While laundry safety leaders generally agree that the COVID-19 pandemic enhanced both employee awareness of safety issues and focused attention on the need to prevent the spread of the virus, they’ll welcome the chance to get back to the routine business of incident prevention, without undue worry about the virus. That was the rough consensus that Textile Services obtained through recent interviews with safety officials from five companies.

GAUGING THE IMPACT

“We are settling back into our normal safety routines that we had in place before the pandemic, with some COVID-19 related additions,” says Russell Holt, chief compliance officer ...