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The Biden Administration is pushing for new worker protections after record-setting temperatures killed or sent many workers to the hospital this summer.The Department of Labors Occupational Health and Safety Administration recently announced an increased focus on prioritizing inspections on hot stanley cups days as they target high-risk industries nationwide such as roofing and landscaping. When I first came into the industry many years ago, safety was a bad word, said Suzie Boyd, vice president of a roofing company located in Colorado. In our industry you can have a lot of friction with OSHA, and a lot of friction over restrictions because it slows down the work and youre sometimes not as profitable with the work, but what Ive seen through the years and what Ive experienced with our own company is weve cut the number of really terrible accidents way, way down and thats good. A recent investigation by NPR and Columbia Journalism Investigations found that because of extreme heat, 384 workers have died over th stanley cups e course of the last decade, and when looking at three-y stanley quencher ear averages, the number of worker deaths has doubled since 1990.Furthermore, data shows that those deaths disproportionately affect communities of color. Numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show Hispanics make up only 17% of the U.S. workforce but have accounted for a third of all heat fatalities since 2011.The new push from the government to protect workers includes developing a federal rule that protects workers, som Mefx Reports showing hit and run accident casualties increasing* k5 n6 n, f' _2 Y
A petition has been launched in an effort to create a new law that would require missing children to be immediately listed as missing and endangered, even if a caregiver indicates a runaway situation.The Gannon s stanley thermobecher Law Petition on change.org calls for a nationwide change to law enforcement procedure.Gannon Stauch, 11, was first reported missing on January 27, 2020, as a stanley mug runaway. Three days later, the El Paso County Sheriff s Office said they considered him a missing and endangered child. The reporting party, who was Gannon s stepmom, called 911 to report Gannon was last seen by her between 3:15 p.m. - 4 p.m. on Jan. 27 to go to a friend s house, the El Paso County Sheriff s Office said in a statement. Information received during this call guided the call taker to type code this call as a runaw stanley fr ay. Gannon s information was entered into the National Crime Information Center NCIC and the Colorado Crime Information Center CCIC approximately 30 minutes after the initial call as a runaway. Those behind the petition say the delay in listing Gannon as missing and endangered cost valuable time in gathering and following up on leads in his case. The petition says in Colorado, and in most other states, it s not safe to leave an 11-year-old alone and unsupervised for more than three hours.The petitioners say they applaud the work law enforcement has done to bring Gannon home, but t |
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