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Safety Wars 9-4-2024 Discussion on Preparing the Elderly for Disasters, OSHA's News and Views
Hi this is Jim from Safety Wars. Before we start the program I want to make sure everyone understands that we often talk about OSHA and EPA citations along with some other regulatory actions from other agencies, legal cases, and criminal activity. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Propose fines are exactly that and they are often litigated, reduced, or vacated. We use available public records and news accounts and press releases. We cannot warranty or guarantee the details of any of the stories we share since we are not directly involved with these stories, at least not most of the time. Enjoy the show. And from the border of Liberty and Prosperity in the Highlands and North, this is Safety Wars for Wednesday, September 4th, 2024. We are going to be going over some disaster preparation subject again. This is our second program of the disaster preparation of 2024. How's everybody doing out there? I hope you enjoyed last night's commentary on that and the fourth category of disasters as I have labeled them myself. Anyway, we are going to be going over tonight with older adults. What do you do? Unfortunately, I have had to manage the help manage the affairs of several older adults over the last couple of years and I am going to show you one of my tools and I am going to make this available to you. I have a drinking problem. A lot of news tonight on our next show. We are going to go into that and not going to touch it tonight. So we are going to head on over to the music. That's Matrix called. We are going to head on over to the Ready.gov website here. I hope you folks are all seeing this. Ready.gov. Let me zoom in a little here. Why don't we go to the government stuff? It's not copyrighted number one. Someone complains, "Hey, it's the government saying it." Not me so much. Even though I do give commentary on this. Ready.gov has a whole bunch of good resources out here. Here you have, if you are following along on the video, the disaster preparedness guide for adults. Some tended to support older adults and their caregivers for preparing in three easy sets of success. Your needs create a plan and engage your network. They have a nice little FEMA video here. With that, take control, emergency preparedness and everything. It's all wonderful and good and everything else we can say on that. But the big deal is this. Planning ahead. Just having a conversation. Just having a conversation on how you are going to prepare and how you are going to do things is essential because you are much further ahead than anybody else. So how are you going to communicate? Is it going to be by that darn smartphone which is probably going to be down during some of these disasters, especially a winter storm, flooding, fire, anything like that, that may be down. Your landline phone may be down if you still have one and you know what that is and your voice over in a protocol. The other issue is this. Don't discount a walkie talkie, especially if you are in an immediate neighborhood. UHF radio, walkie talking, any of those. How are you going to communicate? How are you going to get information? The older crowd I think likes to use still, right? Radio, especially if they are an audio file. This is the one. They don't make this anymore. For me, this was the best one going at the time. I got it from my father's house once he passed away. But anyway, they are... No. Radio and TV. You would be shocked or maybe you wouldn't be shocked. We had an internet out of here a couple of weeks ago and we had everybody going freaking out because they couldn't watch TV because everything is on an app and I said, well, I'll just look up the old-fashioned VHF antenna. Take me about 10 minutes. What's VHF? We can't do that. Well, first of all, it's very high frequency and then you have UHF ultra high frequency. Nobody... It was like foreign, especially to my kids. They had never... I am told them about it. I was never really understood what was going on. So that's the big thing. Plan on how you're going to communicate. Plan for water, food, water, and essentials for you and your pets or service animals. Research pet friendly evacuation centers. Plan for your transportation. If you have mobility issues, how are you going to get from one point to another? How are you going to evacuate? You may have to evacuate sooner than everybody else, even before an evacuation order is given because you have issues, you have mobility issues. Include items that meet your individual needs, such as medicines, medical supplies, batteries, chargers, and your emergency supply kit. And remember, what are you going to be able to do once you're there? If you're going and let's say handicap equipment van, that's not your own. You're being transported by someone else. You're not going to be able to bring a lot of stuff with you. So there are essentials that you need. We're going to go over some of that stuff right now. And you have to make a plan for people with disabilities. Now, if we break away from regular work, I'm just a regular home, and let's think about work. This is one of those