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Women make up only about 5% of the welding workforce, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number is growing, though, as is the number of companies and businesses catering to these skilled professionals. While improvements have been made to make women welders safe on the job, PPE manufacturers, distributors, and employers have a long way to go to eliminate one of the largest barriers for women welders: properly fitting PPE.

https://www.thefabricator.com/thewelder/article/safety/narrowing-the-welding-ppe-gap-for-women-in-fabrication

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Narrowing the welding PPE gap for women in fabrication Three PPE experts discuss the lack of well-fitting protective clothing for women welders and other skilled professionals and the developments being made to narrow this gap.

HV.1 is a subvariant of Omicron, and it's rapidly becoming the most prevalent variant in the country, according to data from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) that was updated on Nov. 14. At the start of September, HV. 1 made up 4.4 per cent of reported cases, until it ballooned to 34.2 per cent in early November.

"This is kind of what we should maybe expect to be our new normal for cold and flu season going forward."

While both experts agree HV.1 shouldn't create concerns about causing more severe disease, they also say it's important to avoid COVID-19 entirely.

People who are at risk of bad COVID-19 outcomes should be the most vigilant about staying healthy. That includes people who are older, pregnant people, anyone living with a chronic medical condition or those who are immunocompromised.

https://ca.style.yahoo.com/covid-subvariant-hv1-canada-experts-103036041.html?guccounter=1

Covid is going to be like influenza and it looks to be around continually but we are (hopefully) beyond the lock-downs and quarantines of the past. Just stay vigilant and if you are in the category of high risk for more severe outcomes, then just be more careful and safe when going out.


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A string of posts on social media have claimed that Rishi Sunak wrote off £14.9 billion lost to personal protective equipment (PPE) fraud.

One user on X (formerly Twitter) posted on 11 September: “Rishi Sunak has decided that the £14.9bn of PPE fraud cannot be investigated and has written it all off.”

This post has been shared thousands of times, while similar claims have also been posted by other X users and on Facebook.

We have found no evidence that £14.9 billion has been lost or written off in PPE fraud.

The DHSC’s annual accounts for 2021/22 say that an assessment of “high-risk” PPE contracts was carried out, covering 28% of the total PPE contracts awarded. This assessment identified a 1.7% “risk of loss” from fraud and error, with a value of around £38.4 million in those contracts.

https://fullfact.org/health/covid-ppe-fraud-rishi-sunak/

It's crazy enough that governments had issues with fraudulent procurement of PPE, poor quality of the goods and price gouging, but now they are actually arguing about the extent of the problem after the fact. All this points to the ineptitude of the politicians, the civil servants who were tasked with this and the process overall. Or perhaps there is now a cover-up to protect those people who perpetrated this criminal activity on the tax payers.

in my opinion, much of this could have been avoided if govts made an effort to grow domestic manufacturing in strategic industries such as PPE and medical equipment, like they are now trying to do with semiconductors, rechargeable battery technologies and other Hi Tech products. I would say the old adage of "Live and Learn" would be appropriate, except now that the pandemic has eased and things return to relative normalcy, our politicians and other govt officials are abandoning their rhetoric of building a thriving domestic PPE manufacturing base and going back to the old ways. It's crazy that they openly encouraged entrepreneurs to dive in and build state of the art domestic PPE factories and are now abandoning them and going back to offshore manufacturers and suppliers. To be clear; there are international suppliers who are qualified and capable of supplying high quality and cost effective products and they are more than able to produce On Time, On Spec and On Budget. But the problem is when (and there will be more moments of severe need for PPE supplies) we face another pandemic that procuring the PPE from offshore suppliers will again prove to be a daunting issue. Knowing this, countries need to prepare and build domestic manufacturing and support these companies both now and into the future; or we will not have learned from our past mistakes. Let's be strategic about this going forward and not set us up for another failure and more waste of tax payer monies.


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Rishi Sunak has not written off £14.9 billion in PPE fraud - Full Fact Claims that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wrote off £14.9 billion in PPE fraud are not correct. The figure may relate to stock impairments at the DHSC. The level of PPE fraud seems much lower.