Who is responsible for the cleaning of vomit in a place of employment?
966108
Following OSHA regulations a employer must in-service the cleaning people before they start to work and every year thereafter, although vomit is not a chemical or a corrosive could be contagious and therefore trained people normally handle it, the cleaning crew is the answer..☺
599075
I think it is because customer service oriented jobs are being performed by the couch potato generation.  They think they are doing us a favor by being there.  Labor laws protect the employee but not the employer.  It is hard to weed out the individuals that are lazy.  It's not like the days when somebody could be fired on the spot.  Now there is so much red tape to terminate somebody.  I feel your pain though.  I have a hard time having to bag my own groceries after putting in a ten hour day!  I voice my opinion by making a copy of my receipt and mailing it to the business owner or manager with my complaint.  This way; they know exactly who the individual was, what time and date the incident occurred, and what my issues were.  Most of the time I get a letter explaining that the problem is being addressed.  Sometimes, the individual puts two and two together and is much more pleasant to me the next time I pay the place of business a visit.
864781
I ran into the same problem at a place where I worked. \n\nI was told…..in many places in Mexico they have poorly constructed sewage systems and they NEED to throw away their TP rather than flush it or their sewer will back up. \n\nThe company explained to the employees that this was unnecessary and that flushing your TP would not cause problems. HR started telling new hires the same thing as part of their orientation and the problem went away in a couple of months (time for them to develop new habits I guess).\n\nBe understanding and remember they are in a new country and have no idea in which ways ours differs from theirs yet. They are actually trying to be considerate and not clog the toilet.\n\nFor those of you screaming foul, this is not racist, this is a cultural misunderstanding. It is this type of problem that needs dealt with in order for everyone to get along.
1053162
i agree i worked at a restaurant and had to clean the men and women's bathroom and yes 9 times out of 10 the women's restroom was gross!!!!  i think its because most females know that they don't have to clean it why should they care. its the same mentality that allows women to go into a clothing store and leave piles upon piles of clothes in the dressing room and all over the store.
15835
Trash collector...because for a septic company, **** happens!
762113
No.  You really don't have any basis for a legal claim.  The best thing that I can recommend to you is that you contact HR and let them know about the situation and see what happens from there.  The best thing to do though would probably be to look for a new job.  \n\nInstead of asking whether it was your fault, you probably should have calmly told her why the fitting room was a mess and that since you had to leave to help out the front, you will be willing to help clean up the fitting room, but you need some help.  If you do anything to present yourself as being confrontational -- like raising your voice, as understandable as it was -- a lot of managers will react very badly to it.
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USUALLY FOOD POISONING..WHICH CAN BE FROM SOMETHING YOU ATE ..IT CAN EFFECT YOU IN MINUTES OR DAYS FROM THE TIME COMSUMED..\n\nYOU CAN INFECTED YOURSELF WITH DIRTY HANDS ON YOUR FOOD,EATWARE,OR MOUTH..\n\nGET ON THE NET AND CHECK OUT NORWALK...\n\nMOST COMMON PLACE TO GET IT IS EATTING OUT...\nEVEN AT FAMILY  OR POT-LUCK GATHERING WHERE PEOPLE DO NOT WASH THIER HANDS WHILE HANDLING EATWARE OR FOOD....\n.\nSO DO YOUR PART EDUCATE PEOPLE TO WASH...\n\nFOR FUN...NOTE HOW MANY PEOPLE DO NOT WASH THIER HANDS IN PUBLIC BATH ROOMS... OH AND FOR A NOTE USE A PAPER TOWEL TO OPEN A PUBLIC BATHRROOM DOOR AND SINK VALVES....YUK YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE WHAT KINDA SH-T IS ON SINK VALVE HANDLES
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I feel for you. I don't know if you can in the UK but you can in the U.S. Just fire them on the grounds of bad hygiene.Get someother people to sign a statement saying that this person has very bad hygiene. Then if you get took to court for firing them you will have proof. And I do not know any Judge that would expect you to smell someones body odor. Good luck.  Or get a clothes pin! lol.
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What do janitors and pizza hut workers think of people that get fired from their jobs?\n\nthey think it is a big conspiracy to explain their disappearances....actually the truth is:alien abduction. Pizza Hut workers and Janitors are very alien conscious and wear special glasses to detect aliens.
