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Safety Wars Live 6-26-2024 Lead in Residential Properties, West Point, Supreme Court Rulings
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[BLANK_AUDIO] >> And from the border of Liberty of Prosperity of the Highway to North, this is Safety Wars. For Monday, January, January, where did that come from? June 24th, 2024. How's everybody doing? I hope you had a great and productive weekend like I had, a lot going on out there. Trying to refine my rhythm here, it's kind of hard for all that's going on. I know some of the other live broadcasters have had issues going on live. There's a lot of stuff going on out there. If you're interested in working with us, give us a call at 845-275. I'm sorry, 845-269-5772 or Safety Wars. Yeah, yeah, we've got a lot of training classes coming up, some pretty significant stuff we're working on. And I tell you what, we've got a lot of stuff to talk about today. My wife is like, well, you know, you really want to go on today. I said, no, I got to go on today. Do people mean too much to be down there? Especially, a lot of people are looking for [MUSIC] Calm out there and I've been told I'm very calm. I'm really the safety force of calming. [MUSIC] I don't know, we'll find out. [MUSIC] Now, we're going to have an exclusive commentary here. [MUSIC] So I come across, no, one of my favorite websites is StudyFides.org. And I see something that came across here that I've been talking about for probably around 25 years. And for complete disclosure, I used to be a lead-based paint, a lead risk assessor. For the state of New Jersey, I was state licensed, Leven Spectorisk Assessor. The first, I know what I worked for, and Virigenics, and the great, late, great Jeff Olcott. I became the lead guy, the in-house lead guy. This is in the mid-90s. And I got thrown on a lot of lead cleanups. Some of them were in residential housing. One of the biggest ones, I took them several years, was for 40 family housing in West Point. That was the name of the project. I think it ran from 94 to 97. Was 40 family units that were led, was identified inside the home. And to just say, it was my first experience with an organization, that being the Army Corps of Engineers, where we'll just say things could have been managed a hell of a lot better. I will leave it at that. I've commented by on this before. But anyway, about two, maybe three years ago, I took my family to a Rockland Volders game. That's the local minor league team here in town. No, there's one town over in Pomona, New York. Not Pomona, New Jersey, or Pomona, California, Pomona, New York. And they had a military personnel there that day. And I started talking to the family that sat next to me. And they said, well, what do you do, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I worked at the West Point about 25 years ago, blah, blah, blah. I'm familiar. Yeah, yeah. We lived such and such a place. They said, well, you had this big thing with lead. I said, do you know anything about lead? I said, well, I know about lead. So when you're dealing with an organization like West Point, there couldn't be any other major government organization that has a reputation. They don't like that reputation tarnished. And one of the things was they decided that they were, and the powers that be decided, apparently, that they were going to follow their specifications on lead, which they wrote, where someone in their organization wrote. And they were inadequate. The thing was that they were going to, my opinion, based on my experience there, they were trying to blame other people for lead removal. So we were contracted to remove lead removal on the site. I was the supervisor for the lead removal, doing all of the sampling. This is on all the old housing units there, called 40 Family Housing. It was on Westmore Loop and did a loop that area. If you're familiar with West Point, that neighborhood over by the PX, what was used to be the PX, the two of the four of the units are not there anymore. But that, for whatever reason, last time it was at West Point, I drove through there just to show my kids where I worked. And what we ended up doing was, I think that they were planning on us not doing things properly, and then sticking us with the lead issues there. That's what it looked like. I don't know. I can't judge. Now, back then, I would have said, "Well, definitely that's what they were doing." But now, 30 years later, you're like, "Well, human beings are human beings. We know about human and organizational performance." But anyway, what happened was, my boss said, "Jimmy, this is what you're going to do. You're going to go, and you're going to take soil samples from around all of the housing units, and you're going to take double the minimum level that you need, the minimum amount that you need for analysis. What you're going to do is, you're going to send those out to the laboratory and tell them to hold them. I will pay rent and everything to the laboratory to hold them for a couple of years until the job is done, and this is what I always recommend people do when they're dealing with lead removal on a site. What's going to happen is, they're going to say that we put the lead there because of improper removal. That's how we handled it, and lo and behold, several years later, when the job was over with what ended up happening. Nothing official, but I said, "Well, we can send everything out for analysis. They've been in the laboratory for three years, four years. Why don't we run those?" Then, all of a sudden, everything got dropped because they know that it would have been