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Safety Wars Live 10-3-2024 Longshoreman Strike Over, Disaster Prep, OSHA, Shipyard Safety, Combustible Dust
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. This, this, this, this show is brought to you by Safety FM. And from the border of Liberty and Prosperity, and the highway to north, this is Safety Wars 4, Thursday, October 3rd, 2024. How is everybody doing out there? We had a glorious day here, today, weather-wise, in the northeast, at least where I was at. You know, end of the summer activities out there, where no, get in the boat, take care of, you know, I have a small pontoon boat. I keep, I basically watch it in April, and I keep it into the, in the, uh, water until this time of year. So, you know, that's what we do around here, and it's always fun getting that in. So, making sure all the streamers are on, and everything else I just got in, to, whatever it is that we're calling this, just got in. Okay, alright, there we go, alright, I seem to be on the air over at Safety FM. Turn on some studio lights, I came raging into the studio, alright. So right before airtime, right before airtime, it came out that the Long Shorman Union has reached an agreement down there, and, uh, I don't know, we'll see, that's, uh, I came around about 7.30 a.m., uh, 7.30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time today, uh, we're gonna talk a little bit about that, uh, here, uh, you know, a lot's going on, a lot going on, hey. So let's go, I didn't even have time to really, you know, someone else is driving, I'm there on the phone, doing this stuff. So historic, this is from ABC News, uh, go.com. Doc Workers strikes the spend in the union says, "A historic United States support strike has been suspended according to the International Long Shormance Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance." A tentative agreement was reached on wages and extending, uh, master contract until January 15, 2025, to return to the bargaining table to negotiate all other outstanding issues. Effective, and, uh, you know, it says "effect immediately, all jobs, actions, will cease and all work covered by the master contract will resume." Well, we'll see how this goes, I mean, no, uh, delay, delay, delay, delay, is what it comes down to. No, I hope they get their stuff resolved. Now, as far as everything else goes, people are in panic mode here between the, uh, between the ongoing recovery and cleanup down in the Carolina's especially, and the, uh, and everything out, and Florida and all through there. I mean, it's, uh, really, we'll see where this goes here with the, uh, with everything. You know, we'll just see how it goes. Uh, we have a, one of my neighbors is with the, uh, militant wing of the Salvation Army. Uh, and she went down there to respond to the emergency for the Salvation Army. We'll see what, uh, I'll see what information she has when she gets back. Uh, over 200 dead here, uh, so far, I think the number is going to go higher with this, uh, with dead and missing. Yes, and then it's cell disorder, I'm drinking here on the air. All right, uh, going through here. So, here's the story I found quite interesting here. Overline, Costco expands doomsday lineup with a new product after gold bar demand exploded with customers spending 200 a month. Join the dial, 200 million, yeah, 200 million a month. Precious metals join, uh, the retailers meal prep kits for the end of days. Doomsday preppers can now expect to rush to Costco as a store has revealed a new product, joining the chains lineup of precious metals, the wholesale retailer is now selling bars of platinum after their one ounce gold bars sold out in a few hours. Pretty good looking gold bar here. Uh, now I'm not an investment dude, all right, I don't have license or anything with that. Uh, but, uh, gold, uh, platinum bars, unless there is a, uh, new, uh, use for them, I was always concerned not, uh, investment grade because what have, uh, if you look back in the, uh, uh, 2009, 2008 platinum was very, very expensive. Now we're talking like 2000 an ounce roughly. Now it's at about 1100 and palladium was just cheap, about $300 an ounce, 400 an ounce is now more expensive than platinum. Silver, uh, high, silver prices, $31, $32 an ounce, uh, here. So, uh, you know, I'm not an investment guy, don't play one on the radio. Uh, this, we use to mention these on the air all the time, uh, nobody was really interested here. Uh, but again, the doomsday prep. So Costco previously made headlines and connection to product products focused on the end of the world where shoppers noticed new say meal prep kits on shelves, meal buckets, which cost less than a hundred dollars are set to last for 25 years and come with a 150 serving some easy to prepare meals, not just need water to make. The retailer also sells a $6,000 prep kit with 600 cans of food. U.S. Sun has reached out to come right now, I'm reading this. So I'd tell you what, uh, you know, unless you're faced with a cat, catastrophic situation like they're in the carolinas, Western North Carolina, especially, uh, the, there's nothing you can do with that. Everything's gone. I know it's kind of hard to prepare for that, but for the actual regular emergencies that are out there, for example, uh, what I call a scenario, right, scenario one, zero to 24 hours scenario two, 24 