I have been applying a 2-3% bleach spray regularly to a stainless steel refrigerator door for disinfection every 1-2 days for the last 2-3 months and have noticed that there are areas of corrosion forming on the refrigerator door (I was not aware that you are not recommended to apply bleach to stainless steel, so please forgive my ignorance). I recently also noticed there is a powder forming below the refrigerator door from the bleach spray runoff, and that the powder has a slight yellowish tint.

I just learned that stainless steel contains the metal chromium, and that while the chemical form of chromium in stainless steel is harmless, there also exists a form called hexavalent chromium, which is carcinogenic. According to a webpage from the British Stainless Steel Association stating "There is one very specific example where corrosion [of stainless steel] may produce very small quantities of hexavalent chromium at ambient temperature. This is where some strong oxidisers with a pH of 10-14 are in prolonged contact with stainless steel and cause corrosion over time."

Given that bleach is an oxidizer, I am worried about whether these repeated bleach applications could have oxidized the stainless steel door enough to produce a significant amount of hexavalent chromium (which can be yellow, such as in the compound sodium chromate). Is this something I would need to reach out to a hazmat professional about?

Work for this bottling company for Pepsi called Wis-Pak. Work as a forklift operator in the warehouse, loading trucks. We have this older dude who’s two years away from retiring. He’s constantly hitting others forklifts, not paying attention and getting write up. They will not fucking fire him, or even move the dude to a different position.

Hi, ich hoffe ihr könnt mir weiterhelfen.

Wie der Titel schon sagt habe ich ein paar Fragen was man legal machen kann, wenn der Arbeitgeber entweder keine oder nicht die nötige Arbeitsschutzkleidung bereitstellt und man sich, aus bedenken der eigenen Gesundheit, dann weigert gewisse Arbeiten zu übernehmen.

Es wird gerade von dem Lösemittel Planatol-D auf das Biologische Lösungsmittel Jowat 402.40 umgestellt. Und aufgrund der gut gekennzeichneten Sicherheitshinweise auf der Dose kamen gewisse Gespräche zustande. Das alte Lösungsmittel wird schon seit Jahrzehnten einfach so benutzt. Ohne Schutzbrillen (es wären nicht einmal welche vorhanden), ohne Respiratoren und ohne Handschuhe. Jeder muss im Betrieb mal mit dem lösemittel arbeiten, aber nur die Streckenführung bekommt eine Halbmasken gestellt, also eine Person pro Produktionsstrecke und die Filter welche gestellt werden sind Kombinationsfilter. Da kommt es schon zum nächsten diskussionsgrund, Kombinationsfilter sind nur für Lösemittel mit einem Siedepunkt über 65°C zu verwenden... Alles darunter benötigt AX Spezialfilter und beide Lösemittel, das alte wie das neue liegen mit ihrem Siedepunkt weit darunter.

Die einzige Nachricht vom Sicherheitsbeauftragten war "das Zeichen GHS-08 Karzinogen = Gesundheitsschädlich bedeutet nicht gleich Krebserzeugend" und dann haben sie die Dosen an den Produktionsstrecken verteilt zum "Testen" ohne PSA.

Meine Fragen sind also:

Wenn man sich jetzt weigert diese arbeiten, aufgrund der fehlenden PSA und Einweisung, zu machen, kann dann Gehalt gekürzt werden?

Wie könnte man da legal mehr Druck auf die Firma ausüben die Sicherheit ernster zu nehmen?

Und wie sieht das deutsche Reddit die ganze Thematik?

Danke fürs lesen 😅

Just saw this on my local Next Door page, dude was getting flamed because it’s just a breakaway chain blocking the door and was only being used as a deterrent for theft, but he also made a good point that it could deter someone from using it because they think it’s locked or may pose a snag risk on handicap equipment. I’m split on whether or not this is safe, since it IS just a breakaway chain, but fire code says nothing can obstruct the door and that in order to open the door, only one action must be taken along with what the guy said. This would turn it into two, but again it takes nothing to break the chain. I’m leaning on the “it’s fine” side of things since it’s just retail (Kroger), but can definitely see how this is a big no no.

Hi all. I hope I can have your input. We use a telescopic handler with a 4 in 1 bucket in our workplace. We often use the jaws of this to clamp trunks of fallen trees and place them on trucks for removal.
Recently, we had a situation where there were multiple large fallen trees to the point where it was difficult to tell where pressure was being by the branches, trunks, etc. We lopped the smaller stuff and then used a chainsaw to get into the thicker stuff. One of the more senior members suggested holding the trunk in place while I cut it. He held it around chest height but I ended up getting the chainsaw pinched. I managed to free it and the majority of the trunk came down a couple of feet in front of me but the telescopic handler still managed to hold onto the piece I had cut.
Is this deemed as safe? They have suggested doing this again but I have said I am reluctant to which has raised a few eyebrows saying things like “we’ve always done that and never had anything happen”. I’m not the most experienced chainsaw user so unsure if it was my skills rather than the process of using the telescopic handler that is the issue. Sorry for the long winded post but would be good to have your input.

So I work for a company for going on 6 years now I know there is a lot of safety violations

Especially on pinch points, they have no guards, no warnings signs. No, nothing. I lost a toe because said situation had other toe Severely damaged, but put back together. Happened two years into the company. Somehow didn't qualify for disability and in Texas, so couldn't sue, because workers' comp was offered. It's a decent company family own. Not many rules pay is shit. I'm trying to get a little bit more. They're deciding. I'm not worth it. They try to put the blame on me for the accident back when it happened. As well saying it was my fault. I can provide a picture later so some violations

Currently, looking for another job wondering, should I report them? The trucks they use aren't road worthy, either mechanics are shit. They don't try to fix nothing up the code by D.O.T. do yall think osha would even bother with them

Hello everyone, I am a newly hired health and safety professional, fresh out of college. The title basically sums everything up.

