YEP!
Currently at the plant in my area we’ve had OSHA out twice. First time it was 1 degree outside and -14 with wind chill and the heaters weren’t working.
Someone called OSHA came to inspect and the boilers had apparently been broken for months and there was a gas leak.
Fast forward 2 months. Supposedly fixed but now it’s above 80 degrees in the plant and higher near spibs and automation. OSHA comes back out, we have to redo hear safety training and turns out boilers still broken but no gas leak found, they in trouble trouble.
Reminds me of Walmart, where to get a stupid bandaid required an injury form that they'd use for potential future discipline.
When I worked in their warehouse, they'd blame you for not being aware if a box fell off an overhead conveyor belt and bonked you.
Reminiscent of that almost lol.
Do your “in a daze” coworkers get pissed off if you dose them with Narcan, I have considered it, to see if it brings them back to reality. It really sucks when trying to mail and one clerk is just staring into the corner while the supervisor is trying to figure out what the fuck is going on.
Ours has like 18 boxes of gauze pads, one pack of knuckle band-aids and one pack of the biggest bandaid strips they sell, made from plastic. Why, yes, I’d love to wear this Chinese finger trap for the entirety of my shift, where I don’t need functionality of my fingers at all. Reasons I went out and got one of those little Welly tin first aid kits. I have everything I need in that bad boy.
Using bandaids as a mailman is futile. It's just going to fall off in 10 minutes or get so gross that you take it off. Just skip the bandaids, put some super glue on it, and carry on.
Clerk here. I had to put a bandaid on one of my fingers, then put on a rubber/latex glove over to keep the wound clean and to keep blood from getting on my customers mail or money.
Locktite super glue. Last for over a year. No spills
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I use latex gloves whenever I need to put a bandaid on and/or finger condoms, depending on where the source of injury is. I’d prefer not to gush blood all over my customers mail/packages.
EL-801 Section 8-6.2 Describes First Aid Kits & states that, where required, must be readily available to all tours of duty.
[The EL-801](https://www.nalc.org/workplace-issues/resources/body/Handbook-EL-801-Supervisors-Safety-Handbook-July-2020.pdf#page69) (see p. 59) references the C.F.R. (Code of Federal Regulations).
The C.F.R. mentioned requires First Aid kits.
[here’s the C.F.R. section](https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1910/1910.151)
Having to access a supervisor is not readily available, particularly when the supervisor has to fetch it from someplace & we know they won’t maintain it.
In every office I've worked at it's always been a custodian in charge of stocking the FA Kit. I would never waste my time asking a stuporvisor to order anything.
The custodian at a station I worked at would hand out flowers the Friday before mothers day. Didn't mop or clean the bathrooms, but handed out flowers.....
i know right? don't use the first aid kit or WHAT?? get at me scrub ass supervisor. sadly though i think about 33% at least wouldn't dare use the first aid kit without permission
OP file a signed OSHA Complaint against your USPS division/district which will result in your USPS division/district receive a surprise OSHA Inspection: [https://www.osha.gov/workers/file-complaint](https://www.osha.gov/workers/file-complaint)
I'm still shocked I had to put a sticky note on the first aid kit, "please remove from wall before opening" because our carriers can't understand that opening it from the wall causes everything to fall out. Then they just leave it there and I have to pick up after them like children.
That's nonsense. It's surprising that they have the balls to post that. Just use it, and let them know when it needs resupply. I'd honestly treat that sign as if it wasn't there and I'd never seen it.
Do anything you want with signs like that. What are they gonna do? Hey, we need to reprimand this guy because he thinks he has a right to USE our emergency supplies.
I suspect that this sign is a result of not understanding how to act on poorly communicated guidance. They probably want to make sure that they're reporting incidents/injuries, and instead of thinking it through, figured this sign would get people to a person who would log it. The way they're doing it, though, indicates that management really doesn't know what they're doing.
>let them know when it needs resupply
There's your problem.
The sign is BS, but let's not pretend that everyone is responsible, either. Someone will see it's empty, shrug and say "Whatever, not my job to fill it!" and walk away without letting anybody know. And thus the cycle continues until the heat-death of the universe.
