Site Safety
When working in less desirable areas and areas where the homeless and suspected drug users frequent, picket the area often to identify and correct any possible exposures. This is about a 30 foot section of subway right next to the pedestrian platform.
Approximately 2 dz needles.
Some with the caps on most had the caps off.
Not sure if this is drug use or diabetics.
Really doesn’t matter either way.
This is also the reason I have sandals in my truck and I take my work boots off and throw them in back.
I never wear them home.
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Oh My! Sign of the times I guess.
I have not yet experienced this in an industrial (factory) setting, yet. I did have an janitorial employee jab his hand dumping wastepaper baskets several years ago where an unknown employee had not used a sharps container to dispose of a syringe. The janitor was a contractor so I did not have to deal with 1904 or 1910.1030 directly, but I did get "chewed out" by his company manager because she had to deal with them. We did retrain everyone on Blood Borne Pathogens and sharps disposal earlier than out annual training.
Now that I am semi-retired I often walk my dog, and we walk some seldom used RR Tracks through a large county park where sometimes we see homeless people way back in the woods along the river, who camp out in the park. I usually have my big 8" work boots with composite toes on. My Golden is not protected though, although he is usually off the leash and does not like walking on the gravel, so smells along in the grass or in or along the river. I will now be on the lookout! Thanks!