Zhonggong Net Review | Let Workers Strive for Safe Summer Weather Under High Temperatures | Rights Protection | Workers
Commentator on this website, Guo Zhengang
At present, various parts of the country have entered hot summer weather, and heatstroke prevention and cooling have once again become a focus of attention. In order to ensure the safety of workers who work hard in high temperatures during the summer, the General Office of the All China Federation of Trade Unions recently issued a notice on carrying out the "Labor Union Cooling and Heat Prevention Security Health" activity, which made specific arrangements for labor unions to carry out cooling activities and required further efforts to protect labor protection in high temperature weather, effectively safeguarding the safety and health rights of workers during the hot summer season.
Working in unbearable high temperatures poses a high risk of occupational heatstroke for workers, and the responsibility for labor safety is significant. In recent years, incidents of heatstroke and death among workers have occurred frequently due to hot summer work and hot weather operations. Therefore, ensuring the safe summer for workers working hard under high temperatures is not only an important requirement for the normalization and institutionalization of safety production, but also an important part of strengthening labor safety protection work. It is also an important measure to demonstrate the people-centered work concept.
Ensuring the safe summer for workers working hard under high temperatures is based on employers fulfilling their main responsibility for safety production and taking preventive measures at the source. China's labor law, safety production law, occupational disease prevention and control law, and management measures for heatstroke prevention and cooling have clear provisions for safety production and labor protection. Labor safety and health regulations also have clear requirements for protection during high-temperature weather operations. Relevant parties should supervise and urge employers to fully implement relevant regulations and systems in the labor protection process, so as to strengthen the prevention of occupational heatstroke.
Improving the quality and efficiency of labor safety protection is key to ensuring the safe summer for workers working hard under high temperatures. On the one hand, employers should reasonably layout the production site, improve production processes and operating procedures, arrange work hours reasonably, provide necessary personal protective equipment and high-temperature work rest areas for employees, and prepare sufficient medical emergency facilities to prevent occupational heatstroke; On the other hand, workers should fully understand the hazards of high temperatures, master the protective measures and individual protective methods of high temperature hazards, enhance their self-protection awareness and ability, consciously control risks, and have the ability to prevent hazards.
The core is to increase the efforts to protect the rights and interests of workers who work hard under high temperatures during the summer. As the "mother's family" and caring person of employees, trade unions should attach great importance to the heatstroke prevention and cooling work of employees, regard the labor protection work of employees in high-temperature and high-temperature weather operations as an important part of trade union service and protection of employee rights, incorporate it into the important schedule of trade union work, improve work deployment, increase work requirements, optimize the effectiveness and targeting of the "summer cooling" activity, strengthen the accuracy and accessibility of services for key groups and special positions, fully leverage the function of trade union service positions, and help workers solve practical problems. At the same time, representatives of employees and employers carry out specialized negotiations, sign special collective contracts for labor protection, continuously extend the chain of labor protection, and strive to ensure that every employee can enjoy the warm services of the labor union.
Strengthening labor protection supervision is a guarantee to ensure that workers who are striving for high temperatures can spend the summer safely. Although safety production is emphasized every day and every month, there are still some employers who take chances, prioritize form over substance, and even intentionally ignore or fail to implement laws and regulations on labor safety protection, infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of workers and allowing the existence of safety production hazards. For example, failure to provide high-temperature allowances in accordance with regulations, unreasonable arrangement of high-temperature work hours for workers, failure to provide necessary protection for workers, forcing employees to work overtime in high-temperature weather, and inadequate implementation of safety production protection measures. Therefore, relevant functional departments should form a joint effort and comprehensively use measures such as technical guidance, law enforcement inspections, education and training to minimize the adverse effects of summer high temperature weather on the production and life of employees. Trade unions should strengthen the supervision of labor laws, urge employers to strictly implement laws, regulations, and systems, and provide legal assistance for acts that infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of workers.
Heat is merciless, there is love in the world. Let workers who work hard under high temperatures spend the summer safely, effectively safeguard their physical and mental health and life safety, and continuously improve their sense of gain, happiness, and security. Relevant parties should be responsible and conscientious.