32769
anyplace you dont have to clean up yourself or be responsible if something breaks, cuz it aint a party till the cops come.  LOL
25989
Unfortunately, you can't LEGALLY tell your boss about your co-worker's illness. However, when it comes to stuff like this, I personally tend to throw legality out the window and leave an anonymous note on my supervisor's desk. Make sure it's anonymous. The government provides for the person, people provide for the people. My instinct says your duty is to yourself and your fellow workers who are not infected.\n\nHow sure are you his mouth has pus-filled blisters in it?
888087
The people who have to clean out the Don's Johns!! EWW!!!! When they deliver them to the next place they are pretty near spotless in the bottom. Someone has to do it, a hose isn't going to get all of that out. Gosh, that makes me ill just thinking about it.
1080304
EEWWWW!!!!! GROSS!!! Where do you work, cause I'm sure not wanting to there!  I'm sorry, but that's just sick.  Ugh, I'm grossed out just thinking about it.  \nThat's my opinion.  The end. (Hint, hint-my response is a NO!)
807310
because they are never mopped. people spill things and it gets tracked around and makes the floor tacky. the employees pick up the obvious garbage but never really "clean". the seats are filthy too!
1111522
You might do all those things but the other people in the building might not be so clean. Tell your manager in writing  give him a copy and let him know if the problem isnt fixed in a timely manner you will put your rent in an escro account with the local courts.
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Your toilet seat is cleaner than your keyboard \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nposted 9:20am EST Tue May 14 2002 - submitted by Thomas \nNEWS\nA recent study done by Clorox aimed to find the most germ-ridden surfaces in the workplace. The surface would be a "high-touch" area, meaning it was touched frequently by workers nearly all day long. Remarkably, toilet seats were found to be one of the cleaner surfaces, but telephones and computer keyboards were found to be some of the most filthy.\n\nThere are several obvious factors at play here. The more often something is touched, the more germs it collects. On a busy work day it was found that the average employee is touching ten items per minute. Also, janitors are expected to clean toilets regularly, but are often asked not to disturb workspaces. The study found that bacteria can grow 19 to 31% a day in a workstation if nothing is done. Employees who frequently wipe down their areas with anti-bacterial products were found to reduce the bacteria count 99.9% in two days' time.\n\nThe study was conducted in Tucson, San Francisco, New York, and Tampa. Tucson was found to have the cleanest desks, and New York was found to have the dirtiest. The researchers believe Tucson's desert climate is not as inviting to bacteria. The most germ-ridden surface in Tucson was, in fact, the water fountain handle, demonstrating that moisture is an important factor. Clorox also speculates that in "busier" cities employees are more likely to eat in their workplace, which increases the risk of bacteria spreading.\n\nThe dirtiest areas in the workplace were telephones, but fax machines, water fountain handles, microwave door handles, and computer keyboards were not far behind in the 7,000 items sampled in the survey. Scott Harper, environmental health and safety director for Pima Community College concludes:\n\nI don't want to create a paranoia about touching anything, but we can go a long ways to increase awareness about the benefits of washing your hands or wiping down your desk.\n\nWhat diseases can you catch from toilet seats?\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nDear Straight Dope:\n\nWhat EXACTLY can you catch from sitting on a toilet seat? I took an informal survey and asked several of my girlfriends if they sit on public toilet seats, and 9 of the 11 of them never do. When I asked why, all of them had some variation of "You never know what you can catch from a toilet seat." So, please clear this up for all of us women who are afraid to sit down in a public restroom. --Nicole Anderson, Millis, MA\n\nSDSTAFF Jill replies:\n\nYou can get cooties, and that's about it. Sexually transmitted diseases are spread via sexual intercourse with an infected person. Most of them are spread more easily from male to female. The diseases vary in how infectious they are, but none of them are spread on toilet seats (well, assuming you're using the toilet seat for what it was intended). Most bugs don't tend to live on cool, hard surfaces.\n\nI could add that a couple of diseases - syphilis and herpes - can be spread by direct non-sexual contact with infectious lesions, so make sure there is not an infected person already on the toilet when you sit down. One should consider HOW people sit on toilet seats. Genital and anal infections most likely would not come in contact with the seat in normal use. Intact skin is a good barrier against most disease organisms ... unless of course one were to pick up a bacterium or virus on the seat, then immediately plant their buttocks on someone's nose and mouth. If this were to happen to me, disease transmission would be the least of my concerns.\n\nAs far as other kinds of diseases that have different routes of transmission, such as oral/fecal or airborne, the hands are more to blame for spreading these diseases than the bott
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Walk away and get a Walmart associate and say someone had an accident (not you) and can they get someone to clean it up? Accidents happen all the time.  No need to be embarrassed.