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Is anyone within the engineering sector noticing any specific areas where positive covis cases are prevalent?
I may have noticed something within our business but don't want to influence answers to this question by suggesting something.
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I have seen it in the food processing industry, but I assume this is not what you are looking since it is public knowledge. Recirculated cool, moist air, loud machines encouraging shouting, working at a fast pace, little to no sick pay and the fact that many of the workers live in houses of multiple occupancy all exacerbate an industry that already struggles with virus outbreaks.
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the office of national statistics has some numbers but they are from early in the outbreak and don't seem to have been updated since. Also they are broken down by the standard occupation categories: Here is the summary:
Two major groups of occupations were found to have similarly high rates of death involving COVID-19. The first was elementary workers with 39.7 deaths per 100,000 men (421 deaths). The occupations in this group include those performing mostly routine tasks, such as construction workers and cleaners. The second was caring, leisure and other service occupations (39.6 deaths per 100,000 men, or 160 deaths), which include occupations such as nursing assistants, care workers and ambulance drivers. Other major occupational groups with high mortality rates of death involving COVID-19, when compared with the rate among men of working age in the population, included: - process, plant and machine operatives occupations (30.1 deaths per 100,000 men; 473 deaths)
- administrative and secretarial occupations (26.0 deaths per 100,000 men; 125 deaths)
- sales and customer service occupations (24.7 deaths per 100,000 men; 98 deaths)
- skilled trades occupations (23.9 deaths per 100,000 men; 500 deaths)
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