things when I do a safety audit and let's say a high-rise, hey, you have people who are disabled, who have mobility issues, are you going to be able to get them out of the place when there is a fire? That sort of thing. Those are the things you need to worry about. How are you going to, no. Again, that does not help to be a tragedy person, a person who doesn't get along with people. You want to create some type of a support network of families, friends, and others, I can assist you during an emergency. So during Superstorm Sandy here in New Jersey back in 2012, was it? In 2012, we had a situation where we were without power for 11 days, where I was living at the time at Chestnut Ridge, New York, right literally on the border of New York and New Jersey. At the end of this driveway, I had a sign on one side of the side and said, "Welcome to New York." Another one said, "Welcome to New Jersey." That's how close we were, and was literally the end of the driveway. I digress, as usual. This is safety wars, of course, but we had people in Tom's River that I had known because disaster preparation was a big thing for like a year or a cycle after this in New Jersey. Nobody wanted to hear about it, and everybody became an expert on it. Sort of like how everybody became an expert in virology during COVID, and we had a group of people who were really, who were preppers. They absolutely were preppers. This is what they did. They wanted to live off the ground in Tom's River, New Jersey, and when the older people in their house and their family, their whatever, you want to call it, community, they were like, "Oh, yeah, yeah, you should have stuff together." And the younger people, "Come on, that'll never happen." "Ah, you're so blah, blah, blah. You can always call out for food." Again, apps weren't there, Uber Eats or anything. We could do this, we could do that. It's not going to be a problem. Superstorm Sandy came in there, destroyed the place. And the people, these people, I mean, they had, they had the gonads, and that must have been like basketballs. They said, "Everybody came from their family who were ridiculing them for it to get their stuff." "Hey, do you have this? Do you have that?" They said, "No, you go to the shelter. We've been telling you to prepare like this for two years for disaster." Oh, and by the way, people in the family who weren't mocking us for two last two, three years, guess what? Come on in. We're happy to share. And they estranged themselves from the rest of their family. Again, not my approach, but you know, this is the approach of the family. And this is why it's important to have a support network. Not along with people, try to mend fences, forgive. You know, if you can't, as you're able to here, right? Don't forgive the unforgivable, but, you know, even though as a Christian, you have to forgive. But you know what I'm saying? Jesus said to forgive, not be a fruitcake, meaning that's an old term, meaning don't be a jerk, don't be an idiot or anything else with this. "Create a support network of family and friends that can help each other." Again, this could be your street, your local family, no end, everything else. And there are other resources here that they list. Now, one of the ones that I became essential, right, for me, right, make copies of Medicare, Medicaid, Medicare, and other insurance cards, take pictures of your house, make sure you have current pictures of your house would be another one. Throw that on the list of things that you need to do. What I had was this. Let me get back to this. One of the things that I had was this. I had developed this. I don't know if you're seeing this or not. Current application. There we go. I had developed this list. If you're watching this on video or I'll describe it to you on audio here. I had a medicine list that we did not leave the house with when my parents were alive. And this was a morning list. When I had a medicine list, what it was easy for me to keep track of things when I used to have to go. And when I used to have to go and refill those pill tray things. No, I have an example right here, these pill trays. I would do like two or three weeks for my parents at a clip. And it was easy to get confused. And this is one of the big issues with older adults, especially if they have a little bit of cognitive decline of some sort is that it's very easy to get the medicines confused. And one you need though. So I developed this list. And this list would go wherever they went. So for example, if they had a medical emergency, ambulance coming over or we had to drive them to the hospital, this list would go with them. If they went to the doctor, this list would go with them to the doctor. So the doctor could, hey, doctor, can you go and you know, there's a list. Can you go and check this out? Many things very easy, especially in an emergency where you have people out there. No, it's an emergency situation. You have people freaking out. You have people yelling. You have people screaming. You have the EMT trying to distract you from that. So they ask you medical questions on whoever the victim is. And I'm not blaming him on that, you know, disparaging that that's, you know, what they're supposed to do. No, because