Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Flight Engineer; Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 60; Flight Crew Total 18000; Flight Crew Type 1300
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Other / Unknown
General None Reported / Taken
Company Policy; Environment - Non Weather Related
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?
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.