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Baggers have it bad. They?re on their feet all day, repeatedly lifting loads as heavy as 80 lbs., which puts them at risk for musculoskeletal disorders. As for safety, they're largely on their own. In 2001, Congress axed regulations proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) that would have required employers to provide safety training and to compensate injured workers. Instead, OSHA issued voluntary safety guidelines that employers can legally neglect. Yet the official tally of injuries and illnesses among supermarket workers has declined, according to the Food Marketing Institute, which attributes that change in part...
...throat; nausea; coughing; chest tightness; wheezing; skin rashes and allergic reactions." As early as March 2006, FEMA began to receive complaints about formaldehyde odors. After one trailer was tested, an April 2006 e-mail sent from a FEMA attorney to another staffer concluded, "The end result - well above OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) standards... Tester himself developed eye-watering symptoms of exposure." Yet, in response to complaints, FEMA's legal department advised that testing "would imply FEMA's ownership of the issue." Another read, "Do not initiate any testing until we give the OK... Should [tests] indicate some problem...
...retail companies and government offices. TraceSecurity offers traditional risk, compliance and IT assessments, but the part that Stickley loves best is what he calls a "social-engineering engagement." That's a polite term for a break-in. TraceSecurity engineers infiltrate a target organization posing as pest controllers, fire officials, OSHA inspectors and even foreign diplomats; once in, they trick employees into allowing them access to sensitive data. A one-off engagement costs anywhere from $5,000 to $25,000. There are dozens of outfits around the country engaged in some form of social-engineering work, from Atlanta-based Vigilar...
...Cambridge Fire Department Deputy Chief and Public Information Officer James Burns. “The medics stabilized him and transported him out from the hole of the construction site,” which is below street level, he said. The Methuen office of the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) is investigating the incident, said OSHA spokesman John M. Chavez. The investigation by OSHA, which is a division of the US Department of Labor, is looking into whether there was negligence by either Harvard or a contractor, Chavez said. “The law places the responsibility for workplace safety...
...Indeed, it is important to bring to light the fact that charges essentially identical to those made at today’s rally have already been investigated and found to be without merit by the federal agency responsible for investigating workplace safety, OSHA,” Wrinn wrote in an e-mail...