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A PARTNERSHIP between Uber and consumer product company Reckitt Benckiser hopes to clean up the slump in ride-share use caused by COVID-19 fears and enforced distancing rules.

A thriving ride-share industry is important for dealers as it generates increased service and parts sales.

Reckitt Benckiser (RB), makers of Dettol products, are now providing Uber Australia drivers with free hygiene kits made from Dettol’s range to help stop the spread of germs.

It is an additional investment from Uber to help ensure that drivers who use the Uber app can equip their vehicles with hand sanitisers and disinfectants at no cost.

These free kits make up part of Uber’s $50 million global commitment to help provide equipment for clean and hygienic rides.

This makes Uber the only rideshare platform in Australia to help make disinfectants and sanitisers available for every trip. The offer of the kits of Dettol hand sanitiser and disinfectant wipes extends to delivery partners who use the Uber Eats app.

Uber Australia general manager Dom Taylor said his company wanted to “help people move with confidence”.

“We’re thrilled to work with RB to ensure our partners have access to the sanitising products they need, at no cost to them,” he said.

“Our focus is helping make driver partners feel supported and that riders can have confidence that steps have been taken to help make their trip hygienically clean. This initiative comes at no extra cost for riders or driver partners.”

Henry Turgoose, Marketing Director, RB Health Australia marketing director Henry Turgoose said Australians were mindful of hygiene practices while on the move.

“The Uber app plays an important role in helping get many of us from A to B, and we’re thrilled to help provide germ protection to both driver partners and riders who use the Uber app both now and beyond the restrictions,” he said.

Driver and delivery partners who use the Uber app have been provided with recommended practices based on the advice from global health authorities on ways to disinfect their vehicles and delivery bags, including the various touch points throughout a ride-share or delivery vehicle.

Recently, Uber also introduced a new safety checklist for driver partners before they go online, which also adopts hygiene practices that will help drivers, delivery partners and consumers.

By Neil Dowling

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