Handling emergency situations has become more critical, because today we have an additional threat of Corona Virus

We spoke to Lawrence Adoni, Director, NIST Institute to understand the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Safety and health of employees, how COVID-19 has affected the preparedness of safety officers, new safety trainings they need to imbibe how they would you rate Indian OSH preparedness at workplaces in response to the pandemic and new courses they have introduced to help safety and health officers.

Interviewed by Adeesh Sharma

What has been the impact of COVID-19 on Safety and health of employees?

There has been a devastating effect on the employees and workers around the World. If we look into the ILO statistics and their news reports, it states that, there was a decline in working hours globally, which means that 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy