We're All in This Together:
Ensuring Health & Safety is Our Mission
“Certain critical infrastructure industries have a special responsibility in these times to continue normal operations.”
--Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce v3.0, DHS/CISA, 4/17/20
St. Petersburg, FL, USA. Updated as of: May 25, 2020.
As a health & safety company we take very seriously the well-being of workers and the integrity of workplace facilities. In this time of global pandemic and U.S. National Emergency, monitoring and adherence to guidelines, warnings, and mandates issued by official health authorities and Federal/State/Local government is paramount.
Our Operations Continue
The products in our industrial health & safety industry are not luxury items. They are instrumentation and technology needed to keep workers safe and workplaces secure, especially now.
On April 1, Florida's Governor issued an Executive Order 20-91 for a statewide Safer-at-Home directive. Exceptions include "Essential Services," of which we are considered.
A. For purposes of this Order and the conduct it limits, "essential services" means and encompasses the list detailed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in its Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce, v. 2 (March 28, 2020) (attached) and any subsequent lists published.
On April 17, an updated Version 3.0 of Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce: Ensuring Community and National Resilience in COVID-19 Response was issued by DHS’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), including these "essential services."
Sensidyne, LP qualifies as a Critical Infrastructure Supplier since we manufacture essential materials and products needed for the categories defined under Critical Manufacturing: medical supply chains (including ventilators), transportation, energy, communications, food and agriculture, chemical manufacturing, nuclear facilities, water and wastewater treatment, emergency services, and the defense industrial base. Accordingly, all employees at Sensidyne are considered to be part of the essential critical infrastructure workforce.
This means that Sensidyne has a special responsibility in these times to continue operations, even in the event of local, state or national quarantine. We are fully committed to doing our utmost to prevent any interruption in our ability to meet customers’ needs. We continue to work hard every day to manufacture and distribute our products through our distributor networks, manufacturers reps, and e-commerce, and we have adequate inventory in place to sustain for many months. We continue daily to monitor conditions in our factory and environments of our personnel in other parts of the country and around the world. We have instituted strict hygiene guidelines, as recommended by the CDC. In addition, we are very carefully reviewing all travel and face-to-face meetings and eliminating these activities unless they are essential or critical. We will keep these measures in place until official health organizations and governing bodies have announced it is safe to do otherwise.
Commerce Continues
Researching and purchasing products through phone calls, by email, or online is clearly still safe and secure. We will do everything within our power to continue to safely manufacture and deliver the products our customers need, remaining hopeful for prudent resolution and recovery from this crisis and a return to a "new normal" for business operations.
Let’s stay healthy & safe out there,
Howie, Glenn, and the entire Sensidyne Team
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IMPORTANT RESOURCES:
It is prudent to review often the websites and communications releases issued by the CDC, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the WHO, the Federal government, and especially your local & state governments regarding closures and restrictions.
State of Florida Governor's Executive Order Number 20-91, April 1, 2020
CISA Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce
Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Worldwide Tracker Map (updates many times per hour)
Johns Hopkins Medicine COVID-19 info page
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 page
The World Health Organization COVID-19 page
The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) Coronavirus Outbreak Resource Center
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About Sensidyne, LP
Since 1983, Sensidyne has designed and manufactured high-quality, precision industrial health & safety instrumentation that is instrumental in keeping workers safe and workplaces secure around the globe. Sensidyne manufactures and distributes a host of best-in-class equipment including the Gilian® line of air sampling pumps & calibrators; SensAlert®, SensAir® and SensAlarm® fixed point gas detection transmitters & systems; Sensidyne/Kitagawa colorimetric gas detection tubes and kits; Sensidyne OEM diaphragm Micro Air Pumps for vacuum and pressure applications; and Svantek’s sound & vibration measuring systems. In 2008, the SCHAUENBURG International Group made a strategic investment for international expansion by purchasing Sensidyne, LP.