Internal records show the U.S. Postal Service has tried to get workers out of air-conditioned offices. The allegations come one year after the agency was accused of falsifying heat-training records
A postal carrier loads mail in his truck for delivery at San Clemente Post Office on Friday, May 15, 2020 in San Clemente, CA.The email went out shortly after a dangerous heat dome in July had smothered upstate New York.
Letter carriers in locations across the country say that for a second year they have not received essential safety training on how to stay healthy in the heat, even as their personnel records say otherwise.to immediately implement safeguards to protect workers from heat. that the Postal Service was facing thousands of allegations that it had falsified safety records to show erroneously that letter carriers had been trained to recognize and treat symptoms of heat illness when they hadn’t received training. After the article was published, USPS admitted that “in a few instances proper procedures were not followed.”
A letter carrier in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, complained to OSHA in July that employees “are being potentially exposed to heat-related hazards due to refraining from starting up air conditioning units while route preparations are being performed.”The complaint is “currently open,” OSHA spokesperson Denisha Braxton said.Postal Service headquarters has long been concerned about unauthorized rest breaks by letter carriers.
“You know what happens when it gets really, really hot? We get really, really slow,” Walton said in an interview. “You know why? Because it burdens our bodies.” Weeks later, Casar’s office held a virtual meeting with the USPS government relations team at which Casar’s staff asked that the agency voluntarily adopt such protections before OSHA finalized its regulation, which could take years.
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