Health and Safety
Here's a lot of information and how-to's - and more 'fill in the blanks' forms than you can shake a stick at...
Health and Safety Forms:
- Abatements - a multi purpose form to request an investigation of any health and safety problem found in an inspection and/or your observations. This form is more suited to a report from a coworker or a third party...
- Communicable Disease - Request a medical exam after interviewing a member of the public with a communicable disease.
- Identification of Local Health Service Needs - Request for location of Low cost/No Cost local medical providers...
- Lease - Easy to fill in request for the lease...
- Mold - Report mold or wet conditions in your office and request abatement -Easy to fill in...
- Temperature - Too hot or too cold, ask for inspection.
- Violence - Easy to fill in request to investigate public actions or threats...
- Referral of hazard to Council - If you are dissatisfied with management's actions on a report of hazard, you can request escalation to Council's H&S representative - This easy to fill in form refers the problem to the national level.
- Incident Report - Request a copy of an incident report.
- Imminent Danger - Use where a hazard presents an immediate and serious probability of loss of life or bodily harm.
- Serious Condition - Request an inspection be done within 3 days
- Smoking - Request to attend a stop smoking class...
Information:
How to file an OSHA complaint - It's best to file with a Local office - Don't use email if you want them to show up and investigate (they say so themselves) - Go here to find your closest office... - And here's the form... The OSHA site is a wealth of information.
Management Inspections
This guidance on the SSA-5510 was written when the inspections were joint inspections. While we no longer do the inspections, the information will help you determine whether Management did a good inspection. Note that the union still has the right to accompany management on "SSA-controlled safety inspections" and on "on health and safety inspections conducted by other governmental authorities." [Contract, Article 9, 1 or 3] - Here's the Request for Notice of an Inspection. (Contact your Local President concerning your Local's Official Time policies.)
Specific Data:
- Aisle and File Cabinet Clearances (5510 Page 6)...
- Handicapped Aisles and Fire Extinguisher Criteria (5510 page 7)...
CPR
What you need to know before you perform CPR - the Agency probably won't step in if you are sued...
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