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What’s so funny about health and safety? (COVID-19 blog no. 23)

What’s so funny about health and safety? (COVID-19 blog no. 23)

Dignity at work and the rights of the worker are at the heart of Catholic Social Teaching, which stands in total contradiction to the culture of profit-driven indifference to the lives of ordinary people in their places of work. Yet deaths from workplace accidents or diseases remain staggeringly high on a global scale, with the International Labor Organisation citing an average of more than 2.78m per year.