to 72 or 96 hours, then scenario three up to one month and then scenario four, which is extended right over 30 days, very, very difficult to, uh, once you start to get over 30 days, once you said to go over five days, three days, kind of hard, right? And the other thing is this, uh, that they're seeing a lot of those areas, where are we? If you're in the North Eastern United States, uh, you're in the head, uh, you're getting into, uh, the peak of the fall foliage season, unless it already, uh, passed, uh, I was in Northern New Jersey today, beautiful. I mean, really, really nice with the fall foliage. Uh, so these folks are going out there to North Carolina to examine fall foliage, going out there, the peaceful hunting, fishing, maybe end of the year, type of, maybe summer activities. I tell you what, the water on the lake in Northern New Jersey, very warm today. There are people out there swimming and this is October 3rd. They're swimming in New Jersey on a lake without wetsuits, unbelievable. Uh, so, you know, people are, uh, those, uh, winter, uh, summer sports, maybe, and whatever. And then they get whacked with this. So if you're going to be going away for a week, uh, no camping, fishing, what have you, you're only going to bring maybe two, three days worth of food. Maybe you're going to make, you're planning to make a grocery run in the middle of that, unless you're my friend, Frank, who, if you want to know when it's going to rain, ask Frank when he's going to, uh, schedule vacation, because I tell you what, I don't know a better predictor of weather than my friend, Frank, uh, that I went to high school with than his, uh, you know, every time he, every time, every freaking time he schedules a vacation, he's out there, and there's, uh, uh, there's a rainstorm, like extended, but anyway, unless you have someone like something like that, I mean, you're not going to carry a month's worth of people, because for those people who are trapped out there, you know, two, three, four days worth of food, it sucks. But anyway, precious metals, you know, you know, no, you know, it's, I've never heard of anyone having a problem getting rid of them is the whole thing. So here we have more on Helena has become one of the deadliest hurricanes in the modern era. There have been at least 216 deaths in six states, and this report was as of four hours ago as a 12 p.m. eastern standard time there, uh, right, there have been at least 213 deaths in six. That's as a result of the storm is flooding, wind and storm surge inundated communities from the southeast and northern Appalachians. Many of the people are still unaccounted for and they expect the death toll to rise. Okay, oh, by the way, uh, yank, Mets are on playing the Brewers, so you're going to hear some yelling and screaming and well, have swelling and gnashing of teeth depending on how the game goes in the background. This is stories from dailymail.co.uk, uh, heart attacks are one sort of a disease of age of wearing new data shows are increasing in young healthy adults, roughly 0.3% of Americans age 18 to 44 had a heart attack in 2019. By the last year that rose to 0.5% or 1 in 200, while that may seem like a relatively low number of represents a 66% increase cases in just four years, doctors are calling alarming. So, uh, I don't know what's up with that. Uh, it seems to have it right around, you know, COVID, you know, I don't know, maybe that has something to do with it. Maybe it doesn't. I don't know. Prosecutors working on the, oh, P. Dilly, we're not talking about P. Diddy here. Okay, dark side, a new meta smart glasses, Harvard students reveal how Mark Zuckerberg's creepy spectacles can be used to instantly find strangers, names and addresses. So basically, this is what it is. You put on the, uh, glasses, right, uh, right, two Harvard students have taken the devices, privacy, invading capabilities even further, further by, uh, building a modified version called I X ray, the creepy system uses AI and facial recognition software to instantly docs people's identities. And in a standing clip, the students go up to random strangers and quickly identify their name and all other personal details, including their home addresses, work history and names of their parents, uh, scary, because basically, uh, meta to view the smart glasses in 2021 have been raised over the ability to film people without their knowledge. Well, this is what I tell people, assume you're being filmed, where I am, uh, the projects I am on our all film. That's why it is get used to it, but this takes it to a whole new level, uh, with that you have like no privacy with this, uh, stuff here, uh, scary thing, scary thing, uh, especially if you are a vote, a member of a vulnerable community, like female, right, this is scary. Okay, what else we got here, tentative dealer, M and M is going to become a grandfather. M and M has real, his daughter is pregnant in a sweet video showing the rapper receiving custom football jersey with grandpa on the back, right? Uh, the rapper 51 dropped the music video for his new single temporary featuring a scene himself and his daughter, Haley Jade Scott. In the Q scene, M and M, real name, Marshall Mathers, sits on a set of stairs on a porch with Haley 28, something she hands him a custom Detroit Lions jersey that says grandpa, maybe I need to get one of those custom, uh, oh