Safety

The company controls and interprets its own safety information. The real safety hazards at SDF8 are the sustained physical, psychological, and economic stresses placed on the employee. These hazards are very difficult to quantify and document, so, according to Amazon’s records, it has a stellar safety track record, and it is right to say so, within the parameters in which it records safety data, using its internal auditing system, its internal medical staff, and its internal safety incident reporting thresholds. The danger, in my opinion, is not from an immediate incident. It is from the chronic, cumulative effects of the Amazon labor system on the health and well-being of the employee, the health and well-being of the employee’s family, and the health and well-being of the employee’s community.