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OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH

Social distancing, facemasks, hand-sanitizers, safety glass, teleworking
arrangements, COVID-19 has placed health and safety measures at the forefront

of everyone’s mind, also in the workplace.

PREVENTION DURING

COVID-19

With the coronavirus spreading rapidly across The World Congress Digital
the world, authorities and workplaces were Meeting in October 2020 WORKPLACE MEASURES
struggling to keep pace, widespread highlighted how the
prevention measures were implemented COVID-19 pandemic placed The ISSA’s Special Commission
more quickly than ever before. Social occupational safety and on Prevention has published a
distancing became the new buzzword, and health (OSH) centre stage list of measures that can be
overnight hand-sanitizers and facemasks and pushed forward shared by occupational accident
were everywhere. Teleworking arrangements innovation in this area. As insurances to ensure that the
became widespread, while safety glass part of the digital meeting, COVID-19 will not spread at
became common in places where in-person the ISSA organized the the workplace.
interactions were still necessary, such as Global Forum for Work Injury
for shopping and various services. Insurance. Stefan Hussy, from the German
Social Accident Insurance and Chair of the ISSA
Technical Commission on Insurance against
CORONA PREVENTION MONITOR Employment Accidents and Occupational
Diseases, stressed the necessity to build on
The ISSA Corona Prevention Monitor this momentum and develop an ecosystem of
offers a selection of news and analysis safe and healthy workplaces. The Forum was
from media and other sources around hosted by the Social Insurance Fund of the
the world on prevention during Russian Federation.
COVID-19. This was an initiative by the
Austrian Workers’ Compensation Board
(Allgemeine Unfallversicherungsanstalt – “COVID-19 has pushed society into
AUVA) together with the ISSA’s Special new work patterns, such as teleworking, into
Commission on Prevention and its new lifestyles and into social distancing.”
14 international prevention sections.
Marcelo Abi-Ramia Caetano, ISSA Secretary General

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