they don't want to deal with two patients, right? The patient you called and then you're freaking out and you have a problem there. So they try out as a strategy to calm you down. It's also a strategy to get information from you because they need information to give you to be able to properly treat your loved one, your employee, what have you with that. So I developed this thing and we have, right, the, why does this keep coming up? Ah, hold on. Right. There we go. So here we have a medicine list and you put the person's name in there. Right. If you again, if you want this, email me, I'll send it out to you. Jim at safetywars.com. So you had the morning dose. Right. What, what it is in the morning. The who, what's doctor prescribed it? Afternoon. All right. And there's generally four. There can be two, there can be three, there can be four, there can be more than that. And generally what's in there and any special instructions. So for example, for a certain heart medication, if my parents heart rate got below or above a certain rate, guess what? We have to change the dose and you had special instructions. For example, let's say that they're on insulin. Now guess what? Okay. On insulin, if the, if your blood sugar is between X and X, you need to get, uh, no, get this much insulin. If it's between this and this, you need that much. If you're having a dinner of this, you know, you decide to go splurge and make a run out and get ice cream. Well, I was at a place very rural. And guess what? I did not know that you could order ice cream delivery. So ice cream delivery. That sounds good. That could be dangerous for Jimmy, you know, uh, you can get that on there, special instructions. Now that is for filling in the trays. So if you look over here and I'm going to highlight this, you have, I have here listed, uh, the list of medicines and what they are for. Now that is for is highlighted in yellow. You're going to say, Jimmy, aren't you confusing things? You're blah, blah, blah. No, this is to reduce confusion because also what happens here is the, uh, what we find out is yes, you have filling in the trays and then you also have for the, uh, medical personnel, they don't go by morning, afternoon, midday or evening. They go by, they want to know what the list of the medicines are, what the doses and how many times a day and who prescribed it. That's all that they want. So this would be like, let's say aspirin, those, uh, uh, uh, 20 micro, 20 milligrams, I think those are 20 micrograms, whatever it is. And then we'll be twice a day. All right. Or title it all, 100 milligrams, three times a day where whatever it is and who was the doctor who prescribed it and you do include medicine, vitamins on here also. And this is how this is managed because that's how the medical personnel want to see the information here. And also what the, uh, no, no, what the, uh, how it gets inputted into the, uh, database into their program is like this list of medicines, what therefore knows how many times a day and who prescribed it. Now why, now you would think, well, hey, uh, I'll, I'll give you a good example, beta blockers and the whole class of beta blockers, uh, for the heart and, uh, generally speaking, they slow the heart rate down. They're meant for that. So let's say people who have heart issues, maybe a heart attack or something like that, maybe on some type of beta blocker. However, beta blockers also have off, uh, have other uses have off label uses. For example, they're often used to treat anxiety right with that. They're often used, believe me, I'm not a doctor. I'm not playing one on the radio, but this is what they're, you know, you could look it up on any number of websites, what they're used for off label. Anxiety is one. Uh, another, uh, thing that they're used for is migraine headaches, not so used for some of them. So it may not be, that's why you had to have, hey, what they're for. Also, if someone has a chronic infection, some sort, you may have some type of antibiotic. Well, why are you on that antibiotic? Well, I'm on that antibiotic for X, Y, and Z. That is the sort of thing that you need to be aware of and what makes things easier. Now, the next section here is this doctors and contact information, right? That is an important thing on there. Uh, who, who your doctors are, what your dresses are, what the phone numbers are, and what they're for. Uh, maybe I'll just add that are in there and what kind of doctor? Are they general practitioner? Are they kidney doctor, liver doctor, oncologist? What is that? And the phone and the address. Uh, and the address is important because a lot of doctors have multiple offices and the, or they're part of a larger practice that has multiple offices. So you need to know what office you normally go to. Don't assume. Now, one of the attitudes in the pushback things I got from, uh, family members was, well, at the hospital, they know what it is. They have the doctors, blah, blah, blah. And guess what? No, they don't. They don't. Uh, I've been at, uh, situations where we handed them this list. And this is the current. This has been verified by their doctors and blah, blah, blah. And then you go in there and the hospital is working off of what their