replace old ones with the fiberglass exposed. She gets splinters from the fiberglass on her hands and arms from handling these trays. It causes a rash that is uncomfortable and embarassing. She's a server in the food industry so it can't be healthy for her or her customers. Other employees have the same problem and they've all complained to management who says there's nothing wrong with the trays, the rashes are not their problem, thus they refuse to replace them. Anybody have any suggestions on where this can be reported? Please don't offer "quit the job". These employees are all students trying to make a living while getting an education. They deserve to be treated better on the job. Can OSHA help in a situation like this?
2006-08-23 06:39:23 · 5 answers · asked by LARA N 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Skin Conditions
OSHA can help because the rashes are an occupational illness. If an employee goes to a doctor for treatment of a rash received because of an exposure at work, and a prescription mediine is issued it becomes a recordable accident.
So the employees need to tell their employer that they need to see a doctor to treat the rash as it also falls under workers' comp. If the doctor prescibes an antibitotic cream, you have a recordable accident and a valid OSHA complaint.
However, since this is food related, the health department can also help as any food contact surface has to be impervious and able to be sanitized. Rough open surfaces rearely are. A boliogocal swab on the broken surfaces could reveal bacteria, a situation generally frowned upon in the food handling industry.
2006-08-23 06:50:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ask all of them to visit the company's doctor if don't have a company doctor then see any doctor. After consulting the doctor, the result from the doctor's point of view should show that they all got similar rash which is cost from the tray. There after report the matter to the school in charge of the student. Show them the doctors report, explained that students have to visit the doctor because of the trays. From here request that the school Representative visit the establishment and check the tray themselves. If the school finds that there is a problem then they should highlight the matter. At the same time this will work only if the others who are not student have the same problem.
2006-08-23 06:49:50 · answer #2 · answered by White Wings F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fiberglass Trays
2016-11-09 22:57:30 · answer #3 · answered by bagnaschi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tell your daughter to use gloves, the kind that they sell for washing dishes, and if her employer wants her to take them off, tell him that it's doctor prescribed untill they replace the old trays, maybe that will embarass him enough to change them, and if not, at least your daughter won't get so many rashes or splinters.
Tell her to buy really ugly and colorful gloves.
2006-08-23 06:49:38 · answer #4 · answered by Princess B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Philosophy and human morality and reasoning serve for making a better world, and a better understanding of the world. Beyond human reasoning nothing is actually considered right or wrong. We humans have considered many things to be unmoral or inhuman as an attempt to give everyone a better quality of life. It's pretty much like we have modified our morality through out time.
2016-03-16 21:53:02 · answer #5 · answered by Ilsa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if those trays were to "mysteriously" disappear, they'd HAVE to get new trays. If someone were to start sneaking a few a day out of the facility...
2006-08-23 08:30:44 · answer #6 · answered by Whoops, is this your spleeen? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would def. report them, maybe have your daughter file a complaint with the better business bureau.
2006-08-23 06:45:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe OSHA can step in. Contact them and complain.
2006-08-23 06:46:40 · answer #8 · answered by C K Platypus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