How prepared are workers’ compensation systems for COVID-19?
Workers' Compensation Perspectives
MARCH 23, 2020
Few “industrial diseases” were included in early legislation and typically by industry or process ( things like lead poisoning in smelting or sulfur poisoning in coal mining) and not diseases. The “Spanish Flu” pandemic of 1918 provided ample proof that a pandemic virus was a real risk to workers particularly in healthcare centres.
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