Tag: employee safety

Ghost Kitchens Fire Up Safety Risks, Operational Challenges

A restaurant adapts to the Covid-19 pandemic and stay at home orders by pivoting to take out and delivery.

A fireball erupted from the propane burners a few seconds after a cook turned on a stove in a tiny mobile kitchen in a Houston parking lot in April, flaring out into the center of the trailer owned by Reef Global Inc. While the cook was unharmed (she happened to open a refrigerator at the… Continue reading Ghost Kitchens Fire Up Safety Risks, Operational Challenges

Employers Favoring Lower-Cost, Easier-to-Implement Interventions Over COVID-19 Testing

Measuring temperature with infrared thermometer of a young woman in face mask at a checkpoint during an epidemic outdoors. Concept of prevention the spread of the virus

From nursing homes in New York and a landfill in Utah to Disney World and the Las Vegas Strip, employers are wrestling with workplace safety in the age of Covid-19 and making fraught calculations about how to safeguard both their businesses and their employees. Mass testing, a critical tool to stem the virus’s spread, would… Continue reading Employers Favoring Lower-Cost, Easier-to-Implement Interventions Over COVID-19 Testing

More than Half of U.S. Employees Worry about Exposure to COVID-19 at their Workplace

Closeup on medical mask and hand disinfectant on the table in temporary home office during the coronavirus epidemic in the living room in sunny day.

Fifty-four percent of U.S. employees say they are worried about exposure to COVID-19 at their job, according to a new national poll by Eagle Hill Consulting. Workers indicate that several factors would make them feel safe going back to work – the availability of protective protections like masks, gloves and hand sanitizer (58 percent); mandating… Continue reading More than Half of U.S. Employees Worry about Exposure to COVID-19 at their Workplace