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"Ils s'appelaient Michel, Harouna, Franck, Romain, Hugo, Christiane, Yucel ou encore Teddy. Ils étaient ouvriers, travailleurs indépendants, apprentis, parfois même stagiaires. Tous ont en commun d'avoir perdu la vie dans l'exercice ou l'apprentissage de leur métier.

Matthieu Lépine dénombre les accidents du travail mortels depuis plus de quatre ans. Son ouvrage dévoile le bilan terrifiant de ce recensement inédit. Chiffres, témoignages, analyses, L'Hécatombe invisible lève un tabou sur une réalité ignorée : la mort au travail est un fait social majeur en augmentation qui concerne des travailleurs souvent jeunes et au statut précaire.

Non-respect des obligations de sécurité, négligence de la formation, recours massif à une main-d'œuvre intérimaire ou employée en sous-traitance, déresponsabilisation des entreprises, la dégradation généralisée des conditions de travail est au cœur des enjeux sur la question des accidents professionnels. Un document édifiant."

"... Indeed, the contribution of precarious work and the informal sector to exacerbating the pandemic and rendering societies more vulnerable has largely escaped detailed scrutiny or policy debate globally. COVID-19 has highlighted a number of structural problems as well as the need to learn from the past. It affords an opportunity for an evidence-driven policy re-set with regard to the primacy of health infrastructure/goals, reintegrating work and public health, and policies to reshape work arrangements. The pandemic is also a warning signal as it is unlikely to be the last major global disaster/catastrophe experienced in coming decades. Climate change, environmental degradation, and habitat loss interacting with rising economic inequality and ongoing structural racism will see to that."

"Dispatched to the “front line” in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic without personal protective equipment, Romanian healthcare professionals have paid dearly for such inadequacy: Romania has one of the highest rates of infection among medical staff across Europe. The state and hospitals alike had an obligation to provide staff with the means to protect themselves. But although many of Romania's doctors and nurses are outraged at having been so fundamentally exposed, few of them dare to lodge a complaint."

"The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced a number of added obstacles to safe employment for already-challenged essential workers. Essential workers not employed in the health sector generally include racially diverse, low-wage workers whose jobs require close interaction with the public and/or close proximity to their coworkers, placing them at increased risk of infection. A narrative review facilitated the analyses of health outcome data in these workers and contributing factors to illness related to limited workplace protections and a lack of organizational support. Findings suggest that this already marginalized population may also be at increased risk of “moral injury” due to specific work-related factors, such as limited personal protective equipment (PPE) and the failure of the employer, as the safety and health “duty holder,” to protect workers. Evidence suggests that ethical and, in some cases, legally required safety protections benefit not only the individual worker, but an employer's enterprise and the larger community which can retain access to resilient, essential services."

"This report responds to the TUC's calls for a strengthened health and safety agenda, improved safety guidance and tougher regulatory activity in the light of Covid-19. Until now little was known about the form workplace risk assessment has taken during Covid-19, its impact on prevention and work. This report identifies the role that Health and Safety (H&S) representatives have played during Covid-19, lessons learned and best practice for continuing and future waves. There is a particular focus on food manufacturing, distribution and food retail (referred to throughout the report as the food sector). The report examines organisational and sectoral mechanisms and processes for worker representation and for effective social dialogue and joint regulation on health and safety. It identifies the role of H&S representatives in risk assessment and the provision of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), but also in the (re)organisation of work and workplace ergonomics. The report also explores the role of unions in the protection of mental health, in ensuring that health and safety measures cover all groups of workers, and in maintaining the confidence of workers in their organisation's capacity to keep them safe. It recognises the specific issues for the protection of key workers, the disproportionate outcomes for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) workers, but also for those on contractual arrangements with no direct relationship with employers."

"In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed recommendations for individual COVID-19 prevention behaviors, as well as guidance for the safe reopening of businesses. Drawing from previous research on occupational safety, business ethics, and economic stressors, we tested the hypothesis that more positive perceptions of the workplace COVID-19 safety climate would be associated with lower employee COVID-19 related moral disengagement. In turn, we predicted that higher COVID-19 moral disengagement would be associated with lower enactment of preventive behaviors both at work and in nonwork settings (i.e., a spillover effect). Further, we investigated whether employee job insecurity would impact organizational socialization processes, such that the relationship between the perceived COVID-19 safety climate and moral disengagement would be weaker at higher levels of job insecurity. By analyzing a three-wave lagged dataset of U.S. employees working on-site during the pandemic using a Bayesian multilevel framework, we found empirical support for the hypothesized moderated mediation model. We discuss the relevance of these findings (i.e., the spillover effect and the role of job insecurity) in light of the extant safety climate literature and outline how our findings have several implications for the scope and conceptualization of safety climate in light of the surge of new working arrangements, infectious diseases, and continuing employment instability."