there prior. The question is this. This is the abstract from the article that I'm reading here off of Study Finds. It referenced an article in GeoHealth. It was a policy paper, one in four U.S. households likely to exceed new soil-led guidance levels by Gabriel M. Folepe, the Folepe, or Folepe, sounds like, et al, and then several authors on here. The website was published on the 18th of June, that's last week, d-o-i.org/10.1029/2024GH001045. I have a link to it in the description of the program. Here we have lead exposure as flighted communities across the United States and the globe with much and this is the abstract, much of the burn resting on lower income communities and communities of color. We know that from Flint, Michigan, situation, and other situations throughout the Jacksonville, Mississippi, and some of the other areas of the country, and there's lawsuits and criminal proceedings and everything else associated with that. On the 17th of January 2024, the U.S. EPA lowered the recommended screening level of lead in residential soils from 400 to 200 parts per million. I believe we covered that on our show. Our analysis of tens of thousands of citizen science collected soil samples from cities and communities around the U.S. indicates that nearly one quarter of households may contain soil lead and exceed the new screening level. Extravelling across the nation that equates to nearly 30 million households needing to mitigate potential soil lead hazards and a total cost of 290 billion to 1.2 trillion. Reason why they give that number is that they don't know how deep it goes and the extent if you're going to do a lead remediation at a house, differing state laws, local laws, disposal fees, you know, depths of soil, things of that nature. We do not think this type of mitigation is feasible at the massive scale required and we have instead focused on a war immediate for our cheaper strategy, capping current soils to clean soils and a war mulch. Now that's what the article mentions. There are some other things that you have to do other than that, all right? Capping is a good way, a cheaper strategy, war immediate, easily done, right? But then you have to have like a use restriction there, which is going to be kind of hard to enforce. Also what people try to do is that they put not nice plants over the top of it. So you're not going to put your vegetable garden over the top of this, especially something like a tomato plant that's going to bioaccumulate lead there. And I know that there are some ways of removing lead from the soil and treating the soil, no, just treating the soil with biologic type things. Now, do the do, okay, there are so the other thing, the not nice things you put on there, sticker bushes, this is one of them, and a fraction of the colossal labor disrupted soil. Okay, great. But then that has to be monitored and everything else over the years and indeed restrictions and things of that nation. Now, the question is this, all right, and you can go look this up, and you know what, you can look up the hazards of lead, which are many with that, no, IQ impacts, children are at high risk, and you know, this is time immemorial. You know what all this does here, especially for a health and safety professional. Now, what is, how does the lead get there, several ways? Back in the 1970s, we had lead in gasoline, and in New Jersey at least, up until 1988, I remember this, the summer of 1988, because I graduated high school that year. They had, and I had a truck that needed lead gasoline, my first vehicle needed lead gasoline. And what they ended up, what ended up happening was they got rid of lead in the gasoline then, and a lot of emissions from cars, especially in the inner cities, where people are sitting there for traffic, for example, a lot of this stuff would accumulate on in the soil, right? And in the inner city, you have, have highways going through residential neighborhoods, things of that nature, and also a lot of the areas alongside highways also had accumulations of lead. For example, the New Jersey turnpike. For years, if you're going to work on the New Jersey turnpike, you would have to go, and you would have to go and, no, do a little bit of testing, maybe a little bit of remediation. That all had to come into effect there, all had to come in there. But also, that was a different type of lead, tetraethyl lead, right? With that. Now, around houses, where did that come from? That came from before, I believe it was 1980, '78, '80, something like that. The lead was in interior paint. Lead will continue to be in X in paint for a long time after that, because you had old stock and some exterior paints, might have still had it. People bringing home paint from work. I know a highway paint often had lead in it, because it was good caulking with that, and it was better paint as far as protecting surfaces, and there's a whole litany of arguments for it. But what happens is, it's in your house, and paint chips. People do not maintain their paint, especially if you're in section 8 housing, or sometimes if a government assists in housing, paint chips will fall off the walls onto the ground, and then they little kids running around, right, and they're most concerned between the ages of six months, six years, because those are usually the ages where kids are on the floor, and they're putting things in their mouth, right, there's a lot of exploring, hand-to-mouth contact, and children getting lead poisoning and impacting the room for the rest of their life. I could go on for a long time, and I do have a lead, 1926-62 video, which I'll probably put in the comments