records and what their list was for their records, especially that. Uh, especially, and I'm not going to, again, I'm not disparaging medical practitioners. I am stating my experience is peer to peer advice. Uh, where I was at one hospital, uh, they had replacement nurses because the nurses were going to go on strikes. So they had her DM nurses and they said, well, our records say X, Y and Z. And I said, well, your records are one hour, one year out of date. Number one, number two, this is the list. All fill that. Uh, number two and number three, you're giving them my parent, uh, medication that they're not on anymore. Why are you doing that? Well, uh, we didn't know. It's like sad to sit down and said, you know, I had to hold my, I was like, look, I don't know. I know you got a hundred patients in here. I don't know what kind of system you have, but again, this is the list. This is the list you need to use. And when they're like, Oh, uh, I said, I don't know where you're getting your list. Can I see a supervisor? Because there's something really amissier. Once you ask for a supervisor, usually stuff gets straightened out or a patient advocate. They sometimes call them. And, and again, you know, this is the way it is. And this is why it's important to have this something else on this list. I'll highlight is this hospital information. So we have to deal with this with a family number, right family member right now with hospital information. The insurance company that the family member has, unless it's an urge emergency situation, they only want that person to go to a certain hospital because they have a deal made with the hospital. So billing issue. And the other thing is this, this your local community hospital set up to do to treat the situation that you may have. So for example, we had on a project somebody with a neck injury and they had fallen off of a ladder and they had injured their neck. And there was a hospital right literally across the street from the job site. So the idea was I was like, Oh, well, good. Or it was me, my person said, Oh, good. Right across the street. Okay, we, well, ambulance, we'll be in there. The ambulance comes and says, they ain't going to that hospital. Why not? Well, they're not set up to do deal with neck injuries at that hospital. We have to go to another hospital on the other side of town. Oh, really? Yes. Because if we go there emergency room all that they're going to do is stabilize it and the patient is stabilized already. We did that here. All that they're going to do is say, okay, now go to the other hospital because they're not equipped here for this. And that's basically what happened. And I guess whether there was a good outcome overall because they went to the appropriate hospital. And this is why it's important to have on your list what the hospitals are you're you're supposed to go to. And with that, insurance company and your insurance numbers have a copy of the card. You're the patient name and address and health issues. This is another thing. The hospitals may go off of their records, like my experience with them. However, health issues change a lot of times, you know, you don't rely on the patient, especially if they're older to tell what the health issues are because they may be embarrassed. You know that there are certain health issues out there that people feel embarrassed about discussing. And also it's a confidentiality thing. You don't want a person may not want to let their be in the hospital, let the whole world know, or may not even admit or say that they have a health issue. For example, where they have a certain situation. So for example, I've heard that a lot of times people are transgendered here. Guess what? They're have the appearance of a woman. They're a woman, trans woman, right? Trans female, whatever the appropriate, not offensive politically correct term is, right? Well, guess what? They appear that way. It may be there on that. But guess what? And they may not tell that to the hospital. And there may be a situation where that's an important piece of information. It goes the other way too. Another thing, diabetes. A lot of people have because there's still even the one fifth of the nation is either diabetic or prediabetic. There's a lot of shame around that illness, especially with the type 2 diabetics there, that may have complications. They may not tell the hospital EMTs that they have diabetes, hypertension. They may not know that I have these illnesses too. All of this stuff goes in there and there may be other illnesses, HIV. There's a stigma with these illnesses. There are many others out there with that. Mouns, M-POTS or monkey POTS that is associated with as a sexually transmitted disease for some populations. So this might be something that they don't want to share. Who's the health care advocate and contact info? So that was my brother and I, and what is the pharmacy information? What pharmacy do they go to? They may, upon discharge, they may have to call on some prescriptions. You need to know what pharmacy you want to go to. Now, the other thing is this. You want to have copies of the following. A living will, if there is one involved. A DNR, do not resuscitate order if that's appropriate. Power