GAO finds dangerous conditions in poultry, meatpacking continue
The General Accounting Office (GAO) publicly expelled a report yesterday on workplace health and reserve conditions in a ornithology industry. While observant a decrease in damage and illness rates from 2004 to 2013, a news highlights a problem of underreporting and unsound information collection. The GAO news includes 3 recommendations for Executive Action:
Recommendation: To strengthen DOL’s efforts to safeguard employers strengthen a reserve and health of workers during beef and ornithology plants, a Secretary of Labor should approach a Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health, operative together with a Commissioner of Labor Statistics as appropriate, to rise and exercise a cost-effective process for entertainment some-more finish information on musculoskeletal disorders.
Agency Affected: Department of LaborRecommendation: To rise a improved bargain of beef and ornithology sanitation workers’ injuries and illnesses, a Secretary of Labor should approach a Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health and a Commissioner of Labor Statistics to investigate how they could frequently accumulate information on damage and illness rates among sanitation workers in a beef and ornithology industry.
Agency Affected: Department of Labor
Recommendation: To rise a improved bargain of beef and ornithology sanitation workers’ injuries and illnesses, a Secretary of Health and Human Services should approach a Director of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to have a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) control a investigate of a injuries and illnesses these workers experience, including their causes and how they are reported. Given a hurdles to gaining entrance to this population, NIOSH might wish to coordinate with a Occupational Safety and Health Administration to rise ways to trigger this study.
Agency Affected: Department of Health and Human Services
The news follows a recent release from Oxfam America focusing on a ornithology industry’s rejection of lavatory breaks to workers.