here, explaining lead and everything, and we've got it's available for purchase here. But anyway, how do they get on the outside? They're mentioning outside, not so much the inside. So you had houses that were painted with a paint. So water gets on the paint from the rain, and from the weather, and paint chips fall down, and it also washes down because exterior paint often clocks, meaning when the painted surface, you clean it, and it looks like new, right, and that sort of accumulates in its soil. Now, it's because a runoff that mobilizes lead in the soil, on the surface soil, and often it ends up, where do children play back in the day, outside? They're playing outside and contaminated soil, now they have an issue with that. So what this guy did, what these folks did, was they solicited soil samples. Now, what we end up having to do here with all of this stuff, what do we do about it? No, laws in all of the states require disclosure of potential lead-based fain hazards. If it's commercial property, you may have to have a audit done of the property, phase one or phase two audit, where they go and they identify their environmental problems. This may be included in there, and they end up in a case-by-case basis. So I don't know what to tell you here with this. Notice that if you have any concerns, I absolutely get your soil tested with this. And get a qualified contractor, if your state has a licensing program, that's a good place to start with licensed people with this. Now, something else I want to point out to you, unlike biological cleanups, like mold and everything, is a little bit harder to fake these samples of a semi-legendemic company. Biological samples will be, I can tell stories on that, but that's not for this show. So that's what I wanted to talk about was lead in there, and this article, I thought it very interesting. Now this is from May 2nd, the Vinerant Harris administration announces $3 billion for lead by replacing to advance safe drinking water as part of investing in America. So again, the administration is funding a lot of stuff. This is from to remove lead drinking from the drinking water supply. So now that is an issue. We're going to go to a commercial break, and we will come back to you. In a world where danger lurks in every corner, one man stands as a beacon of hope. Jim Pollsall, a veteran safety expert with over three decades of experience, now bringing his knowledge to you with safety wars. Engaging, informative, and always relevant, that's safety wars. Join the safety revolution with safety wars, available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, YouTube, and wherever you get your podcasts and videos. Now, hold on, hold on, you were listening to safety wars, tomorrow's safety today. Now over the weekend, the drug report and several other websites started talking about World War Three. Here's just some of the things that they're from, some legitimate news outlets, mainstream here. Here we have from Newsweek, MAGA slams Ukraine strike on Crimea, World War Three in overdrive. Here we have the express, alert to Korea's sentence, chilling new World War Three warning to US as Ukraine tensions explode, the UK mirror, World War Three fears, hot spots, I could spark nuclear Armageddon, World War Three coming soon, and this is from National Interest. Putin makes a nuclear war threat over Ukraine, and it goes on and on and on, some of the, no, a lot of it from conspiracy theory type things coming up, but some of them from legitimate mainstream news outlets. Now, here's my question for you. What are you going to do about it? What are you, the listener, you, the viewer, and then I'm pointing it to you right here. Hello, hello, what are you going to do about it? I came out with a book several years ago on, as, you know, I'm, I keep on wanting to reissue about I have some other stuff I want to reissue, nuclear terrorism. I'm going to tell you this, there are people out there today that think that you could survive a nuclear war. Now as I pointed out in the book that I wrote, there is no telling how big a nuclear war is going to be nuclear exchange is going to be. There is no telling what your situation may necessarily be. Right here, I'm surrounded by several targets, and it's not Jimmy saying this. This is what the old FEMA maps are and just common sense, you know, FEMA, federal emergency management agency did have maps that came out towards the end of the cold war. I don't believe that they've been impacted. I'm sorry, updated since 1990. There was another book that came out called strategic relocation. Hold on, let me get the author. Uh, strategic relocation, uh, visorals, scosin, all right, still available on Amazon. I have a copy of the original book. One of the things that I laugh about, it's now in its fourth edition, one of the things I laugh about was, and I used to bust my wife, wife's chops a little bit, was when we first got married, I moved into her condominium, and it said, do not be closer to New York City than Route 287 in White Plains. Well, where did we live? Right next to Route 287 in White Plains, I said, "Huh, we got to move like a quarter mile off the road here." So I would bust your chops a little bit. But we're surrounded here, where I live in Clerksstown, New York, New City, New York, by several targets here, secondary targets. Well obviously the primary would be like New York City, right, that's a, you can see it from some of the roofs in town, and you can see it from South Mountain, which is on the other side of town here. You can see New York City, and probably the initial of last from something there would not reach