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HRE’s Number of the Day: Workplace Safety

Human Resource Executive

Between March and April, employers surveyed by law firm Blank Rome saw soaring increases in OSHA-related complaints—suggesting a troublesome trend for employers, especially as many gear up for bringing employees back to work in the coming weeks and months. The COVID-19 Employer Return-to-Work Survey included responses from more than 150 C-suite executives, HR leaders, in-house attorneys and more across a range of industries.

About 3% of respondents said their workplace had OSHA-related complaints filed against them in March, a figure that jumped to 12% when respondents were asked about April. “This indicates a potential trend whereby workers are flagging potentially unsafe working conditions related to business operations during the pandemic,” says Brooke Iley, co-chair of Blank Rome’s Labor & Employment practice group. With non-essential businesses shuttered during this time, Iley notes that many such complaints were made about manufacturing and productions operations that struggled to instate social-distancing guidelines.

To read the full Human Resource Executive article, which includes numerous insights from Brooke on the results of Blank Rome’s survey, please click here.

"HRE’s Number of the Day: Workplace Safety," by Jen Colletta was published in Human Resource Executive on May 8, 2020. 

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