yeah, I'm wearing one, always, always on the right there. Even Jay Allen said, you're wearing, you know, he seems to me while we were doing the last conference call, we were on his show, the great, rated R safety show and, uh, he says, you wear that all the time, I said, every time I'm on the air, I wear it, uh, this is the vatted Star Wars, and there's been an analysis, high budget, scrap projects, fan backlash, it's been 12 years since this, they've brought Star Wars and its galaxy far, far away, arguably, has too many broken toys. Well, let me, uh, comment on here with this, Star, this is one of this, it's too much of a good thing, right, uh, and you're getting, you can run out of ideas here, this is what happened to Star Trek, that's why we didn't have Star Trek episodes from 2004, 2005, 2004, until 2017, they had to take a break. Because we had Star Trek the next generation, pushing into Deep Space Nine, pushing into Voyager, deep pushing into Star Trek Enterprise, and we had a couple of movies thrown in there at a boot, too much, I think that's what's going on with that, uh, yeah, something I do know about. Let's go to our first commercial break here and, uh, we'll do it. 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The Department of Labor investigators, fine. Nebraska grain cooperative, exposed workers, combustible dust, multiple hazards out of Hemingford elevator. Hemingford and Nebraska, federal investigators, by the way, everyone's innocent until proven guilty and most of these penalties are proposed, like in this case, so that may be vacated, may be, no, I didn't know there was words this song, but anyway, 500, no, all this stuff may be vacated, may be litigated, may be negotiated downward or upward, who knows, depending on what things are. I've seen it negotiated upward, right? So, federal investigators found life-threatening hazards at a Nebraska grain cooperative where workers face risks of fire and explosions due to the company allowing the buildup of combustible dust and failing to maintain effective dust control systems, leading to more than $500,000 in proposed penalties. Now let's talk a little bit about dust hazards before we go on here. Now you're going to say, well, really we're going to talk about dust hazards, yeah, we're going to talk about dust hazards here, basically this comes down to this, where I'm getting back to E, E software, okay, here we go. So, basically, with the dust, what are they talking about? They're talking about organic dust, generally speaking, could be metals also. Anything flammable? Now, people say, well, metals are flammable, Jim, yeah, metals are flammable. If they are ground down to the right level, I'm not going to tell you how to do that on the air. I have a pretty extensive experience with aluminum fires so we'll leave it to that point, specifically dealing with powdered aluminum. So once you grind a mill aluminum down, we're talking aluminum, right, aluminum can I have here on the air. What happens is this, something has a nice surface area, all right, you have a surface area. And if you go and you grind that down, you increase those grains, have more surface area than the original brick. So if you had a brick of aluminum and you were going to grind that down, the surface area increases. That means that there is more opportunity for a chemical reaction because you grind it down. Once you start to get into very fine powders, we're talking like 0.28 microns or lower. Usually, for aluminum, that's what the magic number is. Now all of a sudden, you become, it becomes a powder, it becomes explosive, it becomes very flammable. Now, you're going to say, Jim, you're full of guuvna. Oh, and we've all witnessed an aluminum fire. Jim, what do you mean? We've all witnessed an aluminum fire. Solid rocket boosters on the rockets, those solid rockets or solid rocket boosters, all of them have are made up of ground aluminum, ammonium perchlorate, ground very in a very fine powder, and a binder material. And what happens is they take, it's like making bread, they have this stuff, they put it in a mold, like a bread mold, like something's huge, right, with this. And they put it in there, they let it cure, and that's called a rocket motor. And then they ignite it, but once you ignite it, there's no going back. It's got a solid rocket fuel. It's one way of doing it. So if you have a, that's one way of making solid rocket fuel. So if you notice around military bases and in the area outside of San Jose, California, southern San Jose over by Morgan Hill, a lot of those areas are impacted by rocket fuel engines and rockets because you have a perchlorate issue in the ground. Oh, yeah. So that's where that comes from. Now, around air force bases, wherever they have solid rocket fuel. So getting back to an aluminum dust or a dust hazard, here we have with grain, grain is grain, and it's flammable. What often happens is that you have an accumulation of material, right? And then what happens is there's an event where the material gets dislodged and comes down in a powder form, right? And what happens is it hits an ignition source and before you know it, it catches fire and you have a grain explosion. You have a organic dust explosion. All the same thing, just different contexts of what you want to talk about it. So here we have investigators from OSHA responded to a complaint of an