"Corona Reveals the Inadequacy of Implementing Occupational Health and Safety Standards in Jordan" JLW, 1 Nov 2020

Experts confirmed that the COVID-19 pandemic revealed challenges and gaps in the application of occupational health and safety measures in the enterprises, and the need to develop national programs and policies that allow workers to continue work safely.

This issue emerged in an online dialogue session held by Phenix Center for Economic and Informatics Studies to discuss a report entitled "The Impact of Corona on Occupational Health and Safety in Jordan", as part of a series of specialized sessions held by Phenix Center in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation on "COVID-19 and the Labor Market".

In the introduction, Phenix Center’s director, Ahmad Awad, stressed the crucial importance of occupational health and safety, representing one of the criteria for decent work and a prerequisite for satisfactory and just working conditions, as stipulated in the Jordanian Constitution, the International Covenant on Economic and Social Rights, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.