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Amazon testing disinfectant fog at New York warehouse after coronavirus protests
Source: Reuters
BUSINESS NEWS APRIL 7, 2020 / 4:50 PM / UPDATED 31 MINUTES AGO
Amazon testing disinfectant fog at New York warehouse after coronavirus protests
Jeffrey Dastin
3 MIN READ
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is testing the use of disinfectant fog at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York starting on Tuesday, the company told Reuters, following worker protests over the risk of coronavirus infection at the site.
The measure shows how the world’s largest online retailer is aiming to increase safety cleaning without closing facilities essential to its operation, as some workers and elected officials have demanded.
Amazon said it is trying out disinfectant fog as used by airlines and hospitals to further sanitize its facilities. The pilot program follows an announcement last week that the company would check workers’ temperature and make masks available at all U.S. and European sites in its operations network.
“We continue to explore even more preventative measures to support the health and safety of employees, who are providing a critical service in our communities,” Amazon said in a statement.
The New York warehouse, known internally as JFK8, is one of several locations where small groups of Amazon employees have walked out to highlight the risks they face from working where colleagues have become infected with the virus, which causes the sometimes deadly COVID-19 respiratory illness.
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Amazon testing disinfectant fog at New York warehouse after coronavirus protests
Jeffrey Dastin
3 MIN READ
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is testing the use of disinfectant fog at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York starting on Tuesday, the company told Reuters, following worker protests over the risk of coronavirus infection at the site.
The measure shows how the world’s largest online retailer is aiming to increase safety cleaning without closing facilities essential to its operation, as some workers and elected officials have demanded.
Amazon said it is trying out disinfectant fog as used by airlines and hospitals to further sanitize its facilities. The pilot program follows an announcement last week that the company would check workers’ temperature and make masks available at all U.S. and European sites in its operations network.
“We continue to explore even more preventative measures to support the health and safety of employees, who are providing a critical service in our communities,” Amazon said in a statement.
The New York warehouse, known internally as JFK8, is one of several locations where small groups of Amazon employees have walked out to highlight the risks they face from working where colleagues have become infected with the virus, which causes the sometimes deadly COVID-19 respiratory illness.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-amazon-com-warehou/amazon-testing-disinfectant-fog-at-new-york-warehouse-after-coronavirus-protests-idUSKBN21P384
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IMO, we should be following the Chinese model and doing mass disinfection
But what do I know?