unsafe working condition at a grain elevator, an open inspection in March 2024 under the re-agencies regional emphasis program for grain handling facilities in Nebraska. And here I'm clicking on that, and that's from October 1st, 2009. And that is the directive CPL 213-001I, capital I. So I identify this is from region 7 and this scope, this instruction applies to the Omaha area office. Specifically, OSHA found the company permitted more than 1/8 of an inch of grain dust to accumulate, hey, I didn't even read it. Look, it's here, in priority housekeeping areas, such as the bottom belt tunnel around the elevator legs. The agency also found duct tape wrapped around the dust collection system located in the bottom belt tunnel in a makeshift attempt to repair the dust collection system. This reduced the system's efficiency and increases vulnerability to failure. If left unchecked, grain dust will ignite in seconds and cause deadly fires and explosions. Grain dust fires and explosions, oh, let me go back here to the screen, yes, my vision dust report, maybe I should exit out of that. All right, yes, I went for an eye exam yesterday. That was up on the screen, all right. And why don't we do this, since everything is coming up here, let's go back to here and then we close out everything that needs to be closed. This way you're not seeing all this, yes, I had an eye exam yesterday. All right, new eye doctor, real good guy here in New City, so, you know, New City, I care, I think that was the name of the place, pretty good place, but anyway, I'll give him a free shout out there. Ocean-sided, right, grain dust, explosions, here it is, ocean-sided legacy, cooperative for two willful and 22 serious safety and health violations and proposed penalties totaling $536,965. So not conducting regular inspections on equipment, failing to recertify completion of preventative maintenance, not complying with permit, come on, permit confined, they have permit confirmed. The hell, it looks like something that I would write, including developing procedures for entry operations that included hazard evaluations, atmospheric testing, rescue procedures, monitoring and training, exposing workers through full hazards from unguarded stairwells and lack of handrails, failing to close electrical openings, and improper use of flexible cords. That is extension cords, folks. Not providing a forklift training as required and failing to label containers of hazardous chemicals properly. Through a alliance program, OSHA has partnered with the Grain Handling Safety Coalition, the CABA, the Grain Hand Elevator and Processing Society and National Grain Feed Association, to address hazards, reduce risk, and improve safety and health management systems, to help prevent life-altering injuries and fatalities, and identify the critical critical steps for handling rain safely. And of course, they have 15 days to do, let's take a deeper look into this. So this was issued 923, so there are a couple of weeks behind here. Okay. This is 1910.28 Walking and Working Services. Each employee is protected from falling into a ladder floor or a ladder-wave platform on a whole wide guardrail system, and toeboards erecting on all the exposed sides except the entrance to the hole, or self-closing gates or an offset must be used. Other or bad, blah, blah, blah, blah, we're exposed to falling hazards while employees were accessing and working in Jason to Pit B in that during entries, the pit door is open, and there is no guard railing or other conventional fall protection means to prevent someone from falling into the entrance hole. And that was $11,524, citation 1, item 2, 19, and it is employer did not ensure each flight of stairs, having at least three transfer more for a risers have a stairwell, $9,200. Citation 1, item 3, type of violation serious, did not evaluate 1910, 146, did not evaluate the workplace to determine if any spaces were permit required. Okay, that's 16,131 you mean, they didn't go in there with a freaking letter, that's a freaking letter in a file somewhere, are you freaking kidding me? 1910, 146, D3I entered the permit required confined space program, they've already did not develop and implement the means for seizures and practices necessary for safe permit entry operations, 16,131. So what would the hazard be here, I'm thinking it's going to be a dust hazard, which means dreaming would have to probably get out the textbook and look up how to, I don't remember how to calculate it. But there's a calculation for it, under the permit space system employed to not develop and implement the procedures, means, and practices necessary for safe permit entry position operations, including but not limited to purging and nerding, flushing or ventilation. About zero dollars, so what was the chemical? Employees were exposed to atmospheres containing Fozveen, PH3, it's a chemical formula Fozveen, I'm not familiar with it. I'm entering PH3 and they did not make sure everything was in there, abatement certifications required, that was zero, they got them on, citation 1, item 4c, no verification, the conditions are acceptable for entry. Citation 1, item 5a, that was 16,131, reevaluate the permit space in the presence of any authorized extension or that employees authorized representative who requests that the employer conduct in such a reevaluation because the entry representative