Safety Reports: The Permanente Medical Group Inc, 2500 Merced Street, SAN LEANDRO, CA, 94577, USA
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1. The employer has not implemented effective engineering, work practice controls, personal protective equipment, and training to protect employees required to enter rooms containing COVID-19 cases during their high-risk exposure period. Placards and signs on these rooms instruct employees to take "contact/droplet" precautions instead of airborne precautions.…
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1. The employer failed to develop and implement effective written decontamination procedures, including appropriate engineering controls, for the cleaning and decontamination of work areas. The employer's Environmental Services Department (EVS) is not effectively cleaning COVID-19 positive patients rooms. T8 CCR 5199(e)(2)
Alleged Hazards: 1, Employees Exposed: 1…
Alleged Hazards: 1, Employees Exposed: 1…
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1. The employer has not implemented effective engineering, work practice controls, personal protective equipment, and training to protect employees required to enter rooms containing COVID-19 cases during their high-risk exposure period. Placards and signs on these rooms instruct employees to take "contact/droplet" precautions instead of airborne precautions.…
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1. The employer failed to develop and implement effective written decontamination procedures, including appropriate engineering controls, for the cleaning and decontamination of work areas. The employer's Environmental Services Department (EVS) is not effectively cleaning COVID-19 positive patients rooms. T8 CCR 5199(e)(2)
Alleged Hazards: 1, Employees Exposed: 1…
Alleged Hazards: 1, Employees Exposed: 1…
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1. The employer failed to ensure that employees wear face coverings while at work. T8 CCR Section 3205(c)(7) 2. The employer failed to ensure that ventilation in the building is adequate. During the night shift, the ventilation is turned off in the building. T8 CCR Section 3205(c)(8)(B)…
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1. The employer failed to ensure that high-hazard procedures were conducted in Airborne Infection Isolation rooms. At approximately 10:15PM on January 1, 2021, a COVID-19 case was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit, Room 2210, where they received high flow nasal cannula oxygenation. This room was not…
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The employer failed to follow proper ATD work procedures by allowing a family member of a patient, who identified themselves as being COVID-19 positive during check in, to spend 4 hours in the ICU visiting a patient. T8 CCR 5199(e)(5)(A) & (B)
Alleged Hazards: 1, Employees Exposed:…
Alleged Hazards: 1, Employees Exposed:…
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Respirators/masks are not being provided to employees working at the Radiology Department, potentially exposing them to the COVID-19 aerosol transmissible disease. T8 CCR 5199(g)(3)(A)
Alleged Hazards: 1, Employees Exposed: 1
Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-03-17
Alleged Hazards: 1, Employees Exposed: 1
Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-03-17
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The employer is having employees wear surgical masks while working in the negative pressure rooms while treating COVID-19 patients on the 4th floor Medical Surgery Unit. T8 CCR 5199(g)(1)
Alleged Hazards: 1, Employees Exposed: 1
Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-03-19
Alleged Hazards: 1, Employees Exposed: 1
Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-03-19
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1. The employer failed to use airborne isolation infection precautions for a suspected COVID-19 case by downgrading the airborne precautions for a novel virus as described in Appendix A to droplet precautions. T8 CCR 5199 2. The employer failed to provide necessary personal protective equipment to employees…
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