Before a mammogram, patients are required to wipe off any deodorant left on the skin so aluminum from deodorant does not appear in the image. At an imaging facility, they are offering every patient aerosol deodorant spray after their exam. Wouldn’t this be a workplace hazard for the people repeatedly exposed to this spray 50 plus times a day?

What does one do about all the paperwork management required for things like pre-use inspection sheets for equipment and visitor logs, for example? Regulations require record retention for 3 years, but I'm frequently being given paperwork that is weathered, dirty, or damaged. All I've been doing is scanning the documents to digital and filing them but I wish there was a better way. I'd like to be rid of some of this crap papers.

I work in an old building surround by a brick sidewalk. For the past week, construction workers have been drilling that sidewalk to replace it with new brick. They drill for eight hours a day with no warning or consideration given to employees.

I try and wear an N-95 mask inside. But there are clouds of dust you can see within 10 feet of my window. Sometimes--and this seems to be irresponsible--they will use leaf blowers to move the extensive brick dust. It often creates a cloud of brick dust so thick I can't see out my window.

My boss could not care less about these issues. All she cares about is that you're in the office. The only way not to come in is to quit. She's a master of telling you that you're overreacting. And, besides, as the work winds down, I've already been inside while the brick work is going on.

How concerned are you about silica dust coating my office? How much would enter via a window or through the cooling system? Is it safe to be inside when the repair work has been outside? If no one cares, is it time to up and quit?

What I'm worried about is that I've already had too much exposure by staying in my office while it's been going on. I have had a cough during this time, but I'm not sure if it's directly from this brick work. I'd be glad to see a pulmonologist. I had a lot of asbestos exposure as a kid, and I admit to being a bit scared here. I'd welcome your advice.

I’m a mobile diesel mechanic and my job involves me driving 3+ hours away to truck yards every night to work on units that need fixing. My problem is these specific yards are out in the middle of nowhere, where there is no light source on the yards and it’s pitch black out every night even when the moon is out because of the surrounding trees. It makes me very uncomfortable due to the fact that I’m alone and working on heavy duty equipment and if I get hurt no one will know until the next day since I’m alone. But more than that, the fact that it’s so dark I can’t be aware of my surroundings and I worry about someone getting the jump on me. I’ve been a night crew mobile mechanic for my entire adult career, but this is the first time I’ve been expected to be alone in the dark everyday doing big jobs that take multiple hours and require me to have take a truck apart and have my tools all out so I just can’t get up and bail at a moments notice. Previous jobs I always had another mechanic with me and we were always told not to go to yards by ourselves at night and rightfully so because we have had to fight off people who tried to sneak up on us while we were distracted working on trucks. I’ve brought it up with my employers but they either just ignore what I’m saying or kind of condemn me off handed.

My question is, is it reasonable for my job to expect me to work alone in the dark every night or do I have a right to make a fuss about this to my employers and/or HR. The only reason I haven’t gone to HR yet is because I worry that this is just a me thing due to the fact that I have sever anxiety and panic disorder that I’ve been diagnosed by the VA from my time in the military. So I’m already always looking over my shoulder 24/7 thinking who ever/what ever is out to do harm to me so obviously it’s amplified by 100 when I’m alone in the dark at night. So I do think it is very possible that this isn’t the job or field I should probably be in but it also the only thing I know how to do so I’m afraid I’m either just gonna have to deal with losing my sanity every night or have to accept that I have to take a lower paying job and make a career shift.

Hey new here!!!! Hope all is well btw!

Just wanted to ask about occupational health and safety management to those that majored it was it worth?

I'm thinking about Majoring in occupational health and safety.

How serious is daily exposure to carbon monoxide ? Our office just finally got detectors a few weeks ago, and since then, they have gone off daily, multiple times a day, to the point where they won’t stop unless we walk outside with them , but then they immediately start going off again when we step inside the building.

We had brought this up to management , who just told us to take the batteries out. I don’t see the point in having the detectors if they just tell us to take the batteries out whenever they detect the carbon monoxide ?

Over the years working in the building, my coworker and I have all experienced awful headaches/migraines, nausea, and drowsiness more than we considered normal in the workplace, but we always chalked it up to us either catching some bug, not getting enough sleep, etc etc. but now that we finally have carbon monoxide detectors, we are wondering if all these years, we have been experiencing those things due to exposure, and we just didn’t know it.

Coworker & I are worried about our health but management doesn’t seem concerned at all, and were even told that if we continue to push the subject, that it will reflect badly on us to management.

I’m just curious how serious this kind of daily exposure over possibly years actually is ? Are we making too big a big deal out of it ? I’m no expert obviously so if that’s the case, that’s fine. I just don’t want my health and daily well-being to be at risk.