has, or has recently believed that the evaluation may not have been adequate. So employees engaged in grain operations were exposed to hazardous atmospheres and other recognized hazards, when entering PH3 the employer filter property reevaluate PH3 once they received notification of hazardous conditions, including the detection of Fozveen above the monitor or alarm thresholds when employees entered, 16,131, and next one, citation 1, item 5b, did not protect employees, $0, citation 1, item 6a, rather lengthy, 16,131, no procedures for summoning rescue and emergency services, and citation 1, item 6b, no designated emergency service, they got them for zero on that, citation 1, item 7, serious, the entry permitted that documents compliance with the section and authorized entry did not identify the required information listed below. So basically, I don't know what kind of permit they were using, but it was missing 13 different items, right on that, and that's 16,131, there's got to be some bigger ones here, citation 1, item 8, type of violation, serious, no training for their employees, 16,131, citation 1, item 9, no fire extinguishers, adequately in there, not readily accessible, 6,913, citation 1, item 10, serious, that was for 11,524, no training, no practical training, nothing, not a zero, zilch. The employer did not develop an implement a written housekeeping program, 1910-272, 16,131, citation 1, item 12a, type of violation, serious, preventative maintenance procedures in grain handling facility were not implemented to provide regularly scheduled inspections. That was 16,131, that's the maximum. The employer did not maintain the certification record of each relative maintenance inspection. Again, you got to have a written inspection. If it's not enough to say, yeah, I inspected it, when is there a written inspection, can you prove it, the answer is no, you got a problem, real simple, nothing on there, citation 1, item 13, preventative maintenance procedures in the grain handling facility were not implemented to provide lubrication and other appropriate maintenance and accordance with manufacturers recommendations for as determined necessary by prior operating records. Again, no procedures, 16,131, citation 1, item 14a, was an electrical typing, 1910-305 opening through which conductors under cut out boxes, cabinets or fittings were not effectively closed. You can punch outs in a lot of things and you can use punch outs in the junction boxes and in electrical panels and guess what, switches and things like that, they got punched out where you can now put wires through them. Once you can't have open punch outs, they got to be closed. I don't know how you would do that, and then reseal them, then replace them. Type of violation, serious 1910-305, the raceway is fastened, as it's out of end and other points as necessary, a raceway was not connected to the electrical enclosure, was exposing any of your dryness conductors, zero on that, flexible cords and/or cables are used as a substitute for the fixed wiring of a structure, $6,913, basically, extension cords. This is actually interesting, the employees were exposed to fire and shock hazards in that a flexible cord with plug, again, abbreviations here. This is a formal legal document, you have spelling issues here with this. Flexible cord with plug into the grain dryer monitor located directly in front of the grain dryer. The flexible cord was used as a substitute for permanent wiring, in that the flexible cord was reused continuously for a period of exceeding 90 days. 6,913, citation 1, item 16. This was a Hazcom violation, 1910-1200, labeling, labeled tagged by marking containers, 11,524, and here's the willful one, the big one. Simple serious, 1992-72, J2I, the employer did not immediately remove any fugitive grain dust accumulations whenever they exceeded 1/8 of an inch, or 0.32 centimeters, again, 0.32 centimeters, come on guys, come on, 0.32 centimeters. That priority, housekeeping areas, resume to the housekeeping program for grain elevators, and 161,323, citation 2, item 2, willful serious, the employer did not promptly correct dust collection systems in the grain handling facility for malfunctioning or operating with the whole designed efficiency, 161,323 with that, but anyway, those are all proposed for a grand total of $536,965 in proposed penalties, right? With that, and here, and here, let's add a sound effect in there. Very, very good. Very, or do we need this one? Okay, here we have another one, October 3rd, out of Tampa, Florida, rather than address the 15 existing safety and health hazards, cited by federal workplace safety inspectors in July 2023, a Nellis Park vote manufacturer continues to jeopardize the safety and health of some workers according to a follow-up instruction, so a follow-up, so July 2023, right? They came, now they had a follow-up, right? They were turned in March 2024 and discovered the company had not corrected hazardous conditions, including failing to institute a workplace respiratory protection program, and procedures for workers required to wear tight-fitting respirators and failing to develop and maintain a written Hazcom program, right? So here we have failure to abate, and this looks like this is going to be a little bit something different, this is going to be some 1910-134 and 1915 shipyard here with this, so let's