[CPEO-BIF] Gulf Coast day laborers

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

OSHA/FEMA Failing To Protect Day-Laborers In The Gulf

Jordan Barab
Confined Space
December 5, 2005

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's effort in the New
Orleans area is failing to protect day laborers and others who are not
working for companies that are under FEMA contract, according to some
OSHA state plan officials who have been volunteering in the recovery
effort. Most of these workers are immigrants who speak limited English.

OSHA is operating under the Worker Safety and Health Support Annex,
under which OSHA personnel addresses "protection of worker safety and
health for all emergency responders and response organizations during
potential and actual Incidents of National Significance." OSHA personnel
is also expected to assist in "identification and characterization of
incident hazards, assessments and analyses of health risks and exposures
to responders, medical monitoring, and incident risk management."

For the entire article, see
http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2005/12/oshafema-failing-to-protect-day.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
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