Safety first
The government was criticised for its new coronavirus slogan, ‘Stay alert’. What are the most common safety slogans in use in workplaces?
— ‘Safety is our number one priority’
— ‘Safety is no accident’
— ‘Take five and stay alive’
— ‘The key to safety is in your hands’
— ‘No safety, know pain’
The word ‘alert’ doesn’t appear until number ten: ‘Stay alert, don’t get hurt’.
Source: safetyrisk.net
World of difference
Estimates from around the world of what proportion of people have been infected with Sars-CoV-2:
Chelsea, Massachusetts (Massachusetts General Hospital, mid-April) — 32%
New York (New York State public health department, 23 April) — 21%
Gangelt, Germany (University of Bonn, 9 April) — 15%
Stockholm (KTH Royal Institute of Technology/Karolinska Institute, from samples taken early April) — 10%
Geneva (University Hospital of Geneva, 9 April) —5.5%
Netherlands (RIVM, Dutch National Health Institute, 16 April) — 3%
Santa Clara County, California (Stanford University, 4/5 April) — 2.
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