us. We had 30 miles away, I think, 25 miles away. However, what else do we have here? Well we used to have Indian Point, which was a little bit closer to the other side of the Hudson River, and there was one house where we first got married we were looking at, and we said, "Man, this house is cheap and it's big, but it's got to be some catch to it." So we went into the house, and if you wanted to get a perfect picture of, we went into the open house. We got a perfect postcard picture of the Indian Point and the nuclear reactors. That was from that kitchen window. I mean you could have made a fortune on one of the shutters stock, I think it is, or one of those with selling pictures of Indian Point, but that's one. Second one was we had the Kensico Dam, right on the other side of the river, again major dam, not too far away, from this side of the river, what do we have? We have West Point, 20 minutes north from here. We have pharmaceutical plant Pfizer, right on the other side of the county here. We have a huge industrial park with some aerospace companies in it. Those are the big ones around here. Even if you go out to, let's say Sussex County, New Jersey, you have a lot of vaccination plants over in Swiftwater, Pennsylvania, and the Poconos, so you wouldn't be safe. There are some other facilities there that are high, pick a tinny arsenal, comes to mind, and a couple of other facilities there that would be that. So again, what's the point here? That's my point where am I going, sounds like you're rambling, Jim, what, you need to identify what's the target if you're near a target, number one, number two, you have to prepare for yourself, that's what the whole point of my book was. You cannot personally set United States policy or reaction, can't do it. What can you do? What am I going to do to protect myself and my family, myself, my family, my neighborhood, my community? What can you do? That's how you have to approach this. What can you do? How could you prepare? And then move out, and people will have commented, well, this sounds like a team puzzle, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, it is a little bit, but if you're last name is Smith, make it Team Smith. Because you have to be responsible for yourself and your family and what you can impact. You can have the biggest impact in your family and in your community, not at the national level. Here I have an audience. I can impact a little bit, just a little bit and here on safety FM a little bit more. But what are you going to do? What FEMA tells you to do, has said multiple times, unless they've updated things in the last couple of years, is that you have to be prepared for up to 96 hours on your own. And the worst case scenario that FEMA, Federal Emergency Management Agency has prepped for is a three kiloton, which was about half the size of the Hiroshima Nagasaki atomic explosions, three 10 kiloton explosions in the United States in one day. Right? That's where we're equipped to deal with worst case scenario. You have hundreds of bombs going on or dozens of these big theater, I guess is what they call nuclear weapons going off and the megaton range, right, or in the hundred kiloton range, there's not a whole hell of a lot the government's going to do to save you. Just the way it is, folks, they're going to be on overload. But again, you don't know what situation you're going to be in. And that's what my second message for today is, is you need to go and prepare for yourself, your family and everything else, what you're going to do and how to prepare. If you can get an old copy of my book, that's good thinking about republishing it. But there are other references out there. But the thing is, how long does it take for you to prepare for this stuff? Minimum two weeks, minimum. And that's working a 40 hour week to get this done. All right, and now that's about how long it takes to prep. And you think that as, no, like the movie The Day After from the 1980s with Jason Robards among other actors there, Steve Gutenberg, I think was in that movie. No, they think, well, no, everyone's prepared after a couple of days, no, yeah, no, not really. It takes a long time for prepare. For safety wards, it's a gym puzzle. We're going to go to our second commercial break. Have you listened or watched the safety warship? It does stream live on the radio and on the streamer eemers that we have. So if you have not taken a listen to gymposal and what the hell he's doing every evening with safety wars, I would strongly encourage you to take a view or take a listen, whichever option is available for you, and take a listen to what the hell he has to go and go on. It's definitely will take some deep dives and some information that you might be interested in. All right, we're going to start a little section here because it's, no, it does matter. We talk about demographics here a lot, I tell you what, I'm going to take a break for a second here, I'll be right back. Let me put on some commercials here, hold on. Is your safety training old, stale and hacky, is your safety trainer still preaching a warped version of behavior based safety? How about safety training that actually addresses your hazards and your workplaces and it's not standardized baloney from 25 years ago. Contact the safety words team at safetywords.com or call gymposal at 845-269-5772. Remember, if you're receiving this message, you are the solution to unsafe workplaces. In the professional safety community, communication and planning are just a few keys to your program success. The question many practitioners have is where do I start? Dr. J. Allen, the creator of the safety FM platform and host of the rated R safety show, has built a global foundation to help you along the way. 