Air carrier first officer reported that the flight attendant safety briefing did not include procedu...

Narrative:

After boarding was completed; I had the opportunity to listen to our flight attendant's safety briefing through my headset by selecting the 'cabin attendant' button on my audio management panel (amp). Our flight attendant's are competent; safety oriented professionals and my hat is off to them in terms of all that they put up with from the traveling public and an airline that is sometimes tone deaf to their needs. In listening the flight attendant safety briefing; I realized that our passengers are not being given any procedural guidance to remove their masks / face shields / ppe in the event of a rapid decompression - the portion of the briefing dealing with the use of oxygen masks in the event of a loss of cabin pressure remains unchanged. This is particularly troubling given that our airline and most other us airlines have adopted a 'zero tolerance' policy regarding the use of facial masks during the pandemic. Not only has our airline adopted this zero tolerance policy; it is even 'banning' customers from our airline for failure to comply. So in this draconian world of absolute zero tolerance for failure to wear a mask; where exactly is the procedural guidance in what to do with that snot and drool infested petri dish of nastiness once the oxygen masks drop during a real emergency?

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier First Officer reported that the Flight Attendant safety briefing did not include procedural guidance on how passengers should remove face masks and don oxygen masks in the event of an emergency.

Narrative: After boarding was completed; I had the opportunity to listen to our Flight Attendant's safety briefing through my headset by selecting the 'CAB' button on my Audio Management Panel (AMP). Our FA's are competent; safety oriented professionals and my hat is off to them in terms of all that they put up with from the traveling public and an airline that is sometimes tone deaf to their needs. In listening the FA safety briefing; I realized that our passengers are NOT being given any procedural guidance to remove their masks / face shields / PPE in the event of a rapid decompression - the portion of the briefing dealing with the use of oxygen masks in the event of a loss of cabin pressure remains unchanged. This is particularly troubling given that our airline and most other US airlines have adopted a 'zero tolerance' policy regarding the use of facial masks during the pandemic. Not only has our airline adopted this zero tolerance policy; it is even 'banning' customers from our airline for failure to comply. So in this draconian world of absolute zero tolerance for failure to wear a mask; where exactly is the procedural guidance in what to do with that snot and drool infested petri dish of nastiness once the oxygen masks drop during a real emergency?

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1761560
Time
Date	202009
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Flight Engineer Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 60 Flight Crew Total 18000 Flight Crew Type 1300
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Other / Unknown

Air carrier first officer reported that the flight attendant safety briefing did not include procedural guidance on how passengers should remove face masks and don oxygen masks in the event of an emergency.