A new report, which found slight improvement in Amazon injury rates, coincides with a shareholder resolution calling for an independent health-and-safety audit.
For the second year in a row, an annual report’s findings that serious-injury rates at Amazon.com Inc.’s warehouses were more than twice the rates at other warehouses coincides with a shareholder resolution calling for an independent audit of worker health and safety.
Injuries at the company’s warehouses totaled almost 39,000 last year, during which Amazon employed 36% of all U.S. warehouse workers but accounted for 53% of all serious injuries in the industry, the union coalition’s report said. “I’m sure my heat-related injury was not documented,” Rivera said, adding that he fears retaliation because he has spoken up about working conditions and is involved with Inland Empire Amazon Workers United, a group that is trying to organize the company’s workers.
Amazon’s own workplace-safety report showed some improvements, including an 11% year-over-year decline in what it calls recordable incident rates. Another company spokesperson also took issue with what the SOC used as a metric for serious injuries — DART , a metric used by OSHA — and said Amazon prefers to look at lost-time incident rates, or “the most serious injuries that require someone to take time off,” as a more accurate gauge of serious injuries.
Amazon investors are watching the company’s worker-related issues. Last year, a first-time shareholder resolution calling for an audit of warehouse working conditions received 44% of overall shareholder votes, or 53.4% if insider votes were excluded. Ricketts cited developments since Amazon’s shareholder meeting last May — including a court decision late last year ordering the company to cease and desist from firing employees for protected activities, and several OSHA safety citations — as examples that “further illustrate why an independent health and safety audit is so necessary at Amazon.”
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