Warehouses and distribution centers are targeted to have safer conditions
- OSHA is boosting the inspection of warehouses in warehousing, storage, and distribution yard operations in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
- The emphasis of this new program will address the hazardous conditions these workers continuously face every day.
- OSHA aims to reduce injury/illness rates by conducting comprehensive inspections to address hazards.
- These hazards may include those associated with powered industrial trucks, life safety, and fire suppression.
New York secures OSHA funding
- The U.S. Dept. of Labor provided $127,454 to the Western New York Council on Occupational Safety and Health for workplace safety measures.
- The federal grant will allow Western New York OSHA to offer training, in various languages, related to workplace violence.
- Western New York OSHA is expecting to assist 430 local employers and workers in the healthcare, hospitality, restaurant, retail, service, and construction industries.
- This program provides funding for workplace safety and hazard training, as well as education on workers’ rights and employer responsibilities.
House Republicans opposed COVID standard
- House Republicans are questioning an initiative by the Biden Administration to continue promoting a COVID-19 standard for health care workers.
- This action follows comments by the President that the “pandemic is over” on 60 Minutes
- Reps. Virginia Foxx, of North Carolina, and Fred Keller, of Pennsylvania, called it “the height of foolishness” that OSHA is continuing to move forward with the standard.
- “It is overdue for Washington bureaucrats to stop using the pandemic as a pretense to increase top-down federal control over the workplace,” the Republican lawmakers said.
Injured workers taken to UC Davis
- Four paving workers in Nevada that were burned with asphalt on a job were taken to the University of California.
- All of the workers are expected to survive.
- The most seriously injured worker has undergone several skin grafts and is expected to be in intensive care for the next four months.
- Firefighters and deputies responded to an initial report of a truck explosion that had set the workers on fire.