Has the UK released any guidance on sharing PPE, my gut feeling would be to clean, leave for 24Hrs and reuse, or if the cleaning cannot be guaranteed to work, clean and then leave for 72Hrs prior to use. There must be a fair few industries out there that see PPE regularly shared (such as visitor PPE on construction sites) I may have missed the guidance on this.

Call me pedantic but the acronym is PPE not SPE.

I have worked at a company where visitor steel cap footwear was shared - we used a spray like the local ten-pin bowling alley between wearers - but these were short duration and infrequent use, not used in one shift by one employee and then by another employee on the next shift.

Even face visors have comfort bands which will be awkward to clean.

If there is a need for PPE then you must provide suitable PPE the regalations do not discuuss "shared" equipment which is likely why HM Gov is not issuing guidance.

JL, to answer the question, no. Guidance has not been released regards this, unless I have missed it.  

If PPE is shared there must be, irrespective of COVID19, a proper cleaning regime in place. However I think with the current situation greater consideration and emphasis should be placed on this, obviously depending on the type of PPE. e.g. if workers or vistors share items such as hi-vis vests, is there a cleaning programme for them, should you allow visitors at this time etc. If it is items such as air flow respirators, where you would have in place a cleaning regime, should their shared use be suspended, I would say so.

I was delivering meals whilst on thurlough for a local charity, i was issued with an apron that was bagged at the end of the session and then was laundered.  Thats about it, ideally no PPE should be shared, but as stated above, where it is, there needs to be a good cleaning regieme in place.