Employers who cleaned up after the latest fires of Los Angeles and Ventura County are subject to the regulations for security and healthcare in California, in accordance with the state department for occupational safety and health (CAL/OSHA) of the state. The state security and health authority for jobs recently updated its guidelines for fire preparation.
The security risks of fire treatment include demolition, electricity, excavations, fire and fire products, flammable gases, vehicles, sharp or flight objects, tree work and unstable structures. Health risks include asbestos; Ash, dust and soot; Carbon monoxide poisoning; Dangerous liquids and other dangerous substances; and heat disease.
The current state standards include the regulations of the state to general security precautions, electric shock and programs for prevention of injuries and illnesses. The Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has a number of recommended practices for security and health management programs.
Cal/Osha also has employer instructions for respiratory protection during fire preparation, since ash, dust and soot can be disturbed and can be inhaled during cleaning. The agency recommends that the clean-up work use realizable technical controls to ventilate indoors and a HEPA vacuum with high efficiency particle air (HEPA) when cleaning ash, dust and soot. Employers must also ensure and ensure that employees use properly adapted National Institute for Security and Health (NIOSH) -certerified respiratory protection devices for occupational safety (NIOSH).
After a power failure, electricity conditions can occur if the power lines are switched on again and the electrical devices are switched on again. Clearing work should only enable qualified electric workers to work on or near Downed current lines and to restore the electrical power supply. Employers should also only carry out qualified tree circuit cutters near qualified line cladding near energy supply lines. Other cleaning up should not be allowed to do work with energetic high -voltage lines. Electrical power lines should be viewed until a supply company does not excite the lines and the lines on the construction site are visibly grounded.
Cleaning up should never assume that fire structures or buildings are stable. Buildings can be structurally damaged or weakened and collapsed without warning, so that employers should take precautionary measures, e.g. Until it was examined and certified that it is safe for work by a registered engineer or another qualified person.
The state authority warned the employers that the “household service service” (childcare, cleaning and cooking for a family is not covered by the state's security and health standards, the work for cleaning fire cleaning by the agency and its regulations are covered. The fire preparation work includes the removal and cleaning of fire structures that are not household services for household services.
Household employees are also covered in other work as childcare, cleaning and cooking such as fire cleaning up and reconstruction of household care.
The agency also recalled the employers that it is illegal to instruct an employee, enter in an area or to stay in an area that is subject to mandatory evacuation orders. Employees also have the right to go in a disaster area or to refuse to report if they believe that it is unsure of staying. According to the state's antitretalization regulations, it is illegal to take measures against an employee because he refused to work under insecure or unhealthy conditions.