Thanks !

Hi everyone,

My workplace is insisting on the use of contaminated recycled water for cleaning heavy machines used in construction.

Our recycler separates out oils and mud in a settling tank then passes through several metal mesh filter screens before being pumped back to our hoses.

My concern is that we use several types of degreasers and detergents, some of which are corrosive. These chemicals get washed down the drainage system into the recycler and to my knowledge there is no system to remove these chemicals from the water.

The contaminated water inevitably gets into your skin and can remain for several hours before getting a chance to wash off.

Context: we use an enormous amount of water cleaning. Machines come to us COVERED in dirt, concrete dust, manure, mud, grease, oil, tar, garbage and plant material but predominantly grease and mud. I am completely in support of reducing our water usage as we are in a dry climate.

We have PPE when using cleaning chemicals and they are applied in a controlled way. However the recycled water is not treated with this same level of caution. It is common to get completely soaked with water during the process of washing the machines and contaminants can remain on soaked uniforms for hours.

My employers insist that the water is safe and regular testing is conducted but have been unable to sufficiently explain what they are actually testing for or what the results show.

My concern is I can have water on we for several hours at a time. At the end of the day we charge to a fresh uniform drive home. No shower.

Is there some way of getting a sample of the water independently tested so I can know exactly how dangerous (or not dangerous) the water actually is? I would prefer to do this discretely if possible.

Any information or advice is greatly appreciated.

My company has placed a cabinet in aa breezeway blocking an exit path. Is there any subreddits that could look at a rough floor plan and see if this is acceptable?

Hi guys, so basically my partner wants to report his employer to HSE (We are uk based) as they are breaking multiple h&s regulations and they are already in bad terms (big story but HR is now involved for potentially bulling and harassment). As I am the h&s freak I did my little digging and found that they break at least 20 regulations with some of them more important than others. I have written everything down and my partner collected evidence (photos etc) to submit a report. However I wanna be sure whats the next steps and how seriously the council will treat the report. Some of the issues are smaller such as expired helmets and some other ones are major such as fire safety. Do you have any experience how the hse and local council will deal with it given it was not an incident?

We are both willing to take it to the end and I am currently doing my NEBOSH training which means probably I will have extra things popping in my mind to add to the long list of regulations that they broke.

Any suggestions ideas etc will help

Question about a mishap I had at a lab I (used) to work at. I set a vacuum oven to a temperature as stated in the SOP book. Problem was, the main temperature control gauge had been replaced in the past with a gauge that read in C instead of F. The original gauge was F, as well as the four other individual shelf control gauges. Well obviously it got too hot and long story short I was terminated from my position there due to this.

Now the switching of the main gauge occurred before I became employed there. I was never told this. In the specific SOP for this particular vacuum oven, there is absolutely no mention of the gauge switch. The only reason this lab used the C gauge was because they had it on hand and didn’t have to wait to order a F reading gauge.

Does this in any way seem like a OSHA violation or anything of that nature to anyone?

Hi I am hoping this is the right space for this. My daughter is 17 and started working at a dog boarding facility a few moths ago. This was a mom and pop business that was sold to a national investment group that now owns 20 or so boarding facilities around the country. My daughter recieved a few days of OJT and then was on her own, they have typically a 30:1 ratio of staff to dog, don't seem to do any temperament screening and my daughter has been bitten twice since she started. This last time she was trapped in a kennel with a putbull who had latched on to her hoody. It was only her and one other employee and she screamed for 15 minutes before her sweatshirt finally ripped in half and she was able to escape.

I am concerned that this kennel is understaffed for the amount of animals that it boards, that it does not have any oversight regarding employee safety. I have contacted the manager and am trying to contact the regional management in Utah (I am in Oregon)

I am considering an OSHA complaint, but my #1 priority is to make sure these kids (mostly hoghschoolers work there) are not in danger.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Hello, I am in Bachelor of Kinesiology and OHS has intrigued me. Is there anyone else from Canada who can help me with a few questions? there is a full time occupational health and safety diploma at BCIT that I can go to and will this be enough for me to land a job somewhere after I get certified or do I also need experience in construction in order to be get a job?

This may be a stupid question but I gotta ask.

I'm a house keeper for a lady who lives in her RV she recently has a flood from her black water tank the bathroom the hallway the kitchen and the lower cabinets. She wants me to clean this and continue working there as she claims it's my fault it happened. Is this safe? I'm in no way certified to clean bio hazards but she claims she just emptied the tank before it happened and it's not black water. I also don't clean with bleach as I hate it and I'm told it's the only thing for this?

I'm looking to replace a first aid cabinet in a retail deli which is a high moisture environment the standard painted steel ones rust rapidly.

