Federal regulators today announced new measures to protect 2.5 million temporary workers in America amid evidence such laborers are hurt more often than regular employees.
In December, the Center for Public Integrity and WBEZ/Chicago Public Media highlighted the case of temporary worker Carlos Centeno, who was badly burned in a Chicago-area factory in November 2011 and died three weeks later. Occupational Safety and Health Administration records obtained by the Center concluded that Centeno's bosses refused to call 911 as his skin peeled and he screamed for help.
OSHA said today it had sent a memo to regional administrators "directing field inspectors to assess whether employers who use temporary workers are complying with their responsibilities" under the law.
"Inspectors will use a newly created code in their information system to denote when temporary workers are exposed to safety and health violations," the agency said in a press release. "Additionally, they will assess whether temporary workers received required training in a language and vocabulary they could understand.
Please read on at: http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/04/29/12584/osha-strengthens-protections-temp-workers
