#workplace safety

[preservationofnormalcy]

I feel confident enough to post these now. A collection of all the existing posters after some edits from the other post that got 13k notes! These are full size/quality. Go nuts.

You may use them for wallpapers, tabletop campaigns, whatever. Consider tipping me or buying a print or sticker on ko-fi here! If you do use them, let me know what for, or send pictures!

#ooc post #office for the preservation of normalcy #poster design #artists on tumblr #urban fantasy #workplace safety #cryptid #fae #aliens #ufos #demons

[prokopetz]

Do you think cremation places bother to clean the giant blender between "customers"? When they grind up your desiccated bones to produce fake ashes for your loved ones to scatter, are said loved ones also getting little bits of everyone who's come before you?

#death #cremation #workplace safety

[crawfishcomic]

UNPLUG!

#CrawfishComic #July 30 2023 #workplace safety

[knight-in-sour-armor]

#Oh danger #Somewhere an OSHA handbook just burst into flames #Funny #Scissor lift #Workplace Safety

[entitledrichpeople]

The railroad corporations blocked safety laws, the union fought for safer conditions, the federal government intervened against the union.  This is the results.

#environment #Norfolk Southern #railroads #workplace safety #train derailment #toxic chemicals

[therobotmonster]

Meet Mrs. Natalie Nice...

Natalie is a hard worker in one of today's high-end scientific fields. Why, her boss wouldn't know where the test tubes were kept if not for her tireless efforts! Well, not quite tireless...

She's quite tired. Mrs. Nice has been burning the candle at both ends to impress the boss, and she's about to make a terrible mistake because of it.

Can you spot the mistake Mrs. Nice is making?

That's right! Carelessness in the workplace has consequences!

That wasn't coffee! (good) Coffee doesn't glow green!

Whoopsie! Now Mrs Nice is Mrs. Naughty...lus! Nautilus.

And Mrs. Nautilus is not happy!

By not watching what she was doing Natalie has wasted her whole lunch break turning herself into an abomination of science. All without noting dosage, temperature, and other important factors, not to mention completely circumventing the double blind protocol. Her data is completely invalid for the larger project.

Don't be a Mrs. Nautilus, be a Mrs. Nice! Remember:

Take regular breaks, get plenty of rest, and-

-If the Goo's Alight, it's Not alright!

Drinking glowing goo is the 1% cause of monsterism in adults ages 18-35, please science responsibly, a message from your friends at Cocytus Comics.

Each pic used a different prompt around the basic format of:

Secretary with a bob-haircut, redhead, green blouse and pearls, , , comic panel by Jack Kirby and Alex Toth, 1968, in the style of 60s Marvel

a secretary with lavender skin, tentacles for hair, , , comic panel by jack kirby and alex toth, 1968, in the style of 60s marvel

#Mrs. Nautilus & Mrs. Nice #tyrannomax #coctyus comics #ai assisted art #ai edits #dall-e 3 #unreality #generative art #workplace safety #monsterism #octopus #cephalopod #mutation

[newsfromstolenland]

Quebec Labour Minister Jean Boulet has amended his law project, Bill 19, regulating youth employment in the province to allow children under 14 to work in agriculture, provided the business has a maximum of 10 employees.

The proposed law, tabled in March, would limit the number of weekly hours Quebecers 16 and under can work during the school year to 17. It also sets the minimum legal working age at 14 — with some exceptions for jobs like babysitting or tutoring.

But Boulet's amendment would allow small agricultural businesses to be exempt from the new minimum working age and employ children as young as twelve.

[...]

This new exemption echoes the demands of employers, who asked for more exceptions to allow children under 14 to work.

But there are concerns over the agricultural environment being risky as injuries in young people are frequent. Some doubt the ability of Quebec's labour regulator, La Commission des normes, de l'équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CNESST), to ensure the safety of children in the workplace.

Full article

Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics

#cdnpoli #canada #canadian news #canadian politics #québec #quebec #child labour #workers rights #children's rights #labour #agriculture #agricultural industry #jean boulet #bill 19 #workplace safety #mine #what the fuck man #la commission des normes de l'équité de la santé et de la sécurité du travail #CNESST #child labour laws

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Dave Jamieson and Alexander C. Kaufman at HuffPost:

Failed presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a bill late last week barring Florida localities from requiring employers to provide outdoor workers with access to water, rest and shade, outraging workplace safety advocates who say the new law will kill people.

