DEDEDO, Guam\u2014The U.S. Department of Labor will send experts from its\u00a0Occupational Safety and Health Administration\u00a0to areas of Guam hardest hit by Typhoon Mawar to protect the safety and health of recovery workers as part of the federal response and recovery effort after the storm struck the island in late May.<\/p>\n
OSHA will deploy workplace safety and health experts to Guam to identify and eliminate serious hazards and help prevent injuries among employers and workers. The agency\u2019s outreach will focus on exposures to heat illness, and fall, struck-by, crushing and electrical hazards as well as the risks of carbon monoxide poisoning when using temporary electrical generators.<\/p>\n
\u201cOSHA safety and health experts on the ground in Guam will provide outreach and technical assistance needed to help people as they begin recovery work in areas most affected by Typhoon Mawar,\u201d said OSHA\u2019s regional administrator James Wulff in San Francisco. \u201cPeople involved in storm recovery and cleanup must follow proper procedures to protect themselves from the many risks that exist after a natural disaster.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
As part of the recovery process, OSHA has temporarily suspended programmed and planned enforcement inspections in heavily impacted areas. The agency, however, retains the authority to perform inspections related to fatalities, catastrophic incidents, employee complaints, incidents involving life-altering injuries and where employers repeatedly expose employees to serious hazards during cleanup and recovery.<\/p>\n
Employers and employees in Guam may call OSHA\u2019s toll-free hotline at 800-321-OSHA (6742), the Honolulu Area Office at 808-541-2680, or go to the\u00a0OSHA Hurricane Preparedness and Response website\u00a0for further assistance. Additionally,\u00a0OSHA\u2019s\u00a0On-Site Consultation Program\u00a0offers no-cost and confidential occupational safety and health services\u00a0to small and medium-sized businesses and employers can contact the Guam Onsite Consultation Program at 671-300-4618 or the CNMI OSHA Onsite Consultation Program at 670-287-7531 to schedule a visit.\u00a0(OSHA)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DEDEDO, Guam\u2014The U.S. Department of Labor will send experts from its\u00a0Occupational Safety and Health Administration\u00a0to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":393108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[55,8220],"class_list":["post-393116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-health-2","tag-usdol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}