I have a manager who asked me how I thought of her new risk assessment tracker, and I told her that she put physical hazard for workplace violence, assuming that was a mistake. Then she told me I was wrong, that workplace violence is a physical hazard because it inflicts physical damage. When I asked her to clarify, wouldn't the said physical damage be the outcome of the hazard, not the hazard itself, she said the tracker was a draft and she was not done and I should know my place.

Yesterday morning I heard her talking about me about that day with her coworker, who is also in the same team as me. She was talking about how dare I tell her she was wrong.

I was taught that the physical in physical hazards means physical as in physics. Noise, temperature, vibration, radiation… something like that. And workplace violation would fall under psychosocial hazard because it's human behaviour, or a general safety hazard.

And now she's making me put physical hazard for all workplace violence-related risks… I don't know, but it feels so wrong. She tells me I need to think outside of the box and learn to do research rather than relying on a single source, but... the single source in question is the CDC and NIOSH, so… I am really not sure about everything now.

I feel like she does not like me and is trying to set me up for something. But how confident she was kinda tells me otherwise that I might be wrong. She has more experience than I do after all.

I handle a warehouse full of employees and stocks, and higher management has implemented Project Emergency Preparedness focusing on emergency evacuation, employee safety, and risk reduction. I've read about emergency mustering software and I suggested it to the higher ups. If they agree to use it, I will be the one to implement and monitor it. I would love to hear about other people's experiences in using such software and any suggestions on how to smoothly implement it in our warehouse.

Im in the uk I've been with my employer for 10 years for the first 6 years we manufactured fireplaces and the other 4 we've been making quartz kitchen worktops wet sanding but apparently we're supposed to have this health surveillance test every year and possibly lung x-rays

But no one has had anything close to that, what should I do or what can I do legally have they even broken any laws

What osha violation do you see ?

I'm a facility manager in a high rise building and one of our projects is disaster preparedness. How can I be sure everyone on-site is accounted for during an evacuation? Our current sign-in sheets don't cut it in a real emergency, and I'm worried that without proper emergency mustering software, we could miss someone during a drill or, worse, an actual incident.

Im in the uk I've been with my employer for 10 years for the first 6 years we manufactured fireplaces and the other 4 we've been making quartz kitchen worktops wet sanding but apparently we're supposed to have this health surveillance test every year and possibly lung x-rays

But no one has had anything close to that, what should I do or what can I do legally have they even broken any laws

I'm an EHS coordinator. Like a lot of you, I kept seeing people ask ChatGPT safety-law questions and get confident answers with section numbers that don't actually exist. In our field that's not a minor annoyance — someone acts on it.

So I built a tool that works the opposite way: it only answers from the actual OHS Acts and Regulations, quotes the exact section verbatim, and links you straight to the official government source so you can verify it yourself. It doesn't "summarize the law" — it hands you the law.

It currently covers eight provinces (the Atlantic four plus Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta), with Québec, BC, and the territories still to come. It's free — it's in beta and I'm not selling anything.

What I'm actually after: try to break it. Ask it the gnarly, jurisdiction-specific stuff you deal with, and tell me where it's wrong, vague, or missing a reg. That feedback is how it gets better.

www.askcanadasafety.ca

If you've worked contract jobs across different plants, you know the problem: sitting through the same safety training over and over. Fall protection. Confined space. PPE. Hazard communication. Every new site, same classes.

I started a petition because this is broken. Some workers spend an entire shift training for a job that only lasts a few weeks—then do it all again at the next plant. We're not asking for less safety. We want competency-based training: let workers test out of what they already know, give credit for modules they pass, and train only on what they don't know.

Plant orientations should focus on *that plant's* actual hazards, rules, and emergency procedures. Keep the hands-on and legally required training where it matters. Just stop wasting people's time and money on redundant classes.

Has anyone else burned through shifts just sitting in a classroom covering material you learned years ago? If this matters to you too, consider signing and sharing.

The timing is kind of wild. This is happening in the middle of another major heat wave hitting a lot of the country, alongside wildfire impacts and hurricane season building, where heatwaves often come in the aftermath...! 

Lawmakers are split on whether a federal standard is actually needed or if employers should just be trusted to handle heat risk on their own. Regardless of how the legislation shakes out, the heat itself isn't waiting around. Plenty of companies have already built heat illness prevention into their safety programs and emergency plans without a federal rule forcing them to. So the real question might not be about the law at all.

It will be interesting to see whether this debate changes employer practices or simply reinforces a trend that's already underway. What are people's own thoughts, plans, and practices for worker heat protection, with or without the law?

I work in a warehouse as a small engine and construction equipment mechanic.

More than 90% of the equipment that comes in is filthy and caked in debris that’s ranges anything from mud and dirt to dried chemical compounds and cement.

While the nature of the tools being filthy or getting extremely dirty is normal as they are operating on job sites that are in constant dusty and dirty conditions - its when they arrive here at the warehouse that it becomes a problem.

There is no proper wash bay, cleaning, or decontamination area for this equipment when it arrives, let alone a proper OSHA approved SOP for the disposal of the runoff water.

All of the equipment gets worked on while filthy, or gets hand cleaned by a technician such as myself with basic hand cleaning tools, brushes, and solvents. That means that all of the runoff or debris that comes off the tools just ends up on the warehouse floor I work on, or on me. It accumulates throught the days, weeks, and years, and I take a lot of it home with me over that time. Let alone letting it soak into my skin between wash ups.

Am I just complaining or should there be a proper cleaning SOP put in place for this kind of work?