- Guardian: Concerns over training at emergency morgues run by UK festival firm Archived Message
- Guardian: Concerns over training at emergency morgues run by UK festival firm - Sinister Burt April 29, 2020, 9:05 pm
- seems so - dan April 29, 2020, 11:20 pm
Posted by Sinister Burt
on April 29, 2020, 9:05 pm
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Is the world turning into brasseye? https://www.dumptheguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/29/concerns-over-training-emergency-morgues-run-uk-festival-firm-london "A music festival company contracted to operate emergency mortuaries in London has been accused of inadequately training workers in handling bodies, and demanding staff sign non-disclosure agreements. Workers have not been issued with written contracts of employment but are told by text message when to report for work, according to two recruits who contacted the Guardian. The temporary mortuaries, with capacity for thousands of bodies, have been set up as overflow facilities in case hospital, funeral home and local authority morgues are overwhelmed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The strategic coordination group (SCG), part of the London resilience forum, an umbrella group of emergency and public services coordinating the response to Covid-19, contracted Loud Sound, an events management firm that specialises in music festivals, to run the mortuaries and transport deceased people. Two people told the Guardian they were recruited to work as “body handlers”. Recruits were sent for a day’s training at Breakspear crematorium in Ruislip, Middlesex, which lasted only two hours, they said. No medical professionals or morticians were present, they claimed, and the training consisted of “an ‘operations manager’ reading aloud from sheets of paper”. The recruits were told there were three jobs available: drivers; drivers’ “buddies”, who would move bodies into vans and accompany the drivers on their journeys; and body handlers, who would unload and store bodies at the mortuaries." Ctd. |
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