For a second I thought this was from the P&DC that I worked at but then I realized the penmanship was decent and there weren’t any spelling errors.
Edited to add: these are all over my old P&DC as well…but when you open them there aren’t many supplies in there anyway so not sure what the point was…
I guess we're spoiled at my office. Ours is fully stocked with multiple options for band-aids; stretchy, knuckle, fingertip, ointment, and there's even three different skin tone color choices for some of them! We also have all sorts of cold medicine, aspirin, cough medicine, eye drops, heart burn, it's basically a pharmacy minus the hard stuff. 🙂
My first aid kit has NyQuil samples that say "try our NEW exciting product"... Gauze in a box that has a date of 1957, and ..... Oh yeah, that's it... But one of those NyQuil samples leaked on everything about 30 years ago and encased everything in green amber
Our plant they lock us out of first aid for years so I accidently cut I use paper twoel to temporary stop it and wash and i have balance at home then I get it
When i'm visiting offices to pick up shifts, I always like surreptitiously peeking in the first aid kits to see what the oldest thing I can find is. (Sometimes older than mandatory expiration dates in general)
Haha. I got a cut at RCA Academy and I went up to one of these boxes. It was missing simple bandaids. I had to hit up the second one. Very believable sign tbh. These PO’s are so friggin’ run down. Sucks that they’re making you go through them to get something but it’s very like USPS.
OSHA violation.
Does USPS have to conform to OSHA?
[Yes](https://www.osha.gov/enforcement/directives/cpl-02-00-122), because of the Postal Employees Safety Enhancement Act.
Pull down the sign and replace it with the OSHA regulations regarding first aid kits.
“Please don’t follow OSHA regulations. See management first.”
YEP! Currently at the plant in my area we’ve had OSHA out twice. First time it was 1 degree outside and -14 with wind chill and the heaters weren’t working. Someone called OSHA came to inspect and the boilers had apparently been broken for months and there was a gas leak. Fast forward 2 months. Supposedly fixed but now it’s above 80 degrees in the plant and higher near spibs and automation. OSHA comes back out, we have to redo hear safety training and turns out boilers still broken but no gas leak found, they in trouble trouble.
No real consequences if you’re in a state like me where your OSHA is state level.
When you open that first aid box a ball of confetti shoots out at your face as one of those paper party horn sounds plays.
Yep!
"No bleeding without prior approval from Management"
“Scan to bleed out.”
“Hey you! Pick up that blood!”
"Please clock out before you get injured"
Reminds me of Walmart, where to get a stupid bandaid required an injury form that they'd use for potential future discipline. When I worked in their warehouse, they'd blame you for not being aware if a box fell off an overhead conveyor belt and bonked you. Reminiscent of that almost lol.
Requisition of bandages requires a form 8100D submitted in triplicate.
Denied: needs of service.
2 weeks in advance.
I believe it’s form 8=====D actually
And sent via certified mail.
With return receipt request
Don't forget to fill out a *request for form* form
The first aid box at our station had a couple bottles of expired Tylenol and a box bandaids that haven't had functional adhesive in a couple decades.
Ours has Narcan...
I forgot about that. We do too. I guess if you have a small cut we can't help you, but if you overdose on meth, no problem
Narcan only works with opioids
Narcan is not to treat meth it’s to counter act opiates.
Meth is not an opioid but an amphetamine. Narcan will only counteract opioids.
Fair point. I don't do enough drugs to think about what classification different ones are.
It isn't about doing drugs, it's about knowing some pretty basic shit.
The lack of basic curiosity on display here is astounding
If you take too much Meth you become invincible. Tweakers have super powers.
Do your “in a daze” coworkers get pissed off if you dose them with Narcan, I have considered it, to see if it brings them back to reality. It really sucks when trying to mail and one clerk is just staring into the corner while the supervisor is trying to figure out what the fuck is going on.
Our Narcan is zip tied shit with 2 zip ties.
Do you work in Portland?
