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Tomorrow is a Worker's Day of Action for Worker Safety. During the COVID-19 pandemic, OSHA and our federal government have failed to reduce risk, failed to protect workers, and failed to stop the spread of a deadly disease.
#Agenda4Workers
#Agenda4Workers
After nearly a year of COVID, workers are sick, dying, and broke. Together, we can turn this around: save lives, get healthy, and get back to work in an environment with greater safety precautions and lower risk.
In the U.S., more than 400,000 people are now dead from COVID-19. We don’t even know how many are frontline workers who were exposed on the job.
We do know that even before COVID-19, more than 5,000 workers die each year from workplace trauma and some 95,000 from long-term exposure to toxic chemicals and other hazards.
We want stronger safety laws and tougher enforcement; protection against illegal employer retaliation, and a real plan to beat this deadly virus.
We must confront the legacy of systemic racism that puts immigrants & workers of color at greater risk of illness, injury, and death. Discriminatory practices have been used by those with power and privilege to divide us and prevent all workers from the fair treatment we deserve.
So far, OSHA has failed miserably during COVID, the most severe workplace health crisis in our lifetimes. Together, we can change that -- and make sure workers win the protections they deserve.
Every employer needs a plan, developed with workers, to stop the spread of COVID and other infectious diseases.
We say, “Fix the work, not the worker,” using a hierarchy of controls to improve the workplace environment and protect everyone within it.
We say, “Fix the work, not the worker,” using a hierarchy of controls to improve the workplace environment and protect everyone within it.
It’s great that we now have a vaccine -- but a global pandemic like COVID can’t be stopped right away. In the coming months, we still need aggressive public health protections -- especially in our workplaces -- to reduce risk and keep us safe.
Change can and must come from this administration, and the COSH Movement will make sure it does. COVID won't stop in our communities if we don’t stop it in our workplaces.
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