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03/16/21
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Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) - Today, six of every 10 workers trapped in a grain bin don t make it out alive. This is a frightening reality, but one that the nation s 8,378 off-farm grain storage facilities operators can change by following common sense approaches that truly may be the difference between life and death. Every year, hundreds of employees are injured or die from preventable hazards while working in grain storage and handling. Safety doesn t need to be big to be effective.
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How to make these changes will be the focus of the 5th annual Stand Up 4 Grain Safety Week, from March 29 through April 2, 2021. The event is a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Labor s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Grain Handling Safety Coalition, the Grain Elevator and Processing Society and the National Grain and Feed Association.
Representative image The program will aim to protect high-risk workers from coronavirus and focus on employers that retaliate against workers with safety concerns.
In response to President Biden s executive order on protecting worker health and safety, the U.S. Department of Labor s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has launched a national emphasis program focusing enforcement efforts on companies that put the largest number of workers at serious risk of contracting the coronavirus. The program also prioritizes employers that retaliate against workers for complaints about unsafe or unhealthy conditions, or for exercising other rights protected by federal law. This deadly pandemic has taken a staggering toll on U.S. workers and their families. We have a moral obligation to do what we can to protect workers, especially for the many who have no other protection, said Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Jim Frederick