The United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration signed an alliance with the Consulate General of Honduras in California on August 1, 2014. The alliance was established in order to provide workplace information to Honduran workers and their employers in Idaho, Washington, Alaska, Oregon, and California.

“This alliance provides us with a tremendous opportunity to provide a large and varied community of vulnerable workers with information that will enhance the quality of their workplaces and work lives,” said Ken Atha, OSHA’s regional administrator in San Francisco.

As a result of this alliance, both OSHA and the Consulate General will be appearing at public events promoting worker safety and rights awareness and they will both be reaching out to employers of Honduran employees to ensure the employers are properly distributing information relevant to their jobs to employees.

If you are an employer in this region, it is imperative you have accurate and up-to-date occupational safety and health procedures in place, and that proper training has been given to your employees, as per the regulations set forth by OSHA. If you are unsure of your procedures or do not have formal, documented procedures, it is important you create or updated them. If you are unsure of how to do that to code, please contact a qualified third party occupational safety and health auditing firm to assist you. It is better to have the procedures in place now then to have OSHA citing you for them, later.

 

If you have any questions about how this alliance could impact you or on how to update or create procedures, please contact us. If you have anything to add about the importance of updated safety and health procedures, please leave a comment.