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Supreme Court rules against California woman whose husband was the 9th entry into the US, so we're ending the term for the Supreme Court and they've issued a whole flurry of cases and decisions, so this is from last Friday's Supreme Court on Friday ruled against a California woman who sent her rights to her violated after federal officials refused to allow her husband to the country, in part because the way his tattoos were interpreted and essentially they believe he was a gang member with that, so this is from Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who reading from the bench, the majority opinion, while Congress has made it easier for spouses to immigrate, it never made a spousal immigration matter of right. While a citizen certainly has a fundamental right to marriage, Barrett said, it is a fallacy to leave from that premise to the conclusion that the United States citizens have a fundamental right that can limit how Congress exercises the nation's sovereign power to admit or exclude foreigners, and the dissent Justice Sonia Sotomayor sent denying citizens the right to seek specific reasons about why their spouses are denied entry, gravely undervalues right to marriage and immigration context. Now, all that separation of powers is one of the things here with this, you know, basically if Congress, if you want a different outcome, Congress is going to change the law. Our next Supreme Court case, Supreme Court rejects a settlement in water district between New Mexico and Texas. The Supreme Court, this is on Friday, rejected a settlement between western states over the management of one of North America's longest rivers, and a 5-4 decision to address this rule that the water sharing deal between Texas and New Mexico can't go through because the federal government still has concerns about New Mexico water use on the Rio Grande, which Colorado also draws from. Even knowledge of those acknowledge those interests and having allowed the United States to intervene to assert them, we cannot allow Texas and New Mexico to leave the United States up the river without a paddle said Justice Contangi, around Jackson, I believe that's a no disrespect, I don't believe that's how you pronounce the name, but the way I pronounce it, right, reading the majority opinion, which crossed ideological lines as it was joined by justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Brett Kamal, and John Roberts, so they had a water sharing deal, they rejected it. So, again, water major situation out west with everything. Okay, World War III, I mean, you got all, I have all these stories on World Potential World War III. Again, this is madness, what some of our world leaders are saying about this, just absolute madness. Here we have NASA verdicts, and asteroid has a 72% chance of hitting earth and years when. And a hypothetical scenario posed to group, posed to group a nearly 100 government representatives, NASA found that they're planning to combat the asteroid hurtling towards Earth at several high level gaps. They say space officials have limited readiness to quickly implement needed space missions, methods to keep the public informed on the impending disaster are not fully developed. So, participants from federal agencies going on. So, this was a meeting, an exercise on hypothetical astro, NASA has found a hypothetical exercise that an asteroid has a 72% chance of hitting earth and may happen sooner and later. Okay, well, when? In their hypothetical scenario, an asteroid will collide with the earth in 2038, 14 years from now that collision would have a 47% chance affecting more than a thousand for people and an 8% chance of affecting more than one million. So, basically, this is all hypothetical, don't get upset. We all know that they're not prepared. I mean, what, what, what, somebody, I tell you, we have people who listen to this show here because I say things here that all of a sudden a couple months later end up in the news. Like we broke the story on the on the fraudulent COVID vaccination cards. That was us, us and Jay Allen, three months before everybody else. Some of the other things with batteries, the lithium ion batteries, if you saw the big fire in Seoul, South Korea today, it's incredible on the news, the lithium, lithium battery factory. And now we've, we're ahead of things, especially with these news releases, because nobody else reads them. But we were ahead a long time ago on government preparation for disasters. We mentioned the book before that I wrote, but also starting with the anthrax cleanups. And even before then, there were indications on the environmental cleanup. So again, this all goes down to this. They're not prepared to do this. Well, COVID right was the worst example of not being prepared for a pandemic that they had been predicting since 9/11. They meaning the government, FEMA, centers centers for disease control. So what it comes down to is this, they you need to be prepared yourself. And again, I don't know what you're going to be able to do. You get an asteroid strike. I mean, it did kill the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, according to many scientists. And this is now that, well, what are you going to do with this? Now, what are you going to do? What are you going to prepare? And that's the lesson for the story. And as I had asked during the question and answer period at the Cape Canaveral, when they had an astronaut up there, his name, it was a Polish