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Pandemic worsens poor workplace health and safety

You Are Here:Home → 2021 → April → 30 → Pandemic worsens poor workplace health and safety Pandemic worsens poor workplace health and safety Workers amplify their demands in this time of pandemic. (Photo by Carlo Manalansan / Bulatlat)The pandemic only compounded the already dismal status of occupational health and safety in the country. Workers are either thrusted into work-from-home setups, forced to risk exposure to Covid-19 in their traditional workplaces, or retrenched altogether. By ARNETH ASIDDAO MANILA Even before the pandemic struck, workers had long been subjected to poor and unsafe working conditions. According to the International Labor Organization, there are more than 2.78 million work-related deaths and 374 million non-fatal injuries every year.

Group pays tribute to fallen health workers, frontliners

Health workers candle lighting (Photo from IOHSAD) On Wednesday night, April 28, Institute for Occupational Health and Safety Development (IOHSAD) marked International Workers’ Memorial Day through a candle-lighting activity in hospitals to pay tribute to those “who have laid their lives in the cause to improve and save workers’ lives.” “We remember all workers who have died saving the lives of, and providing essential services to, Filipinos. We condemn the government for failing to provide sufficient protection to our workers. At the same time, we raise alarm on the possibility of COVID-19 outbreaks in workplaces if the government refused to immediately act on workers’ health and safety demands,” Nadia De Leon, IOHSAD Executive Director, said in a statement.

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