Backed by the agricultural and construction industries, the controversial legislation is what’s known as a “preemption” law: It forbids cities and counties from pursuing their own ordinances on a particular subject, in this case protections from extreme heat. The law effectively nullifies a proposal in Miami-Dade County that would require some employers to maintain a heat safety program and provide employees with water and shade on hot days. The county commission recently withdrew the proposal after the state legislation put its legality in doubt. The preemption bill recently passed the Republican-controlled state House and Senate, along with a similar measure that prevents jurisdictions from requiring employers to pay livable wages on government-funded projects. Unions and other progressive groups said blocking heat regulations would endanger farm and construction workers and anyone else who labors in one of the hottest states in the country. “Someone is going to die as a result of this legislation,” Kim Smith, a telecommunications technician, told HuffPost last month.

[...] Last year, Texas Republicans passed a similar preemption bill that blocked localities from implementing heat protections as well as other ordinances related to housing and labor. The legislation, known as Texas’ “death star bill,” appeared designed to thwart local laws in Austin and Dallas that guaranteed water breaks for workers.

Florida Republicans pushing for the preemption law said they wanted to avoid a “patchwork” of local regulations around the state related to heat safety, arguing the matter was better left to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. But OSHA does not yet have a heat-specific safety rule, and proposals to create a uniform, statewide standard in Florida have gone nowhere over the years because of a lack of Republican support. More than 430 workers have died due to environmental heat exposure since 2011, according to OSHA. But relatively few jurisdictions have laws in place that require employers to provide water, shade and heat safety training. Just three — California, Oregon and Washington — mandate heat breaks for outdoor workers. Minnesota has heat standards for indoor workers, while Colorado does for farmworkers.

Just another terrible anti-workplace safety law signed in by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).

#Florida #Extreme Weather #Workers' Rights #Ron DeSantis #Workplace Safety #Florida HB433 #Florida SB1492 #Heat Safety

[reasonsforhope]

"How much safer has construction really gotten? Let’s take a look.

Construction used to be incredibly dangerous

By the end of the 19th century, what’s sometimes called the second industrial revolution had made US industry incredibly productive. But it had also made working conditions more dangerous...

One source estimates 25,000 total US workplace fatalities in 1908 (Aldrich 1997). Another 1913 estimate gave 23,000 deaths against 38 million workers. Per capita, this is about 61 deaths per 100,000 workers, roughly 17 times the rate of workplace fatalities we have today...

In a world of dangerous work, construction was one of the most dangerous industries of all. By the 1930s and early 1940s the occupational death rate for all US workers had fallen to around 36-37 per 100,000 workers. At the same time [in the 1930s and early 1940s], the death rate in construction was around 150-200 deaths per 100,000 workers, roughly five times as high... By comparison, the death rate of US troops in Afghanistan in 2010 was about 500 per 100,000 troops. By the mid-20th century, the only industry sector more dangerous than construction was mining, which had a death rate roughly 50% higher than construction.

We see something similar if we look at injuries. In 1958 the rate of disabling injuries in construction was 3 times as high as the manufacturing rate, and almost 5 times as high as the overall worker rate.

Increasing safety

Over the course of the 20th century, construction steadily got safer. 

Between 1940 and 2023, the occupational death rate in construction declined from 150-200 per 100,000 workers to 13-15 per 100,000 workers, or more than 90%. Source: US Statistical Abstract, FRED

For ironworkers, the death rate went from around 250-300 per 100,000 workers in the late 1940s to 27 per 100,000 today.

Tracking trends in construction injuries is harder, due to data consistency issues. A death is a death, but what sort of injury counts as “severe,” or “disabling,” or is even worth reporting is likely to change over time. [3] But we seem to see a similar trend there. Looking at BLS Occupational Injuries and Illnesses data, between the 1970s and 2020s the injury rate per 100 workers declined from 15 to 2.5.

