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Nehawu spokesperson Khaya Xaba said: “We enforce full compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OHS) in all workplaces and ensure that risk assessments and infection control and prevention measures are in place. , and the immediate establishment of OHS committees in all workplaces. .
“Infected workers should return to work only under the following conditions: they have completed the mandatory 10 days of self-isolation, they have undergone a medical evaluation confirming their fitness to work, [and] they strictly adhere to personal hygiene, wearing masks and social distancing, ”Xaba said.
The union seeks to explicitly prohibit managers from issuing or communicating any type of threats or intimidating notices or letters to workers in such a way that they are forced to work when they have been diagnosed with Covid-19.
The union’s demands to improve workplace safety are based on “credible figures for the total workforce” and the type of work performed by occupational categories of employees.