see, again, I don't read this usually beforehand, here, hold on. They're also raking a lot of leaves today, so I am dry. Sorry for all the drinking of the water here. Citation 1, item 1, type of violation, serious, the employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment that were free of recognized hazards, so here we had again a tree crane was not periodically inspected at least once every 12 months, and that the Gantry crane used by employees to lift boats and boat components during assembly activities had signs of corrosion and/or damage, $4,610. Remember, the shipyard industry is a targeted industry by OSHA. Citation 1, item 2, here, hold on, hold on, okay, category 1 or 2 flammable liquids are category 3 flammable, like a flash point below 100 degrees Fahrenheit, were dispensed into containers without the nozzle and container being electronically interconnected, they were not bonded, which means you could have a static electric discharge creating a fire, $4,610 citation 2, item 1, 1910-134, the employer did not provide a medical evaluation to determine the employee's ability to use the respirator before the employee was fit tested. Again, if you need this type of support, give us a call, 845-269-5772, I just arranged this one on Wednesday for a client, and it costs a hell of a lot less than $7,374. Citation 2, item 2 is a repeat series, so all of these were, first one was series, second one is repeat series, third one is citation 2, item 2 repeat series, no fit testing, $7,374. And you, item 3, repeat series, no has common training, $9,219. Citation 3, item 1, no advisory, no training on the paper. So on appendix D of the respiratory protection standard, we're going to go over to the camera first. I have to point this out because I would be remiss if I did not point this out, let me get the web page up here. So we're going to go take a quick commercial break here, and I'm going to bring this up on the respiratory protection standard here. Hold on. It's an unpredictable world. One voice rises above the chaos. Meet Jim Pozzo, a seasoned safety expert who's navigated through some of the most dangerous scenarios from anthrax, explosive cleanups, disasters, and numerous environmental cleanups and live to tell the tale. Now he's bringing his wealth of knowledge, insights and experiences to you through safety wars. From workplace hazards to the hidden dangers in your own home, Jim covers it all with his engaging storytelling. Safety Wars isn't just a podcast, it's your guide to a safer world. Join Jim Pozzo and become part of the Safety Wars Revolution, available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and wherever you get your podcasts and videos. Safety World, your safety is our mission. Alright so here we have appendix D here, alright let's zoom in a little bit here. Now, alright, appendix D to 1910-134 respirators are an effective method of protection against designated hazards improperly selected and worn. Respirator use is encouraging when exposures are below the exposure limit to provide an additional level of comfort and protection for workers. However if a respirator is used improperly or not kept clean, the respirator itself can become a hazard to the worker. Sometimes workers may wear respirators to avoid exposures to hazards, even if the amount of hazardous substances does not exceed limits set by OSHA standards. If your employer provides respiratory respirators for your voluntary use or if you provide your own respirator, you need to take certain precautions to be sure that the respirator itself does not present a hazard. You should do the following. 1. Read and heed all instructions provided by the manufacturer on use, maintenance, clearing and cleaning care and warnings regarding the respirator's limitations. 2. Choose respirators certified for use to protect against the containment of concern. 3. Do not wear your respirator into atmospheres containing contaminants for which your respirator is not designed to protect against. For example, a respirator designed to filter dust particles will not protect you against gases, vapors or very small solid particles of fumes or smoke. Keep track of your respirators so that you do not mistakenly use someone else's. So I mention this here, because how do I manage this? There are people, especially since COVID, that this is what they wear. It doesn't matter what job they're on, it doesn't matter what they're doing, they are wearing respirators, or the imitation respirators. Meaning non-die-age respirators, no, I always still joke. We have a virus so deadly, so dangerous that we are wearing face coverings. Really? Is that deadly, why aren't you wearing like a respirator, dude? But I digress, I don't want to relive that. It's very frustrating to me. So let's mosey on over. So that's what that is. So what do I do? I print out the Appendix D, I put a little mark on there, get my pen, I write down name, signature date. That's what I do. Name, signature, date, and employee signs and if it's voluntary use. Again, they did not cite them here, but I can see that being an issue. So here we have 33,187 and we got to remember to download that for our shipyard clients out there. That's what's going on out there. So let's see what else is going on with this, right? Now, let's finish up with this, U.S. Department of Labor reminds employers of responsibility