of attorney, health care proxies. So, for example, my brother and I used to carry around copies of the DNR and the power of attorney with us. In case there was an issue, we could handle it with the power of attorney. So we have some family members who are in long-term care. We carry this around with us. So we're able to make decisions if need be with that. That's the big thing is going out there and doing your thing. You're making a plan and everything else. And that's where we're going to go. We're going to go to commercial break and we will be back. That's what I have. Again, we'll be back here later in the week. Tomorrow night, I don't know if I'll be here or not because we do have parent teacher night tomorrow or one of my children and, you know, I'm a father. I try to be involved and we're going to go from there. So we'll be back after the commercial break. Off the hook either. Section 5B mandates they follow all safety standards. Both employers and employees must work together to maintain a safe work environment. Examples think lifting above shoulder height repeatedly or working without proper support. Stay proactive. Monitor work areas, apply the four-part test, and you'll prevent those nasty citations and keep everyone safe. Need help? And more information. 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Dial in to safetyfm.com today and surround yourself with a powerful force of knowledge and support. We're going to go into some stories here and since we're coming in on some of this stuff in the middle of the program on some of these platforms, we're going to play the intro again. Hi, this is Jim from Safety Wars. Before we start the program, I want to make sure everyone understands that we often talk about OSHA and EPA citations, along with some other regulatory actions from other agencies, legal cases and criminal activity. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Proposed fines are exactly that and they are often litigated, reduced or vacated. We use available public records and news accounts and press releases. We cannot warranty or guarantee the details on any of the stories we share since we are not directly involved with these stories, at least not most of the time. Enjoy the show. OSHA recordables, catastrophic losses, environmental disasters. Do you want answers? So do I. This is Jim Poelzel with Safety Wars. That's my daddy. All right, so it looks like we got everything sorted out here with the video and everything else. I don't know. I think it's a bandwidth issue here that I could really do anything about. I have a 5G connection here. Something going on here with the software. As I said, everyone, I've replayed the intro because I don't want to get into a problem here with people. We're going to, for you video listeners, are going to be video viewers. They're going to be redoing the first half of the program here. The Department of Labor recovers 141,000 in wages and damages for 28 workers, wrongly denied over time, by Dallas area, home health care provider. So basically the U.S. Department of Labor's wage and hour division found a company paid 28 exempt, non-exempt employees, meaning that they have to pay them overtime. Straight time for work for hours over 40 hours worked in a week when time and a half was required. So when they hit 40, they paid in straight time rather than time and a half. So they recovered 70,631 back wages and 70,731 in liquidated damages. Home health care employees are among the most nations hardest working again. Art is working. This is all from Jesus A. Valdez. Most paid workers and their employers must pay them for all their earned wages. Employers should review their payroll practices to avoid compliance issues and the costs and consequences of violating the law and contact the wage, hour and division with questions. Again, you're going to be seeing a lot more of these. You're already seeing a lot of them. Here we have U.S. Department of Labor obtains drugs for requiring a Pennsylvania in-home health care agency to pay $1 million to 193 employees, denying minimum wage and overtime. I suspect that we had illegal immigrants involved. There are people being paid off the bucks. U.S. Department of Labor has obtained summary judgment in federal court and its effort to recover more than $1 million in back wages and liquidated damages for 193 employees of a Pennsylvania home care agency and its owner, which failed to pay the workers required minimum and overtime wages in response to the Department's motion for summary judgment. The U.S. District Club for the middle district of Pennsylvania entered a judgment requiring a company in Lebanon and its owners to pay $1.5 million in back wages plus an equal amount in liquidated damages. So they paid workers less than $7.25 an hour, which is the current federal minimum wage at the time of the all started here. Again, if they're violating this, you're violating OSHA regulations. And it goes on and on and on with home health care type stuff and in health care systems here. Going on, here we have another one, landscaping company. U.S. Department of Labor recovers $103,000 in back wages for 38 workers misclassified as independent contractors. Now, you're going to say, well, generally