Zhejiang employers have taken multiple measures to protect the health of workers. What new requirements does high temperature place on enterprises?
The first is to issue high temperature allowances in a timely manner. In the persistent high temperature weather, labor protection and labor risk prevention are very urgent. The notice jointly issued by multiple departments requires employers to guide and urge employers to implement various heatstroke prevention and cooling measures and promptly issue high temperature allowances to qualified workers; human resources and social security departments at all levels must strengthen law enforcement inspections, unblock reporting and complaint channels, and investigate and deal with them in accordance with the law. Illegal behavior by the employer. Labor wages shall not be used as high temperature subsidies. Deductions will be made if work is suspended or working hours are shortened due to hot weather.
The second step is to conduct first aid knowledge training for employees to improve their protective awareness and capabilities. During work, employees in the front and back processes are arranged to take care of each other and report any abnormalities in a timely manner. The production line is equipped with heatstroke prevention and cooling medicines, as well as cooling drinks such as cold drinks and mung bean soup. Comprehensively inspect the ventilation and cooling facilities to ensure that the equipment and facilities are operating well. Place ice cubes in the workshop to reduce the ambient temperature.
Furthermore, arrange working hours reasonably to avoid working during high temperature periods. Make full use of the golden hours in the morning and evening to arrange construction operations and meet the construction deadline. Reduce outdoor working time and reduce labor intensity. When the temperature is high, arrange indoor work and rotation work. Equipped with heatstroke prevention and cooling facilities and materials, and carried out "send cooling" and condolences to ensure the health of employees. Strengthen on-site inspections, vigorously promote heatstroke prevention and cooling and heat stroke first aid knowledge in pre-class training, and improve workers' safety awareness.
You must know that functional departments must urge employers to implement various regulations, arrange working hours reasonably, equip necessary protective equipment, and pay high temperature allowances in full according to regulations to ensure the health and life safety of workers. Due to the relatively flexible employment forms of the platform, the new employment methods have brought some new challenges to the protection of workers' rights and interests under high temperatures. For example, some media investigations found that some food delivery platforms have different high-temperature treatments for riders with different employment forms; some Internet companies replace high-temperature subsidies with weather subsidies, order redemption rewards, etc.; once workers in new employment forms encounter occupational heatstroke, they will Faced with difficulties in identifying labor relations and proving work-related injury rights.