It's called Life and Death in the Warehouse.
From a bit in the article regarding events the researchers heard about from past or present employees.
"We heard stories about women miscarrying on the picking floor and, because there's a PR consciousness in some companies about not calling ambulances, we heard of one woman who they wouldn't call an ambulance for, so she was asked to walk to the bus stop in her bloodied trousers after miscarrying."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/5b92d5ba-7926-46d8-8de1-a323b954d238
On iPlayer too apparently. I'll have to be in the mood to watch this as it sounds like a hard watch.
I spent years working in warehouses picking with high KPI’s and doing long hours. That article reads as a bit sensationalist to be honest. Zero hour contracts weren’t prevalent when I was doing it.
I’d like to think that miscarriages due to work are rare. I’ve also worked in some pretty grim places in my time. Never came across a place that would refuse to call an ambulance. I’d honestly like to see some evidence of the facts that this series is allegedly based on.
Never came across a place that would refuse to call an ambulance.
Friend of mine was put on a bus to hospital after a being blinded (thankfully only temporarily) in an incident in a chemical engineering works because calling an ambulance would mean having to put the accident in the book.
That’s despicable. Even the shittiest places I worked wouldn’t have done that.
It's not warehouses or workplaces that do this, it's people who have no idea about their responsibility and how to actually discharge their duty of care for employees. There are some nasty people who are in positions of power and try to manipulate those, it's up to those within the organisation to stand up and stop daft stuff like this, as for the accident book, it's all about RIDDOR and reporting it to the appropriate areas.
Friend of mine was put on a bus to hospital after a being blinded (thankfully only temporarily) in an incident in a chemical engineering works because calling an ambulance would mean having to put the accident in the book.
Pretty sure there's some major misunderstanding of the H&S systems there!