you're talking about all this wages and all goes together. If a company is screwing you on your wages, I can guarantee that the company is screwing you on a lot of other things too. Just they go hand in hand. I don't know how else to describe it. If they're breaking one law, they're breaking the OSHA laws, right? The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $103,665 in back wages for 38 workers employed by a Southweight West Southlake landscaping company misclassified them as independent contractors, and by doing so, denied them over time pay. This is more than what the issue is here. You're going to be seeing a lot more of this. If the seat illness standard goes through that we discussed yesterday's show. So why is that? Companies like landscaping companies are not going to comply with the law. Look at all the stuff in Region 2 for OSHA. This is a targeted industry. But again, how many things are going to go around in every mom and pop landscaping company? This is a bigger one, 38 workers. They're going to go after all of them for this stuff. I don't think so. I don't have the resources for it. I'm not saying they're an evil organization or they're lazy. They're underfunded from time and memorial here. And that's how I see it. So the other thing is why do they misclassify them as independent contractors? What do they have to apply? OSHA. That's my point. Now how can they get around for it? If all 38 workers started their own company, they were paying 38 different companies. That's how you get around that here. But to pay them as an independent contractor. And again, I'm not an attorney. I'm not a tax person. I'm not a CPA. So check with your own people on doing that. The other thing is that they, because they're paying them like this, they don't have to pay any taxes. They don't have to pay any workers comp. They don't have to pay liability insurance. They don't have to pay a whole bunch of stuff with that. And I mean, I'm looking at Department of Labor thing. This is like going on and on and on and on with this. So this came out last week. August 29, 2024, Department of Labor completed impact inspections at 16 mines with histories of repeated safety health violations in July 2024. The U.S. Department of Labor announced today. This is last week. That is mine safety and health administration. Emsha completed impact inspections at 16 mines in 10 states in July 2024, issuing 239 violations on one safeguard. The agency began impact inspections after the April 2010 explosion in West Virginia at the upper big branch mine at that killed 25 workers. Emsha's impact inspections since 2023 had identified 4314 violations, including 1,189 significant and substantial and 82 unwarrantable failure findings. A SNS violation is one that could contribute in a significant and substantial way to the cause and effect who wait to the cause and affect them a safety health hazard. Of the 239 violations in July 2024, Emsha evaluated 70 as a SNS, a significant and substantial 11 had unwarrantable failure findings. And they list them all going through here. Now, what were they looking for accumulate accumulations combusting materials in a coal mine. That issue. I mean, there were towns that had fires underground from coal mines and they haven't gone out. And it's been decades in one town almost, I believe it's New Streetsville, Ohio. It's almost a century of that. Don't ask me how I know, right? And it wasn't because of the Moonshine Festival. I was not there for that, unfortunately. The Moonshine, the New Streetsville, Ohio had a Moonshine Festival. I don't know if they still have it. They used to have it. They also had pig calling there. I worked for the person who won the pig calling contest. Numerous electrical hazards were identified throughout a mine. For example, in the side of a belt conveyor's drive system, exposed miners to a potential 480-volt electrocution hazard. Another mine, they had an issue with extremely hot and smoking tailpully bearing and a belt conveyor. They protect miners from an imminent fire and an explosion to hazard. Miners are immediately removed from the mine. Mine managed and failed to ensure fire warning systems are in there and everything else. So, no, Emsha, we don't talk about a lot, but one of the bigger organizations here, da da da. And that's what we have there. We already covered that on other programs here. U.S. EPA News. So here we have a lot of sites recently that were listed on the NPL list, National Priority List. All right. So, let's look into this. Today, September 4th, the U.S. EPA is adding one site and proposing to add four digital sites in Supersoap Fund National Priorities List. The NPL, National Priorities List, is a list of known sites throughout the United States and its territories for historic leases of hazardous substances, pollutants that are contaminants for significant threats to human health and the environment. The Biden and Harris Administration has ride a historic funding to accelerate EPA's work to clean up NPL sites so they can be returned to the communities for productive use. And guess what? Everyone's favorite wall, the bipartisan infrastructure wall, $3.5 million investment in the Superfund Remedium Program and