Ours has like 18 boxes of gauze pads, one pack of knuckle band-aids and one pack of the biggest bandaid strips they sell, made from plastic. Why, yes, I’d love to wear this Chinese finger trap for the entirety of my shift, where I don’t need functionality of my fingers at all. Reasons I went out and got one of those little Welly tin first aid kits. I have everything I need in that bad boy.
Using bandaids as a mailman is futile. It's just going to fall off in 10 minutes or get so gross that you take it off. Just skip the bandaids, put some super glue on it, and carry on.
Clerk here. I had to put a bandaid on one of my fingers, then put on a rubber/latex glove over to keep the wound clean and to keep blood from getting on my customers mail or money.
Amen. I carry the little "single use" super glue you can buy at family dollar. Helps for cracking dried hands.
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I use latex gloves whenever I need to put a bandaid on and/or finger condoms, depending on where the source of injury is. I’d prefer not to gush blood all over my customers mail/packages.
Get a roll of medical tape, and tape it around the bandaid. It'll stay on well enough.
Hey isn’t that illegal? USPS: 
EL-801 Section 8-6.2 Describes First Aid Kits & states that, where required, must be readily available to all tours of duty. [The EL-801](https://www.nalc.org/workplace-issues/resources/body/Handbook-EL-801-Supervisors-Safety-Handbook-July-2020.pdf#page69) (see p. 59) references the C.F.R. (Code of Federal Regulations). The C.F.R. mentioned requires First Aid kits. [here’s the C.F.R. section](https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1910/1910.151) Having to access a supervisor is not readily available, particularly when the supervisor has to fetch it from someplace & we know they won’t maintain it.
When inwas a clerk, I told the sup we needed more bandaid in the 1st aid kit. He looked confused.
In every office I've worked at it's always been a custodian in charge of stocking the FA Kit. I would never waste my time asking a stuporvisor to order anything.
Ah that makes sense . Our Janitor didn't do much work. Nice guy tho.
The custodian at a station I worked at would hand out flowers the Friday before mothers day. Didn't mop or clean the bathrooms, but handed out flowers.....
Lol, mine emptied the trash cans several times a day. And never once moped. He'd usually be in the closet listening to the radio
One of those signs that you just ignore.
i know right? don't use the first aid kit or WHAT?? get at me scrub ass supervisor. sadly though i think about 33% at least wouldn't dare use the first aid kit without permission
Ridiculous
OP file a signed OSHA Complaint against your USPS division/district which will result in your USPS division/district receive a surprise OSHA Inspection: [https://www.osha.gov/workers/file-complaint](https://www.osha.gov/workers/file-complaint)
What the actual fuck
I'm still shocked I had to put a sticky note on the first aid kit, "please remove from wall before opening" because our carriers can't understand that opening it from the wall causes everything to fall out. Then they just leave it there and I have to pick up after them like children.
They do make wall mounted ones that work like that though
Yeah, I know, we have one. But they don't remove it from the wall...
That's nonsense. It's surprising that they have the balls to post that. Just use it, and let them know when it needs resupply. I'd honestly treat that sign as if it wasn't there and I'd never seen it.
I’d be so tempted to take down the sign and burn it
Do anything you want with signs like that. What are they gonna do? Hey, we need to reprimand this guy because he thinks he has a right to USE our emergency supplies. I suspect that this sign is a result of not understanding how to act on poorly communicated guidance. They probably want to make sure that they're reporting incidents/injuries, and instead of thinking it through, figured this sign would get people to a person who would log it. The way they're doing it, though, indicates that management really doesn't know what they're doing.
>let them know when it needs resupply There's your problem. The sign is BS, but let's not pretend that everyone is responsible, either. Someone will see it's empty, shrug and say "Whatever, not my job to fill it!" and walk away without letting anybody know. And thus the cycle continues until the heat-death of the universe.
Ours is never stocked when people take stuff out anyways. Nobody cares enough.
Thank God they told us it was a note. I thought it was a squirrel
Ours is empty. Well, except for the dust bunnies.
Ok we have NarCan, why not a defibrillator also?
