Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) Unit

About the Program

Category: Risk and Emergency Management (Best in Category)

Year: 2021

The PPE Unite program launched in October 2020 to distribute free PPE to small businesses, non-profits, and social enterprises in order to keep employees and customers safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. A major distribution effort, the?Los Angeles?County Department of Workforce Development, Aging and Community Services funded the distribution and partial procurement of 15.8 million units of critical PPE supplies for businesses with 100 employees or fewer. Through its public-private partnership, the PPE Unite program streamlined an innovative distribution system to make masks, face shields, and hand sanitizer available to 23,399 eligible businesses – one of the largest such efforts in the county. PPE Unite has protected 321,033 employees with free 30-day supplies of PPE. Saving the average PPE Unite business recipient an average of at least $182 in costs, this program has made a difference for businesses on the margins struggling to find reliable PPE survive and has help mitigate the economic fallout from the COVID-19 public health emergency.