Weave a strong safety net for flexible employment (observatory)
If flexible employment patterns cannot be woven with a safety net, it will be difficult to develop in a healthy and orderly manner.
For this reason, the whole society needs to work together to effectively solve this new security issue
In just one month, the Shenzhen Public Security Traffic Management Department investigated and dealt with 18,600 cases of traffic violations involving courier brothers and takeaway riders, involving many problems such as retrograde, running red lights, illegal occupation of roads, etc.... In recent years, courier brothers, takeaway riders, and online car-hailing Flexible employment forms such as drivers have gradually become important channels for the people to obtain employment and increase income. At the same time, they have also brought some new safety risks, and new issues of safety supervision have been raised.
For example, how to check the safety of production equipment?
Some flexible employees engaged in transportation services frequently use electric bicycles, cars, trucks, etc. day after day, making these transportation tools more susceptible to wear, aging, and accidents.
How to ensure the regular maintenance, safety and reliability of transportation vehicles is a regulatory difficulty.
Another example is how to implement safety training?
Every platform company often has tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of flexible employees.
These employees have different ages and educational backgrounds and high job mobility. It is also a challenge to let everyone receive strict pre-job safety training and implement safety production responsibilities in their daily work.
The platform economy is cross-sectoral and cross-industry, and flexible employment has a large scale and wide distribution. The safety supervision work involves multiple departments such as public security, transportation, emergency response, and market supervision.
How to strengthen inter-departmental linkages and form a joint supervisory force also remains to be explored.
Security is a prerequisite for development.
If flexible employment patterns cannot be woven with a safety net, it will be difficult to develop in a healthy and orderly manner.
For this reason, the whole society needs to work together to effectively solve this new security issue.
Platform companies must strengthen the concept of safe development and implement the main responsibility for safe production.
If you manage production and operation, you must manage safety. This is true for any production entity. Platform companies that provide flexible employment opportunities must also take the responsibility of the main body of safe production and manage online and offline safety simultaneously.
We are pleased to see that in recent years, many platform companies have used advanced technology and innovative management methods to improve their safety levels: some platforms have launched test functions to urge employees to take safety exams on a regular basis; some have increased the frequency of video inspections to ensure production during working hours Safety; some strengthen safety audits such as traffic accidents to better restrain dangerous behaviors.
We look forward to more companies launching similar measures to implement more detailed and practical safety responsibilities from within.
Relevant departments should further straighten out the mechanism and improve the level of supervision.
Since the beginning of this year, some regions and departments have effectively reduced production safety risks through joint law enforcement and joint performance of responsibilities: The Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments have jointly interviewed 11 online car-hailing platform companies to require investigation and rectification of safety risks; Chengdu multi-departmental joint Enforce law enforcement, strictly investigate non-compliant online car-hailing; Guangzhou multi-departmental establishment of a joint management work mechanism for electric bicycles in the food delivery industry.
These regulations and measures have largely benefited from the newly revised Safety Production Law that came into effect on September 1 this year.
This law stipulates that “where the responsibilities of safety production supervision and management in emerging industries and fields are not clear, local people’s governments at or above the county level shall determine the supervision and management departments in accordance with the principle of similar business.” “Departments with safety production supervision and management responsibilities” They should cooperate with each other, manage together, share information, and share resources".
Relevant regulations and measures not only determine the main body of supervision, but also promote the joint supervision of supervision. They have strong guidance and operability, and must be implemented well and constantly grasped.
In addition, it is necessary for relevant departments and platform companies to use training, education, incentives and other means to promote the broad masses of flexible employment personnel to raise their safety awareness.
Especially the courier brothers and takeaway riders who run around on the road every day, always keep safety in mind, and don’t cause risks and accidents by running fast.
We expect that flexible employment forms will be able to go safer and longer while taking big strides.
Qiu Chaoyi