Posted Nov 12, 2019, 11:22 AM UTC
OSHA holla
Angry Upton Sinclair noises.
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Yikes, that doesn't sound safe at all. US employers must provide a workplace free of recognized hazards. No job is worth your safety and long term house. Your lungs shouldn't be feeling bad while dealing with these agents. They're so sensitive, you could be upping your risk for lung cancer or something. At least get a copy of the SDS sheets for the cleaners to look at the risks!
This is the first time I could hardly breath with the caustic chemicals, we recently switched chemical providers and this new one is way more stronger. We have SDS sheets right next our chemical room and it's available to anyone who wants to review it, on top of that there's an abridged copy of it tied to our equipment we use to spray these chemicals. (Truth be told the chemicals aren't even *that* strong, and we always dilute before using, it takes a special kinda dumb to not water down acid before you go sticking your hand in it).
Finally, they do take safety really seriously, if you get any chemical on your body you are instructed to immediately flush it off, I chose on my own to not immediately do this when I get it on my hands and whatnot, so the risk is mine. If I feel the chemicals are too strong to breath I can easily mention that to my manager and she could probably order some masks or I could just go buy my own so I know it's always there.
The biggest risk with this job is actually the food processing equipment, if it runs while you're inside cleaning it you gon' have a bad time. Luckily we are encouraged to refuse to clean something if we don't feel safe and I have before, usually when it involves electricity or blades.
It's impossible to have this workplace free of recognized hazards but they do give us everything possible and legally required to ensure those hazards don't hurt us.
Bullshit. Take your health seriously. If it's doing this to your hands what is it doing to the rest of your body? Do you think your lung alveoli can just peel off and regrow or something?
Thicker gloves.
A positive pressure hood with externally supplied air.
A radically different degree of risk tolerance.
I mean to be completely fair it was only peeling off dead skin, it stopped peeling once there was none left.
Worse thing I've done to my lungs here is accidentally inhale the fumes from like 15 ounces of extremely diluted acid and hydrogen peroxide mixture, after a day I was fine though
okay the extremely corrosive hell fluid aside how does it feel like to peel that off?
Actually didn't hurt at all, the skin underneath was all sticky lol.
If it’s eating through your gloves, then you need a different type of glove.
Yikes I would get. Thick gloves
We actually recently switched to an even stronger caustic cleaner which I used today and I couldn't even breath well.
Luckily manager said the plant wants us to stop using it from now on we're using only industrial soap which is harmless to people.
Thank God that's cancer waiting to happen I would see a doctor
Well yes and no, if this soap is shit I can't use the caustic as a crutch to dissolve shit I miss cleaning.
But yeah be able to breath and not have my face sting is gonna be nice.