SMACNA Contractors come up with innovative solutions for worker safety during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
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From the Desk of Julie Muller, Executive Vice President of SMACNA-WW
SMACNA Contractors Come up with Innovative Solutions
for worker safety during the Covid-19 Pandemic. SMACNA-WW features hand washing stations from MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions and Hermanson Company. Keep calm, and wash your hands!
MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions - Portable Hand Washing Stations
MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions is fabricating, delivering, and installing portable hand washing stations. Designed to protect people, this hand washing station also includes a sheet metal divider as a sneeze guard between the two sinks.
Hermanson Company - Hand Washing Mobile Sink Stations
Hermanson Company can fabricate customized mobile sink stationsthat are light weight and provide cold or hot/cold water from onsite or tank water supply and on-site or waste storage tank drainage.
For more information, pricing and ordering contact: Ryan Leonhardt | 206-571-7430 | rleonhardt@hermanson.com
SMACNA WW Members: if anyone has come up with a industry solution to the COVID Crisis that they would like us to share (i.e. Portable hand washing stations), please let us know! SMACNA-WW would like to feature these innovations in our member email updates.
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