Source of safety improvements

Improvements in US construction safety were due to a multitude of factors, and part of a much broader trend of improving workplace safety that took place over the 20th century.

The most significant early step was the passage of workers compensation laws, which compensated workers in the event of an injury, increasing the costs to employers if workers were injured (Aldrich 1997). Prior to workers comp laws, a worker or his family would have to sue his employer for damages and prove negligence in the event of an injury or death. Wisconsin passed the first state workers comp law in 1911, and by 1921 most states had workers compensation programs.

The subsequent rising costs of worker injuries and deaths caused employers to focus more on workplace safety. According to Mark Aldrich, historian and former OSHA economist, “Companies began to guard machines and power sources while machinery makers developed safer designs. Managers began to look for hidden dangers at work, and to require that workers wear hard hats and safety glasses.” Associations and trade journals for safety engineering, such as the American Society of Safety Professionals, began to appear...

In 1934, the Department of Labor established a Division of Labor Standards, which would later become the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), to “promote worker safety and health.” The 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which legalized collective bargaining, allowed trade unions to advocate for worker safety.

Following WWII, the scale of government intervention in addressing social problems, including worker safety, dramatically increased.

In addition to OSHA and environmental protection laws, this era also saw the creation of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

OSHA in particular dramatically changed the landscape of workplace safety, and is sometimes viewed as “the culmination of 60 or more years of effort towards a safe and hazard-free workplace.”"

-via Construction Physics (Substack newsletter by Brian Potter), 3/9/23

#construction #osha #workplace #workplace safety #workers rights #labor rights #occupational health #nlra #collective bargaining #united states #us history #labor unions #industrial revolution #this is why unions and regulations are so fucking important by the way #if you have not studied late 1800s and early 1900s labor history in the US #you really can't grasp how incredibly dangerous things used to be #and how much proof we have that corporations suck #government regulations

[isaacsapphire]

hello I'm a weird anon and definitely not one of your followers in disguise. uh shit I didn't prepare an actual question. oh I know. you worked blue collar jobs in the past - what is your favorite PPE and why?

if this isn't weird enough insert the phrase "for horny reasons" in the previous question.

This is delightful. For non horny reasons, safety toe boots (although they're not non-horny either, they're still boots!)

For horny reasons...

It's fall harnesses. Hands down no questions. Look them up, they're just the irl functional equivalent of a leatherman's kink harness and presumably the original inspiration for the kink harness. I love how they frame a guy's ass.

#PPE #osha compliant #safety toe boots #fall protection #oh geeze I can tag asks now #i don't tag for that anymore #osha core #workplace safety

[allthecanadianpolitics]

After weeks of organizing, employees of an embattled B.C. housing provider, the Atira Women’s Resource Society, have officially unionized.

More than 500 workers at over 35 Atira worksites joined the BC General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) on Monday, citing the need to address safety concerns, staffing shortages and other living and working conditions at Atira’s housing facilities.

“As frontline workers we know how to make Atira better for workers and for residents,” Atira women’s support worker Kadidja Youssouf said in a BCGEU news release.

“By unionizing, we now have the collective power to speak out, and for our ideas to be heard.” [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #British Columbia #unionization #union organizing #workers' rights #harassment tw #workplace misconduct #workplace safety

[lesserknowncryptids]

Lesser Known Cryptid 12/7/20: Concern For Safety Owl

#cryptids #owl #workplace safety #mascot #lesser known cryptids #classic cryptid sunday

[hecho-a-mano]

She's a 10 but her personal workspace isn't OSHA compliant.

#osha #workplace safety #shitpost #funny joke #be careful when dating #folks #text #queue are lovely #funny #jokes

[angie-j-kay]

So how's YOUR week going, Angie?

I started a new job, at a warehouse that is a huge local employer. I'd worked there before, and it had been DISMAL, but I heard that things had improved there and I needed some dough so I reapplied.

NOPE.

Orientation was Friday morning, and by Friday night I had emailed HR expressing my concerns. Our OSHA trainer, between weird complaints about "wokeness" and the Second Amendment, had skipped over some government-mandated safety training. Among these, and the one I was most concerned by, was the Hazmat training. Said training was just a one-page multiple choice test, which he handed us and then gave us the answers to. "Number three, A. Number four, D. Number five, false... Okay, now sign them and hand them back." When I said that I'd like to actually READ the test at the very least, he started using me as an example to the rest of the orientation class that "I'd better not see you making fun of people who can't read!"