name. Right. It was a medical doctor was on the medical was a medical doctor when John Glenn returned to space. He had said, I had asked him, well, what can we do to help support the mission of NASA? And he said, it's funding and he got to talk to your congressman or congresswoman. So okay, well, that's good for us to know that. Now we're going to go right now. I'm going to throw on another commercial break here. It's Mondays or a hop message for Monday. This is safety wars broadcasting to our brothers and sisters in the occupied territory of behavior based safety. Get out your secret decoder ring. Here is your nightly message. Human error is normal. Human error is normal. So we're going to do some press releases here from the EPA and the Department of Labor. And here. And this is from the EPA. All right. EPA publishes is 2024 to 2027 climate adaptation plan. Today, June 20th, this was from last week, the US EPA releases climate adoption plan, which describes the agency actions to address the impacts of climate change and the work of climate resilient nation. This is one of the things, pardon me, that I actually do agree with. Now climate change is happening, always has happened, will continue to happen. But what we need to do is focus, my opinion, focus on what we're going to do, how we're going to adapt to it. Mitigation of it to be a good issue. A lot of problems with the science behind it and the policy behind it, which we have covered on this program in February of 2023 and March of 2023, with people from the other side of the argument here. Now, what are they going to do? Building facility resilience, good, good choice, fostering a climate ready workforce, education and training, right? More information does not make us stupider, right? We're better off on more information. Developing climate resilient supply chains, integrating climate resilience into external funding operations, external funding opportunities, right? So, EPA has included an assessment of climate risk as part of its overall supply chain risk management. Again, we know about supply chain problems. We've been through the pandemic, folks, applying climate data and tools to decision making. EPA is equipping communities, the recipients of financial resources with all the tools. Data information, technical support, they need to assess their climate risks and develop climate resilient solutions. Okay. Integrate climate adaptation in the rulemaking process. Another good thing with that. Again, I realize that there's some debate on the impacts of that. I get it. But let's, I think this is more of a, this is a better approach than on the other end. This is something that we could do that has measurable results, but theories where we're going to spend trillions of dollars and very little impact to anything, and that's the best scenario here. Okay. Well, we're going to do this. I mean, we're going to do this type of thing. I mean, sea levels have been rising. We know that. We know that over the last since the end of the last ice age, sea levels have been rising, right where I'm sitting right here, right here in Clark, San New York, we had over a mile thick glacier. We know that. This is a scientific fact. We know that Southern New Jersey and a lot of these other coastal areas, they had rising and declining sea levels. We understand that because we have sand and clay and the sedimentology of the South Jersey and most of New Jersey. I mean, where I grew up in Woodbridge, and I'm sorry, I don't have pictures of this from when I was growing up, but we had in Woodbridge, we had where the Woodbridge Center Mall is, that was all clay pits. Now, we know we had that. So where are we going to go from here? And EPA recommends that people in the Great Lakes region prepare now to avoid potential exposure this summer to wildfire smoke. Maybe I need to redo the program for last year repost it where we talked about this stuff. US EPA is encouraging residents in Great Lakes region to be prepared. Again, what's the theme? Be prepared for wildfire smoke this summer. EPA advises everyone to stay informed about local air quality and pump plans and plates reduce their exposure to wildfire smoke and protect their health. Although big wildfires may be hundreds, if not thousands and miles away, recent years have taught us that we should be ready. So what are they ready for smoke? Summer wildfires in the United States and Canada are becoming bigger and more frequent last summer, Canada experience a record number of wildfires. Yeah, I remember that. If you wanted to experience how the 1970s were before the Clean Air Act, that probably was a very good thing. So here is the following steps. If you don't have an air conditioner and it's too warm to stay indoors when closed windows seek shelter with friends, relatives, or at a local public building with air conditioning such as a movie theater, mall, library, or clean air shelter. He was supply of N94F or P100 masks to wear. Now let me point out something. If you are an employer and you're handing your employees N95 or P100 rust raiders, they have to be trained and how to wear them. And they need to sign off on Appendix D of the respiratory protection standard in 1910 134 29 CFR 1910 134. Consider buying a portable air cleaner or make a do it yourself air cleaner. Learn how to adjust your HVAC system. Replace filters according to manufacturers recommendations in those HVAC systems. And ensure children, older adults, pregnant people, formerly known as women. I've said that. And people with asthma or other lung or heart conditions have at least five days worth of medication and food on hand to