Employers urged to embrace workplace safety and health culture 25 Jul 2021 / 09:30 H. Pix for representational purpose only.
PETALING JAYA: Employers have been encouraged to embrace workplace safety and health culture as the way forward for doing business in the ‘new normal’ environment.
MEF President Datuk Dr Syed Hussain Syed Husman said both the employers and employees have the collective duty to ensure that the workplace is free from hazards and diseases that must include preventive measures against the spread of Covid-19 infections.
“The need to adopt workplace safety and health as a culture in the organisation has become more important with the pandemic situation that is still upon us,” he said in a statement yesterday.
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WASHINGTON Democratic President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), California OSHA Director Doug Parker, spent his Senate confirmation hearing fending off Republican demands that Biden deep-six a union-pushed Emergency Temporary Standard to comba.
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WASHINGTON Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell’s ban on lawsuits through 2024 against firms that don’t protect workers and consumers from the coronavirus is even worse than advertised, the National Council on Occupational Safety and Health reports, and an inspection of the measure’s underlying text confirms.
The GOP Majority Leader’s bill is actually S4317, introduced July 27 by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. McConnell is the top co-sponsor. It bans not just lawsuits involving company exposure of workers and customers to the virus, but coronavirus-related suits under most labor laws, too. The exceptions: Workers comp laws and the original National Labor Relations Act.