With work a key vector of Covid-19 transmission, this report examines why it is critical that occupational health and safety measures take centre stage in mitigation policies. Workers in sectors declared essential by state authorities have been mandated to continue working in physical settings...

Schon vor der Corona-Krise war die Situation der Beschäftigten in der Fleischwirtschaft beklagenswert. Es wird Zeit, über die Vorteile einer stärkeren Regulierung der Branche nachzudenken.

In this article, we argue for application of the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) to proactive incidence prevention in the public health system response to COVID-19. HFACS is a framework of causal categories of human errors typically applied for systematic retrospective...

Die Corona-Ausbrüche in einigen großen deutschen Fleischbetrieben haben die seit Langem bekannten Missstände in der Branche wieder in den Fokus des öffentlichen Interesses gerückt. Mit dem nun vorgelegten Arbeitsschutzkontrollgesetz und dem darin vorgesehenen Verbot von Werkverträgen und...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a surge in online shopping and e-commerce activities as governments imposed social isolation orders and consumers were advised to avoid large crowds and limit physical interactions. Building upon the notion of trust and digital safety in online...

There has been increasing interest in the use of home monitoring technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic to decrease interpersonal contacts and the resultant risks of exposure for people to the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. This Perspective explores how the accelerated development of these...

This study investigates the forces that contributed to severe shortages in personal protective equipment in the US during the COVID-19 crisis. Problems from a dysfunctional costing model in hospital operating systems were magnified by a very large demand shock triggered by acute need in...