Michigan Rep. Stevens wants to form task force that would publish safety guidelines for workers

WASHINGTON - As Michigan's officials ponder the best ways to restart the economies, the state's industries are looking for guidance to keep their workers safe while ramping up production. 

On the heels of the City of Detroit posting its safety guidelines comes a bill introduced by Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Rochester Hills) that calls for the creation of a federal task force focused on worker protection. Under the Essential Worker Protection Act, an interagency task force would publish and disseminate the best practices to companies for how to keep their employees the safest they can be.

The guidelines would be applicable to grocery stores, restaurants, manufacturing facilities, pharmacies, utilities, postal delivery, and other critical work sites. 

It is essential for these enterprises, as well as other workplaces that will be coming back once their state shut down period, concludes, that we provide full transparency of scientific data and research on COVID-19 to understand and inform the best health guidelines for workplaces and workers," read a statement from Stevens.