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475Occupational
Health and Safety and COVID-19: Whose Rights Come First in a Pandemic?
Yet thousands of workers in transport,3 meat processing,4 and ware-
houses5 have fallen ill and hundreds have died from COVID-19 in
Canada and the U.S. The Collegium Ramazzini, an international body
of occupational physicians, published guidance materials that divide
the most vulnerable workers in the pandemic into three categories:
those at “very high risk,” a category that includes those working in
health care, transport, sales and cleaning; at “high risk,” including
those working in security, hotel and food services, and the cruise
industry; and, finally, those at “significantly increased risk,” including
workers in meat packing, manufacturing, construction, and mining.6
To examine the regulatory protections governing health and
safety, this chapter focuses on COVID-19 as an occupational health
and safety (OHS) hazard, looking specifically at the hazard repre-
sented by the illness itself. The mental health consequences of work-
ing in the pandemic are huge, but beyond the scope of this chapter,7
3. Barbara Neis, Kerri Neil & Katherine Lippel, “Mobility in a Pandemic: Covid-
19 and the Mobile Labour Force” (21 April 2020) On the Move Partnership
Working Paper at 37, online: On the Move <https://www.onthemovepartnership.
ca/>; Chris Fox, “Six Taxi and Limo Drivers Working Out of Toronto Pearson
Airport Have Died of Covid-19”, CTV News (6 May 2020 Chapter E-4020), online:
<https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/six-taxi-and-limo-drivers-working-out-of-toronto-
pearson-airport-have-died-of-covid-19-1.4927304>.
4. Joel Dryden & Sarah Rieger, “Inside the Slaughterhouse: North America’s Larg-
est Single Coronavirus Outbreak Started at this Alberta Meat-Packing Plant”,
CBC News (6 May 2020), online: <https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/
cargill-covid19-outbreak>; Daphné Cameron, “Les leçons de Yamachiche”, La
Presse (1 May 2020), online: <https://www.lapresse.ca/covid-19/202004/30/01-
5271642-les-lecons-de-yamachiche-.php>; Andrew Russell, “After Failing to
Publicly Reveal Covid-19 Outbreak Ontario Meat Plant Now Has 24 confirmed
Cases”, Global News (6 May 2020), online: <https://globalnews.ca/news/6913049/
coronavirus-ontario-meat-packing-plant/l>; Collin Harris, “Cargill Meat-Pro-
cessing Plant South of Montreal Says 64 Workers Infected with COVID-19”,
CBC News (20 May 2020), online: <https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/
cargill-chambly-covid-19-shut-down-1.5563539>; Sarah Berger Richardson, this
volume, Chapter E-5.
5. Sara Mojtehedzadeh, “Amazon Worker at GTA Warehouse Tests Positive for
COVID-19”, The Star (23 April 2020), online: <https://www.thestar.com/busi-
ness/2020/04/23/amazon-worker-at-gta-warehouse-tests-positive-for-covid-19.
html>; Joel Dryden, “Alberta Declares COVID-19 Outbreak at Amazon Warehouse
Near Calgary”, CBC News (1 May 2020), online: <https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
calgary/calgary-amazon-covid-warehouse-outbreak-1.5553126>.
6. “Prevention of Work-Related Infection in the Covid-19 Pandemic” (5 May 2020),
online: The Collegium Ramazzini,Â
<http://www.collegiumramazzini.org/>.
7. Ali Watkins et al, “Top E.R. Doctor Who Treated Virus Patients Dies by Suicide”,
New York Times (27 April 2020), online: <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/
nyregion/new-york-city-doctor-suicide-coronavirus.html>.
VULNERABLE
The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Titel
- VULNERABLE
- Untertitel
- The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Autoren
- Vanessa MacDonnell
- Jane Philpott
- Sophie Thériault
- Sridhar Venkatapuram
- Verlag
- Ottawa Press
- Datum
- 2020
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 9780776636429
- Abmessungen
- 15.2 x 22.8 cm
- Seiten
- 648
- Kategorien
- Coronavirus
- International