Debbie Berkowitz Discusses Worker Safety in Chicken Processing with the John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future

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In this podcast with the John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future Berkowitz teases out in vivid detail how, in the more than 40 years since, the industry has systematically ignored this advice, and used political influence to overwhelm the efforts of federal worker-safety regulators. In the meantime, kill lines have continued to speed up (new window), CTS and other repetitive stress conditions still proliferate (new window) among workers (new window); and they suffer amputations and deaths at multiple times the overall average for U.S. industries.