H-E-B begins providing employees gloves, masks

H-E-B began providing masks and gloves for its employees for use during work.

H-E-B’s employees who work in its stores, warehouses, manufacturing and transportation facilities have been strongly encouraged to wear masks, which the company began providing on Saturday. Gloves are also available for its employees. This applies to all H-E-B, Central Market, Joe V’s Smart Shop and Mi Tienda location.

“As an essential service provider at this time, masks and gloves are just another safeguard we’ve implemented across our company to protect the health and safety of our Partners, customers and communities,” H-E-B Chief Operating Officer Martin Otto said in a statement. “We are here for all Texans and we take our role to protect public safety seriously.”

All employees who choose these options will have to follow H-E-B’s strict hygiene and sanitation measures as well as proper social distancing protocol. H-E-B stated that employees who wear masks must keep them clean and maintain high standards for hygiene and sanitation while at work. Employees who wear gloves must continue to frequently wash their hands and apply hand sanitizer. Gloves must also be regularly changed and properly discarded after use.

Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, H-E-B has implemented a number of significant measures and has worked hard to educate its employees and customers about the disease. H-E-B has created a dedicated leader in every store, the COVID Action Manager, who is trained to ensure sanitation and social distancing procedures are properly followed. H-E-B also installed plexiglass partitions at all checkstands, metered entry into stores, adopted crowd control guidelines to manage customer traffic, and placed floor decals to help identify proper social distance. Additionally, H-E-B conducts deep cleaning and sanitizing of stores and hard surfaces as well as fuel stations throughout the day, and utilizes contactless home delivery to limit direct interaction. The Texas grocer requires all its employees to stay home if they feel ill.