OSHA Inspection: THE CHURCH AIDE OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE CITY OF SARATOGA SPRINGS

Issued

2019-04-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-05-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $5683.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.157(g)(2): The employer did not provide hands on fire extinguisher training required in paragraph (g)(1) of this section upon initial employment and at least annually thereafter:   (a) On and before 1/10/2019, at the facility, for the employees that are required to use the portable fire extinguishers in the event of a small fire, the employer did not provide hands on training.

Issued

2019-04-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-05-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9472.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1030(c)(1)(iv): The Exposure Control Plan was not reviewed and updated at least annually and whenever necessary to reflect new or modified tasks and procedures which affect occupational exposure and to reflect new or revised employee positions with occupational exposure:   (a) On and before 1/10/2019, at facility, for the employees that could have occupational exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials.  Employer did not review and update on an annual basis it's exposure control plan.  Last update was documented in 2016.

Issued

2019-04-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-05-16 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9472.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1030(c)(1)(iv)(B): The review and update of the exposure control plan did not document annually consideration and implementation of appropriate commercially available and effective safer medical devices designed to eliminate or minimize occupational exposure:   (a) On and before 1/10/2019, at facility, for the employees that could have occupational exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials.  Employer did not implement safer medical devices such as, but not limited to, retractable needles.

Issued

2019-04-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-04-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9472.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1030(d)(2)(vii)(A): Contaminated needles and other contaminated sharps were bent, recapped, or removed:   (a) On or about 12/31/2018, at facility, for the LPN who was stuck with a used lancet.  Employer did not implement effective work practice controls and had employees use needles that get recapped.

Issued

2019-04-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-04-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9472.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1030(h)(5)(i): The employer did not establish and maintain a sharps injury log for the recording of percutaneous injuries from contaminated sharps:  (a) On or about 12/31/2018, at facility, for the LPN who was stuck with a used lancet.  Employer did not establish and maintain a sharps injury log to record injuries associated with bloodborne pathogens.

Issued

2019-04-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-04-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1895.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1904.8(a): Work-related needlestick injuries or cuts from sharp objects contaminated with another person's blood or potentially infectious material were not entered on the OSHA 300 Log as a privacy case:   (a) On or about 12/31/2018, at the facility, for the LPN stuck with a used lancet.  Employer did not establish and maintain OSHA 300 logs to record privacy case for injuries associated with bloodborne pathogens.