OSHA Inspection: DF LOCAL CEIBA

Issued

Jun 25, 2002

Abate by

Jul 22, 2002

General-duty citation text

Section 6(a) of the Puerto Rico Occupational Safety and Health Act:  The
employer did not
furnish employment and a place of employment which were free from
recognized hazards that
were causing or likely to cause death or physical harm to employees in
that employees were
exposed to:
Seccion 6(a) de la Ley de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo de Puerto Rico:
El
patrono no
proveyo empleo y un sitio de empleo libre de riesgos reconocidos que esten
causando o que
puedan causar muerte o dano fisico a los empleados, por cuanto empleados
estaban expuestos
a:
At the Ceiba Regional Office of the Family Department at the Ceiba
Government Center:
The employer did not develop a trimester total quality maintenance program
to set up a
good standard operation conditions, filters, condensers and serpentines
cleanliness, which
caused an increase the relative humidity of the two (2) air conditioned
systems, with
deterioration of the ventilation ducts and the isolation material which is
been expelled
through the diffusers; exposing the employees to the hazard of diseases of
the upper
respiratory tract and hypersensitivity reactions due to the antigenic
nature of the isolation
material.
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable abatement method to
correct this
hazard is to start doing strategies and get underway engineering controls
to replace the
ventilating ducts with new isolation material, and to develop and set up
and set up a
trimester maintenance program.
En la Oficina Regional de Ceiba del Departamento de la Familia, en el
Centro de
Gobierno de Ceiba: El patrono no desarrollo un programa de mantenimiento
de calidad
total, trimestral, para establecer un estandard de condiciones de
operacion conveniente,
limpieza de filtros, condensadores y serpentinas, lo cual causo un
incremento en la
humedad relativa en los dos (2) sistemas acondicionadores de aire, con
deterioro de los
conductos de ventilacion y del material aislante, el cual es expelido
atraves de los
difusores; exponiendo a los empleados al riesgo de enfermedades del tracto
respiratorio
superior y de reacciones de hipersensitividad debido a la naturaleza
antigenica del
material aislante.
Entre otros metodos, un metodo accesible y aceptable para corregir este
riesgo es poner
en practica estrategias e iniciar controles de ingenieria para remplazar
los conductos de
ventilacion con nuevo material aislante, y desarrollar y poner en practica
un programa
de mantenimiento trimestral.

Issued

Jun 25, 2002

Abate by

Jul 2, 2002

Issued

Jun 25, 2002

Abate by

Jul 2, 2002

Issued

Jun 25, 2002

Abate by

Jul 2, 2002