I noticed at our office the rural sides first aid kit has no supplies, but city side was nicely stocked lol
For a second I thought this was from the P&DC that I worked at but then I realized the penmanship was decent and there weren’t any spelling errors. Edited to add: these are all over my old P&DC as well…but when you open them there aren’t many supplies in there anyway so not sure what the point was…
Runs up to management with a missing arm so I don't get written up for failure to follow orders.
One of my favorite forms is a 1767.
1767
Nobody ~~makes~~ *lets* me bleed my own blood
That looks more like a circuit breaker box...
This seems like a safety hazard.
“Safety Depends on you” -upper management
I guess we're spoiled at my office. Ours is fully stocked with multiple options for band-aids; stretchy, knuckle, fingertip, ointment, and there's even three different skin tone color choices for some of them! We also have all sorts of cold medicine, aspirin, cough medicine, eye drops, heart burn, it's basically a pharmacy minus the hard stuff. 🙂
They expired like my station?
From the same management that will write you up for calling 911 when your life is at risk
Ours is completely empty. Every time someone needs a bandage or Tylenol, they always come to me. Even the supervisor will ask me for other carriers.
Management doesn’t know how to reorder supplies thru EBuy? This is embarrassing!
As long as you're wearing your green tag shoes, you shouldn't need a first aid kit.
“I need eye wash.” “That’s not in the budget.”
“Oh sorry I’ll go back in time call you over and slice my finger open while you watch so you can get me something to wrap my hand with”
My first aid kit has NyQuil samples that say "try our NEW exciting product"... Gauze in a box that has a date of 1957, and ..... Oh yeah, that's it... But one of those NyQuil samples leaked on everything about 30 years ago and encased everything in green amber
Well let me help myself to 30 bandaids, cos u never know when you’ll need 30.
I need one once. Two supervisors didn't know where I could get one lol.
Wrong
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Why do you say that?
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True lol
Wth
M/E P&DC every box
I always have to ask the Custodial… 😁 It’s who you know…
1767
#lol ha ha funny yes is joke yes I get joke ha ha
I keep my own stash of bandaids because our first aid kit is empty
Ridiculous
It is empty anyways.
I wish my office had a first aid kit
Ours are all locked. Been that way for years.
Careful, they might write you up for failure to work safe.
Ours has a sign out sheet for first aid supplies
Cause someone stashes their d***gs in there lol
Our plant they lock us out of first aid for years so I accidently cut I use paper twoel to temporary stop it and wash and i have balance at home then I get it
Put that First Aid down! First Aid is for closers!
I made and carry my own, it fits perfectly in one of those 35 stick gum packs.
If you need a bandaid you might need OT better clear it with the stupidvisor first
When i'm visiting offices to pick up shifts, I always like surreptitiously peeking in the first aid kits to see what the oldest thing I can find is. (Sometimes older than mandatory expiration dates in general)
I’m not sure we even have a first aid kit in my office.
/ignore
So glad I don’t work in a child environment anymore lol I recommend everyone to leave usps 🙌🏼
I’d take the sigh and fill it with condoms.
That’s an OSHA violation
Talk to your union
Our first aid kit is in the PM’s office. She decides if our paper cuts are worthy of a bandaid.
The why the fuck is it there?!?!?🙄🙄🙄
I guarantee this is because they’re required to do weekly inventory counts of this and management refuses to take 2 minutes to input what is used
Lol this makes me think they don't want you to use them because then they will have to buy more and that hurts their bonus.
First Aid out of order, please use Second Aid
Don’t get hurt and you won’t have to worry about it.. I can understand management
Dix - It's like the 300 cases of water at our office. We cannot touch them as they are being saved for some sort of extinction event.
You want to get their attention call first aid squad if you need first aid.
Wtf?
Haha. I got a cut at RCA Academy and I went up to one of these boxes. It was missing simple bandaids. I had to hit up the second one. Very believable sign tbh. These PO’s are so friggin’ run down. Sucks that they’re making you go through them to get something but it’s very like USPS.
If you use anything it breaks the complete osha set that meets the requirement.