Amazon.com warehouses' high worker injury rates

[Axtremus]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/06/01/amazon-osha-injury-rate/

Using OSHA data, that's the Washington Post writing up Amazon.com warehouses' high worker injury rates. WaPo and Amazon.com are essentially owned by the same person.

Before 2020, Amazon.com warehouse's worker injury rate often more than double the non-Amazon.com warehouse's worker injury rate. In 2020, Amazon.com warehouse's worker injury rate dropped a but to slightly less than double the non-Amazon.com warehouse's worker injury rate

[Horace]

I bet Amazon is well known by its workers to have generous, few-questions-asked policies regarding workplace injuries, as compared to other warehouse jobs. I have no data to back that up, but it is my guess.

[George K]

@horace said in Amazon.com warehouses' high worker injury rates:

I bet Amazon is well known by its workers to have generous, few-questions-asked policies regarding workplace injuries, as compared to other warehouse jobs. I have no data to back that up, but it is my guess.

I'm sure this is totally unrelated:

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002409858/amazon-wont-test-jobseekers-for-marijuana

Amazon will no longer test most job applicants for marijuana use in the latest sign of America's changing relationship with pot. Amazon, the second-largest private employer in the U.S., also says it now backs legalizing marijuana nationwide.

"In the past, like many employers, we've disqualified people from working at Amazon if they tested positive for marijuana use," the company said in a blog post on Tuesday. "However, given where state laws are moving across the U.S., we've changed course."

Marijuana users and advocates are cheering the news, but it may also bring relief to Amazon's hiring managers: The company operates — and is rapidly expanding into — places where marijuana is legal.

[Jolly]

As somebody who does post-accident drug screens, I can only tell you a significant number are positive for THC. The problem is that it hangs around for so long in the body, it's hard to know if it is a contributing factor.

Opioids, not so much. They tend to be the other one I see a lot. Of course, that's just a very small sample size, in a particular part of the state.