avoid going outside. People with asthma or other lung or heart conditions may consider developing a medical action plan in consultation with a health care provider along with an evacuation plan if heavy smoke persists for days, for several days. And EVA has several, has several resources on this whole thing. Okay, we're just racing through here. This is from my neighborhood here. United States announced the settlement with Westchester County drinking water provider and three municipalities revilating the safe drinking water act. The EPA in June, today, June 24, that is today. The EPA along with the Department of Justice and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced a settlement with the Westchester joint works, Water Works, the town and village of Harrison, the village of the Marinec and the town of Marinec collectively known, collectively the defendants. Her violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act in 2019 due to the presence of contaminants that are known to threaten public health and the public water system in excess on the level set by the EPA. And there after they violated an EPA administrative order, always a bad thing. Bad idea. Requiring the construction of water filtration plant by specified deadlines. Hold on one second. Allergies are killing me here. So they ordered, I mean, it's always a bad idea to violate the Safe Drinking Water Act. Obviously, it's a real bad idea. When the government tells you to do something and puts you under consent order, I think you should probably obey it. So they're building a drinking water filtration plant that will ensure it's safe drinking water here for 220,000 Westchester County residents. So what did they exceed? Five regulated haloacetic acids, known as HAA5. Those are byproducts from disinfectants. And they have more than the association of latter cancer and a suggested association with colon and rectal cancers. Additionally, exposure to chlorinated drinking water or disinfection by products may cause adverse developmental and reproductive effects. And there's a fine associated with this. Now, let's be fair because you get a lot of people out there screaming in the out, you know, chlorinated water. I remember this fact when I even I was in school, chlorinated water, my opinion, Jimmy's opinion, dear, right? I don't think that there's no, the chlorinated water ranks right up there with the creation of fire. More lives have been saved because of chlorinated water than anything out there. So just the way it is. So I tell you what, we're probably not going to be on the air tomorrow, but we're going to throw hop message to here. And I'm going to set up where we have a new segment here we're going to try to do is because we're going to try to release it as a real or something on social media, the safety message for the following day. So if so today's Monday, June 24th, now we're going to talk about the June 25th, 2024 safety meeting here. And this is what we got safety message. And this is gymposal with safety words with your safety message. For Tuesday, June 25th, 2024, safety wars is screening now. So ladder safety, ladders are common tools and many workplaces and at home, but improper use can lead to serious injuries. Here are some essential tips for ensure ladder safety. Choose the right ladder. Select a ladder that is appropriate for the job. Ensure it is tall enough so you don't have to stand on the top run as for an A-frame or a step ladder. Check the weight capacity. Make sure it can support your weight plus any tools. Inspect it before using. And again, if you're a fall protection competent person, this is usually your responsibility to have the ladders and an inspection program. And if you are a user of it, you're for use inspection. For using a ladder, inspect it for any damage, such as cracks, bends, or missing parts. Ensure the runs are clean and free of all oil and grease and rent slips. Set it up properly. Right? So for every 4 foot up, it has to come one foot out. And if it's a extension ladder, right, other than a step ladder, needs to be secured. Right? Makes sense? Needs to be secured with that. And in the top run, you gotta go three runs above your surface that you're going to, because you're not supposed to work off an extension ladder. And you may have full, if you do, you may have full protection requirements. With that. And climb safely. Always face the ladder and remain and maintain three points of contact. Two hands of one foot or two feet in one hand while climbing. Do not overreach. Move the ladder as the end of your void stretching too far. And beware where you put that ladder. Are you putting it in front of a doorway or a high traffic area? And be a weary of overhead power lines, especially when you're using any medical metal ladders, because you may get electrocuted. Do not overload. Never exceed the maximum load over rating of that ladder. This includes the weight of the user, plus any tools and materials. And of course, always follow the manufacturer's guidelines. Where are those manufacturing guidelines? They're typically on the stickers on the ladder ladder. You know the ones that everybody rips off. And then says, Hey, I'm not responsible because I don't know. I don't know. I wasn't told. That's why you need training. And if you want full protection training, give us a call here at 845-269-5772 and arrange a full protection training class. So for gym puzzle or for safety words, I should say, this is gym puzzle. And I will see you tomorrow. Have a nice night, everybody, if not tomorrow, then Wednesday. And come on play for me. Here we go. [BLANK_AUDIO] [ Silence ]