the inflation reduction action statement of the Superfund's Pluto-Pays chemical excise tax help pay for this. So, basically, they're the chemical industry and any type of petrochemical, chemical, blah, blah, blah, whole bunch of lists and industries have an excise tax applied that is pay use to clean up sites. That was, for like 20 years, they didn't have that and was never renewed. It's renewed now, I guess it's a good thing. So, what's going, what should go on and we're going to talk about this because there are things. So, there's the afterthought mine in Bella Vista, California on the NPL. EPA is proposing to add the following sites, historic potteries in Trenton, New Jersey, I know where that is, Carlisle Village Cleaners in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I know where that is. Exide technologies in Vernon, California and JH Baxter and Eugene, all of Oregon. I went to this cleaner company, I thanked in Albuquerque when I was on a long-term project there and the historic potteries in Trenton, I'm from New Jersey, come on, and I worked in the Trenton area. So, what are the impacted areas there? Past activities that the sites announced today include copper, zinc, lead, silver, then gold mining, right? I guess that is at the afterthought mine. Pottery manufacturing, which you know, a lot of lead and some other chemicals there, dry cleaning chemicals from dry cleaners, lead acid battery refining, recycling, exide technologies, outside, I guess, is a random batteries, I don't know if it's the same one, and wood treating up there in Eugene, Oregon. Site contaminants are numerous and include hazardous substances as such as lead, zinc, and other heavy metals chlorinated solvents. That's your TCE, PCE and a lot of that stuff, anything with chlorine, and arsenic, contamination effects, surface water groundwater soil, either residential and industrial, and subsurface soil, vapor intrusion. With that, we have a press release for every one of these here with this and a lot of this stuff is up for public comment here. Let me double check. Yeah, check this out. Some of this stuff is what, you know, they have all the obligatory politicians chiming in on this stuff and pats on the back and everything else with this. So that's an issue. Here we have one. This just came across DOJ alleges rush. This is from CNN, Zachary Cone, Don Neezo Sullivan, Eve and Perez, and Tron Lingas. Right, DOJ, Department of Justice, alleges rush of funded US media company linked to right-wing social media stars. The unnamed Texas-based company, the Justice Department of Legends, was being funded by Russian operatives working as part of a Kremlin orchestrated influence operation targeting. The 2024 US election is a certain company. I don't know if this is true or not. So I'm not mentioning it. It was just linked to right-wing commentators and millions of subscribers on YouTube. Now, who are the right-wing commentators with this? People who I've never heard of, I'll be honest with you here with this. Just never heard of them. I mean, they may be popular online, but a lot of people have never heard of me. And then I find out how popular I am with some things. I don't know. So that's what I have for tonight. Let's see if there's anything else going on here with things. There was a school shooting in Georgia today to children were killed in a high school and two administrators. Allegedly, they have 14-year-old suspect. Allegedly, as of right now, has been captured. Hopefully, they'll get to the bottom of this. And my comment on all of this is always the same with this. I don't think we're going to get gun legislation passed or anything like that, but I do think that we could probably get an update to the Occupational Safety and Health Act where schools now fall on the jurisdiction of OSHA because public schools don't do right now. And what they're going to need to do is why would that make a difference? That would make a difference because there would be a federal automatic federal investigation and fines levied for schools that don't have security. You're going to protect the teachers. You're going to be my extension for protecting the students. My opinion, easy fix here. If Congress could get their move node together. So my condolences to everybody else here. I don't want to mention who the victims are here. Again, remember, there are people involved here. I'm not automatically mean to take a political hit here and make a political comment here and make political hay out of this. However, nobody is giving solutions. And I think that would be a workable foreseeable solution for everything is everybody has to obey the same laws here with that. You could agree, you could disagree with this and our hearts go out to the families. As you know, we had a mass shooting here last December in my town and we knew the family that was involved with this. It's one hell of a thing to go after and that these are human beings and our community is still impacted by this thing a year later. And I don't think we're ever really going to get over this to be honest with you. So I will be back tomorrow night for safety wars. This is Jim Pozel. We'll see you tomorrow. 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