Showing posts with label General Duty Clause (OSHA says USPS is responsible for protecting workers from heat). Show all posts
Showing posts with label General Duty Clause (OSHA says USPS is responsible for protecting workers from heat). Show all posts

Sunday, October 22, 2023

The USPS Is Falsifying Safety Documents as Its Workers Die of Heat

"Even after a mail carrier’s recent death, the company continues to violate its own rules. ...Through interviews and union surveys completed in writing by individual Dallas mail carriers and obtained by the Texas Observer, we found that in the months following Gates’s death, the USPS seems to have gone back to business as usual. Mail carriers report that management is still pressuring them to speed up, work overtime hours, and forgo breaks. The USPS continues to violate the standards of its own Heat Illness Prevention Program (HIPP)—some ..."    


This Article is From: www.thenation.com


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Friday, January 11, 2019

Mail Carrier’s Heat-Related Death Leads to $150,000 in Fines

OSHA says USPS is responsible for protecting workers from heat

"...USPS was cited for a repeated violation of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act’s General Duty Clause. The citations, which come with $149,664 in total proposed penalties..."    


This Article is From: bloombergenvironment.com
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