Coalition of advocacy groups issues an 8-point worker-safety agenda

Calling OSHA a “catastrophic failure” during the pandemic, the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health has teamed up with more than 100 labor and community-based organizations on an eight-point agenda for worker safety and health.

COSH called its national agenda, released last week, a transformational vision for the future of worker health and safety in the U.S. It pulls together ideas based on actual workplace experiences to confront COVID-19 and other longstanding workplace hazards.

“Workers are sick, broke and dying because so far during this pandemic, employers, OSHA and our federal government have failed to protect them from the risk of infectious disease,” Jessica Martinez, National COSH’s co-executive director, said in a press release. “We know workplace exposures play a major role in the virus transmission.”