What is something that you absolutely can’t live without? No, we’re not talking about your iPhone, we’re talking about water. Clean, accessible water is a vital part of our lives and that is why, in the second part of the series of our essential services, we are looking at how to protect those working in water essential services.
Essential Services: Protecting Public Works and Infrastructure Workers, The Champions Behind the Scenes
When a sewer line breaks in your neighborhood, who comes to fix it? If a crack develops in the bridge you drive over every day, who makes sure that it doesn’t get so bad the bridge collapses? Or what about the worker who comes when you have a family of skunks under your deck? These are all public works and infrastructure support services workers who, often behind the scenes, make sure our society runs as normally as possible by supporting public services and maintaining the operation of buildings and businesses such as hospitals and senior facilities.
Essential Services: Heroes on the Frontline - Protecting Our Home Healthcare Workers
No other remote worker demographic is more at risk right now that healthcare workers. Literally, on the front lines of the COVID-19 battle, healthcare workers such as doctors and nurses are treating those with the deadly virus, selflessly putting their lives on the line to do so. This is evident in the fact that as of April 15, more than 9,000 healthcare workers have contracted COVID-19.
While still a dangerous place to work, hospitals are more predictable and potentially less dangerous than the homes of patients where home healthcare workers venture, often alone, to provide needed care.
Essential Services: Food and Agriculture Workers, Protecting Those Who Feed Our Communities
Farms and agricultural operations must make it a priority to protect the more than 22 million workers who help provide healthy, affordable food for the shelves, produce bins, and meat and dairy aisles of the nation’s many grocery stores and markets. But in addition to feeding and nourishing our communities and families, the agriculture industry is a key driver of economic growth in the United States, injecting over $100 billion to the US economy. Our workforce relies on food and agriculture workers as well. Agriculture and its related industries provide employment for
Essential Services: Energy Workers Protecting the Lives of Those Who Power Our Communities
While many of us are working from home, social distancing ourselves and our families to slow and hopefully prevent the spread of COVID-19, we are realizing how reliant we are on energy services, which keep our lights on, our homes warm and the fridges and ovens on so we can feed our families.
We are going to look at what can be done to protect our energy workers, those who are working behind the scenes in energy services so that we can maintain some sort of normalcy within our homes and in other essential services like healthcare while the