CESI Secretary General Klaus Heeger reiterates CESI’s call for a decisive short-term management of the Corona fallout and bold action by EU and national leaders to mitigate social, economic and financial problems for workers and business that a post-Corona crisis threatens to entail.

Of course dominated by the current Corona crisis, the 2020 World Day for Safety and Health at Work has been placed under the title ‘In the face of a pandemic’.

And we really are in the face of a pandemic.

Some months ago, hardly anybody could have imaged the situation we currently find ourselves in. Tens of thousands of deaths, the economy paralysed, millions of jobs at risk or already lost, entire sectors down, maybe irreversibly.

The public services and their staff, above all health professionals, working beyond their limits; many of whom also infecting and dying themselves.

What remains surprising for me (as a non-expert!) is that I would have expected mechanisms and crisis scenarios in place, at least insistent warnings, of what was to come. At least eventually.

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