OSHA Inspection: DEPTO HACIENDA COLECTURIA DE CEIBA

Issued

2002-06-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2002-07-23 00:00:00

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 Office of the Collector, located 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 Colecturia de Ceiba, localizada 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

2002-06-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2002-07-09 00:00:00

Issued

2002-06-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2002-07-09 00:00:00