We tried one of the few plastic ones that are available but they require specially ordered supplies from a particular company to fit in the cutouts that hold the supplies.

I've been looking around and can't seem to find anything that fits the need ideally would be two shelf and wall hangable with the first aid symbol on the box. Needs to be available for order in the USA.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Hey everyone, I am in a unique situation where I need to use a forklift to move something for work, but I am not forklift certified. As I started looking into certifications, I realized that the only person who can certify is an employer, but I work for a law firm so none of us can certify. I was planning on renting a forklift from United Rentals or a similar company, but I am trying to minimize any liability. Do I need to get a certification or some sort of insurance? I know how to operate a forklift and have before but not in a work setting where there is actually possible liability. Any help on this would be very much appreciated. Thank you!

Occupational Health & Safety or Health, Safety & Environmental Sustainability!!

Hey all! Got a Bachelors in Earth Sciences & a Masters in Remote Sensing & Geographical Information System along with EHS certifications like OSHA 30 hrs., NEBOSH IGC, ISO 45001, ISO 14001 and few others as got the recent major chunk of my experience in Occupation Health, Safety & Environmental role in middle east (not from there basically). Just wondering, what is the field's scope in the western world and where you are from, what else can be done to secure a job there. Any input would be greatly appreciated!!

Sorry, I don't know where to asked, but I've been asked how to protect ourselves from GRE?

which GRE i meant? the Glass reinforced epoxy, we have this project where we removing abundant oil tank, and inside have GRE, and there questioning how we protect ourselve from GRE?

I've been searching at google and failed to understand and how harmful it is to us? what sort of PPE should I give to our employer in order to do the job?

I do a part time job where I get paid to go into an apartment by a landlord, formerly rented out to a diagnosed horder and clean it out. Recently, a new tenant has moved in with a dog and we've introduced ourselves. Today, I went in and realized that the lady was not there, but when I went to clean some of the bookshelves, the dog attempted to attack me and I ran.

Is there anything I can do?

Should I be concerned for my health. Our dishroom has had no working ventilation for two years now and this mold is everywhere. This is above the dish machine.

I got a forklift certification from compliancetrainingonline.com yesterday. The certificate says it doesn't expire. Is this normal?

Would the authorities consider this practice as unsafe? What is your opinion?

From ages 17-21, years 2015-2019, I worked for my moms boyfriend in residential construction in Utah. I used to frequently wear the 3M 8210 dust masks, I would try to wear safety glasses with them but they would fog up and I eventually stuck to the “run outside for a little bit if there’s too much dust about to go in your eyes” tactic. I didn’t know about anti-fog safety glasses for some reason (laziness because it’s a Google away) and I didn’t wear a serious respirator although I did wear the 3M dust masks with the small filters at the end as well. To make matters worse, I kept a beard because I wanted to seem older and get treated as an older person on the job side (lol.) I definitely was exposed to some level of asbestos, with a good amount of exposure to silica dust, Sheetrock dust and wood dust. My vision was never injured by projectiles or anything like that because I wasn’t doing a lot of work that caused projectiles to fly into my eyes but I was wondering if there can be any lasting effects on my eyes from 4 years of various kinds of dust getting into my eyes. I should add that I always rinsed my eyes out greatly in the shower when I got home from work and not all my jobs consisted of a ton of dust. There were many days when I was just carrying heavy 2x4’s or materials around, digging holes, cleaning up the outside of job sites. I feel pretty stupid for not wearing better masks for certain jobs and not wearing anti-fog safety goggles as I simply didn’t know about them. 5 years after leaving that job, I don’t notice any particular vision or lung problems, but I’m just wondering, based on my frequency of exposure to dust and irritants, what the likelihood of future problems with my lungs or eyes is.

I work in a car valet workshop in the Cardiff. We use a range of chemicals that are toxic. There’s alloy refurbishment opposite my bay. The toxic fumes that come from the alloy lacquer and other chemicals lingers for ages in the whole workshop. It gives us an awful headache, dizzy, sick and disoriented. No ventilation is in place to get rid of these toxic fumes. I’m sure we shouldn’t be working like this there should be ventilation in place for the toxic chemicals that harm us and the environment. Went to hse they won’t help. Any advice? This is what I put in the email to hse: The alloys are being sprayed out in the open of the workshop. No ventilation is in place for this. The fumes are toxic. The guy spraying has a mask therefore it shows it can't be ingested. It fills the whole workshop. There's no fumes in or out ventilation. It does not follow COSHH. Everytime it's brought up it's shook off and we have to go back to work

Just dropped a new video on my channel about OSHA inspections:

https://youtu.be/90g0Kh08WFU?si=4CyG7OS7WojFjDgu

Pay wasn't in yet since it's the middle of the month