The California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal/OSHA) cited Amazon 3 times for exposing its employees to dangerously sizzling circumstances at San Bernardino International Airport. The on-line purchasing big was solely fined $14,625 for leaving workers on the airport tarmac with little shade to shelter from the scorching California solar over the summer time months. Amazon has repeatedly been criticized for working harsh office amenities.
Amazon ramp employees primarily took shade within the shadow of a Boeing 767-300 parked on the tarmac, unable to sit down on the recent pavement. Across July and August final yr, there have been round 20 days when the recorded excessive temperature was 100 levels or extra. The hottest day was 108 levels on July 25, based mostly on knowledge from Weather Underground. The quotation additionally mentions a van, however it wasn’t massive sufficient to suit everybody engaged on loading and unloading plane. According to the Warehouse Workers Resource Center, ramp employee Regina Herrmann defined:
“We saw that Amazon was more concerned with loading and unloading the planes as fast as possible than with our safety. We work out on the tarmac without enough shade and sometimes without enough water. Last summer was scary. It got so hot and we did not always have enough water to drink or time to let our bodies cool down. We sometimes had to crouch or stand under the planes for shade. We knew we had to do something before someone was seriously injured.”
One can solely hope that lower than $15,000 in fines can nudge a trillion-dollar firm into treating its workers with slightly decency. Motherboard studies that Amazon intends to attraction the citations. The on-line retailer said that cooling measures have been already in place and each air hub was air-conditioned. It must be famous that there isn’t air-con outside on the steaming sizzling tarmac!
Source: jalopnik.com