Working Conditions

Working Conditions

Working Conditions

The meat packing industry is one of the sensitive industries regarding health and safety. Workers health and safety in this industry is a major concern as it employs more than 100,000 workers and it is considered as the most hazardous industry since it has the highest rate of injuries.

It has been noticed that most of the employees get injured during the first month of working in this industry. Of those workers mostly were cut by machinery equipment and most of the injured workers were 25 years of age or younger.

There are other factors as well that can cause workers injury like animal movement prior to stunning and the other factor can be stunning guns.

Potential hazards in this industry are:

Knife CutsFalls

Back Injuries

Toxic Substances

Cumulative Trauma Disorders

As it has been discussed, there are many risks for the workers in this industry, and it is government responsibility to develop some plans to protect workers in this industry.

All the workers who are working in the meatpacking industry are subject to particular fundamental rights (“U.S. Department-of-Health-and-Human-Services”. 2005).

There are some specific rights which has been listed to establish minimum guidelines in the workplace for workers in the meatpacking industry. We are recommending here some other rights to improve the quality of the workers in the workplace.

These rights are in addition to other rights available to the federal law.Right to Organize

It is recommended that the entire meat packing organization give rights to job opportunities and employees of Nebraska have the right to choose whether to join for the purpose of collective bargaining. Employees in the packaging industry will have the right to join in order to organize without fear of harassment or retaliation by the employer.Rights to a safe workplace

it has been seen that employees of the meatpacking industry can be in subject to probable working conditions safer. we here include some other state like the State of Nebraska who is committed to working with all government agencies appropriating to achieve this goal.  it is recommended that employers also to be committed to achieving this goal. In consideration of this agree to the following:

To establish a safety committee / management to meet regularly in order to inspect safety practices involving but not limited to security concerns arising out of the line of work, and to implement the possible best practices for all employees base on the federal and state laws.

It is recommended that employees should also have the right to file a complaint with the plant safety committee without fearing of reprisal for bringing awareness to the safety committee on security concerns. 

This committee is responsible to point out all the safety issues and come up with a proper planning to resolve all the safety hazard and take the require action to minimize the health and safety problems. An employee will also have the right to refer safety concerns to relevant agencies of the state and / or federal agencies without fear of reprisal.

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