to pay clean up recovery workers, proper wages, and Helen's, Helen's aftermath. As states across the southeast address Hurricane Helen's impacts, the U.S. Department of Labor reminds employers and disaster recovery and their workers that even when disaster strikes worker protection supply. Now, this is my question for you because you can look back at previous disasters where oceans basically goes into an enforcement to a compliance assistance organization with that. You don't believe me? We can show you the press releases on some of them. And what happens is a lot of times, and I'm going to bet some money on here. I'm not money, I'll count that, I'll count that 50 cents on there. People come out of the road, out of the woodwork to work on these disaster management jobs, the disaster response jobs. They may be even the victims here, you know, your job disappears because it gets washed away. What ends up happening here is that these companies go and they think that they're going to pay people as independent contractors where they're going to pay people off the books. Real bad idea, pay people legitimate wages and everything. This actually happened to a company that I know of. They just decided to pull a fast one and say, "We're going to pay everybody as an independent contractor, 1099 employee." And then it commenced to telling these folks when they had to show up through a work. Guess what? They are now no longer independent contractors if you're telling them what time to show up to work. And at the end, they paid these folks and then at the end of the job, this is a golf oil cleanup, people have been working nine months, right, at the time it was 26 weeks, I believe, that yeah, to work, they worked the 26 weeks, now they're eligible for unemployment. They get laid off, end of the job, laid off, from no fault of their own. They try to collect unemployment because they've been working. And guess what? The employer did not pay into unemployment. So what the hell do you think happens? They say, "Well, they start calling and doing an investigation." And what happened was the employer ended up paying a quarter million dollars principal, not interest, quarter million dollars in back taxes. Big issue here. So beware of this stuff, all right? So again, they kind of make sure that they maintain accurate records and pay workers when wages are due. Workers are particularly vulnerable during times of crisis, employers that fail to comply with federal labor laws cause them and their families additional harm, like the communities stricken by hurricanes and other disasters workers are especially vulnerable after the fact. U.S. Department of Labor responds quickly to protect workers and ensure they are paid all of their legally earned wages and benefits, explain wage on our regional administrator, Juan Korea in Atlanta. At the same time, we stand ready to provide workers, provide employers with the information guidance they need to stay in compliance. The vision is committed to strong enforcement of workplace protections for disaster recovery workers, and they want to include the states affected by Hurricane Helene, Helena, right? So big deal here guys, can't be doing this crap. Let's go to our next commercial break here. Have you listened or watched the safety warship? It does scream live on the radio and on the screamer e-mers that we have. So if you have not taken a listen to Jim Bosel 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 going on. It's definitely will take some deep dives and some information that you might be interested in. Okay, that's what I have here. As soon as there's any more information on this long Sherman strike or anything else here before we sign off, because I mean stuff's going on and I mean, especially the stuff in Israel. I tell you, I want to do a Saturday program apart from this. No, not on the network here with all this political stuff going on. I mean it's incredible here with what's going on politically, what's going on throughout the country here. So this is what I want you to do. I don't want anybody to go out there. No, I always call for calm, reason, logic and everything else. Go out there and go nuts with the disaster stuff. Again, as I say, if you really want to get completely compliant, ready in a hurry, it takes about two, maybe three weeks to get prepared. I don't think that's really necessary, prioritize, assess, analyze and act. The government recommends four days of food. Maybe you want to concentrate on that. Maybe we already have that, food and water. The government said, you know, I have to be ready to go to a factory, get all your paperwork together, get all your medications together. All that stuff, do all of that beforehand, all right? And take your time. You don't need to panic here all the time. That's all I have to say here and I'm going to attempt to be here on a Friday. Tomorrow, we'll see how it goes, but you got three programs this week. I try to do a three programs minimum, you got three. So we're going to try to do a Friday and then one of these days we're going to do a political one. And I tell you what we're going to see and definitely afterwards we got some things planned here, and we're going to be talking about this, drop working on details here with people. For safety wars, this is gimple's, good night. 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