Location: Massachusetts
I work for a company that is contracted out to run the medical and psychiatric aspects of one of the state's psychiatric hospitals for the criminally insane. I work in a patient-service and therapeutic role.
There have been several incidents in the last few months where there have been moderate amounts of blood / feces / vomit splattered or smeared on walls and floors (and windows... and ceilings... and in the refrigerator... ). Our lone supervisor has instructed us to "just clean it up" and to just "put some gloves on, I don't get what the big deal is."
We have informed him that this is against OSHA guidelines, as we have received ZERO biohazard clean-up training. This did not stop him from telling us to clean up these situations anyways.
This week, we came into work to find this letter, and the instructions to "read & sign". We are being told that it certifies us to clean up biohazardous situations.
So... is this a thing? Is this one-page, poorly-formatted document enough to make somebody have to clean brain-matter off of an elevator door or entrails off of razor wire?
(No, those last two things don't actually happen. Just have a flair for the dramatic.)
What recourse do we non-union employees have at our disposal to defend us here?
Submitted August 14, 2017 at 12:21AM by Hannarks_the_Hunter http://ift.tt/2uATA2q legaladvice
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