OSHA Inspection: AURORA VOCATIONAL SERVICES - AURORA DAY SERVICES

Issued

Jun 19, 2013

Abate by

Aug 27, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,100 · Current $1,470 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): Employers shall develop, implement, and maintain at each workplace, a written hazard communication program which at least describes how the criteria specified in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this section for labels and other forms of warning, safety data sheets, and employee information and training will be met, and which also includes the following:  (a) Throughout the facility; the employer has not developed, implement or maintained a written hazard communication program.

Issued

Jun 19, 2013

Abate by

Aug 27, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(1): Chemical manufacturers and importers shall obtain or develop a safety data sheet for each hazardous chemical they produce or import. Employers shall have a safety data sheet in the workplace for each hazardous chemical which they use.    (a) Throughout the facility; the employer failed to obtain safety data sheets, such as, but not limited to ODO-BAN.

Issued

Jun 19, 2013

Abate by

Aug 27, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8): The employer shall maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and shall ensure that they are readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they are in their work area(s). (Electronic access and other alternatives to maintaining paper copies of the safety data sheets are permitted as long as no barriers to immediate employee access in each workplace are created by such options.)  (a) Throughout the facility; the employer does not maintain safety data sheets nor do they ensure the safety data sheets are readily accessible to employees during each work shift, such as, but not limited to ODO-BAN.

Issued

Jun 19, 2013

Abate by

Aug 27, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employers shall provide employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment, and whenever a new chemical hazard the employees have not previously been trained about is introduced into their work area. Information and training may be designed to cover categories of hazards (e.g., flammability, carcinogenicity) or specific chemicals. Chemical-specific information must always be available through labels and safety data sheets.  (a) Throughout the facility; the employer does not provide effective information or training to the employees about hazardous chemicals in the work area.

Issued

Jun 19, 2013

Abate by

Jun 25, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1904.30(a): Basic requirement. You must keep a separate OSHA 300 Log for each establishment that is expected to be in operation for one year or longer.  (a) Aurora Vocational Services, 3540 Jeffers Road, Eau Claire, WI. 54703; maintained one OSHA 300 Log with multiple business establishments for 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Issued

Jun 19, 2013

Abate by

Sep 18, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.95(d)(1): When information indicates that any employee's exposure may equal or exceed an 8-hour time-weighted average of 85 decibels, the employer shall develop and implement a monitoring program.  (a)  Woodworking area; the employer failed to develop and implement a noise monitoring program as indicated by SLM readings at 93 dBA.

Issued

Jun 19, 2013

Abate by

Jun 25, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1030(d)(4)(ii)(A): Contaminated work surfaces shall be decontaminated with an appropriate disinfectant after completion of procedures; immediately or as soon as feasible when surfaces are overtly contaminated or after any spill of blood or other potentially infectious materials; and at the end of the work shift if the surface may have become contaminated since the last cleaning.  (a) Throughout the facility; the employer did not ensure the ODO-BAN disinfectant (EPA #66243-1) was appropriate to properly disinfect facility operations.