has started an employee-led campaign to donate personal protective equipment (PPE) to hospitals and NHS and social care workers across the UK.
Equipment including protective face masks, gloves and goggles are among the supplies being shared by local teams based at Tarmac’s sites across the UK from where the company manufactures materials for use in infrastructure delivery and maintenance for a wide range of projects.
Josh Bennett, a readymix technical manager in London, was one of those offering help and support to healthcare providers after speaking to a friend working as an NHS doctor in an A&E department in Surrey.
He said: “When I found out that there was a shortage of PPE and particularly FFP3 masks in my friend’s hospital I knew that Tarmac would be able to help as we use them in quite a lot of our operations – the support from the local teams in collecting not just spare masks but safety glasses, gloves and overalls was fantastic and I was able to give my friend a bit of good news about the donation.”
Tarmac employees taking part in the campaign have already supplied PPE to hospitals, GP surgeries and care homes in counties including South Lanarkshire, Northumberland, Yorkshire, Worcestershire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire and Surrey.
Martin Riley, senior VP, Tarmac, said: “We’re immensely proud of the work our teams up and down the country are doing to maintain critical national transport infrastructure.
“Their efforts are helping to keep the roads, highways and railways open so health and social care staff can get to work, emergency services can operate safely and key resources such as food and fuel can move around the country.”
