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"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."

"This article presents a UK supermarket worker's experiences of work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Writing during a period of uncertainty, Jay's narrative reveals how the sudden and constant transitions between mundanity and extremity on the shop floor evoke conflicting emotions and work intensification that disrupt and reconstruct normality. His accounts describe violent customer behaviours, absent management, a lack of clear organisational policies, and the different views of appropriate health and safety measures among colleagues. It illustrates how liminality in the workplace at a time of crisis can endanger employees whose seemingly mundane jobs become extreme."

"Cet article présente l'expérience de travail d'un employé de supermarché britannique pendant la pandémie de COVID-19. Écrit pendant une période d'incertitude, le récit de Jay révèle comment les transitions soudaines et constantes entre le banal et l'extrême dans l'atelier évoquent des émotions conflictuelles et une intensification du travail qui perturbent et reconstruisent la normalité. Ses récits décrivent des comportements violents de la part des clients, une direction absente, un manque de politiques organisationnelles claires et des points de vue différents sur les mesures de santé et de sécurité appropriées parmi les collègues. Il illustre comment la liminalité sur le lieu de travail en période de crise peut mettre en danger les employés dont les tâches apparemment banales deviennent extrêmes. Mots cléfs : travail extrême, services de première ligne, travailleurs clés, liminalité, emplois de supermarché "