You know that advice you read online where you should follow up and document EVERY interaction with managers and HR on email, to cover your butt when things go wrong? Yep.

By Wednesday, I had an email chain with HR recorded, including the details of an HR rep telling me that I would never ACTUALLY be exposed to hazardous materials on my floor, so that mandatory training wasn't going to be a big deal anyway, so no worries.

My floor dealt with alcohol-based perfumes, aerosol hairsprays, aerosol insecticides, and portable phone chargers with lithium-ion batteries. All of these have to be packed in specific ways for shipment or they're a huge safety hazard to everyone in range, and they are NOT getting packed in those ways. I know, because I managed to get a photo on my phone of said dangerous packing, and it's not the warehouse packers' faults because if they went through the same orientation I did, THEY WERE NEVER TOLD NOT TO DO THIS.

Anyway, I just learned that there's a government OSHA office less than 45 minutes away from my house. Guess who I'm taking this email chain and photograph to next Monday!

#osha #workplace safety #employment advice #DOCUMENT EVERYTHING EVEN WHEN IT SEEMS INNOCUOUS

[magdolenelives]

From @MaskTogetherAmerica (bolding mine): "IN-N-OUT’s customer service line confirmed that masks are banned for workers in AZ, CO, TX, NV & UT, unless they have a doctor’s note. Meanwhile, if you work for @innout in CA or OR, it’s up to you but you must wear only company-provided N95s if you choose to #MaskUp! (Different masks may be allowed with a valid medical note.) “N95 masks provide the highest level of protection for C0VID-19 and other viruses and are recommended by OSHA for other respiratory protection.” – the policy stated. @Forbes contributor Dr. Judy Stone shared valuable details in her story: In-N-Out Burger’s New Masking Policy Threatens Their Employees’ Health. Puzzling, isn’t it? 🧐 See CA & OR Mask Policy: https://bit.ly/3Q2LfNJ Call 1-800-786-1000 to let IN-N-OUT know how you feel about their 😷policy. Key points from Dr. Stone’s article: https://bit.ly/3XUR5CB 👉60% of people in the U.S. have underlying conditions that put them at increased risk for severe C19. 👉Forcing employees to disclose reasons for mask exemption likely violates medical privacy. 👉It’s unfair to ask employees to get a doctor’s note which would require seeing a doctor. 👉Requiring proof of a disability might be considered a violation of the ADA. 👉“Fast food workers don’t owe anyone their smiles.” —@jessica.wildfire.writer wrote in her commentary. Fast food workers certainly don’t owe anyone their lives, considering the risk of getting #LongCovid. 👉The CA OSHA regulations state, “No employer shall prevent any employees from wearing a face covering, including a respirator, unless it would create a safety hazard.” 👉The CDC states, “People may choose to mask at any time. Layered prevention strategies — like staying up to date on vaccines and wearing masks — can help prevent severe illness and reduce the potential for strain on the healthcare system. Wear a mask with the best fit, protection, and comfort for you.” 👉HHS tweeted, “The more often you get C19, the higher your risk of complications.” 👉Masking protects you from respiratory viruses as well as pollutants & pollen." PLEASE CALL THE CUSTOMER HOTLINE [phone]) AND MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD THAT YOU DO NOT SUPPORT THIS POLICY AND WILL NOT PATRONIZE IN-N-OUT BURGER AS LONG AS THEY DO THIS. You don't need to be rude and keep in mind the customer service rep isn't the one responsible for putting this policy in place. ANTI-MASKERS, VIRUS-DENIERS, AND OTHER PLAGUE-RATS DO NOT INTERACT WITH THIS POST.

#masks #face masks #workers' rights #employee safety #in-N-out burger #wildfire smoke #covid-19 #coronavirus #workplace safety #employee rights #mlop #medical privacy #workers' rights violations

[entitledrichpeople]

#water #workplace safety #hazardous working condition #heat #heat stroke #workplace injury #death cw