UW News

Carrie Freshour


May 27, 2020

UW experts on challenges to worker safety in meat processing industry

Meat processing plants face challenges in keeping workers safe during the pandemic. Carrie Freshour, a UW assistant professor of geography, and Marissa Baker, an assistant professor in the UW Department of Environmental and Occupational Health SciencesĀ and an expert on worker safety related to infectious diseases, provides comments on what the industry can do to protect workers.