Postal Bulletin: Replace Smoke Detectors Every 10 Years

Fire Prevention Week is October 9-15, 2016: Don’t Wait — Check the Date! Replace Smoke Detectors Every 10 Years Almost 2,500 people die in home fires every year in the United States. Most of these people live in homes that do not have working smoke alarms. Approximately 60 percent of home fire deaths result from…

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Investigating grease fire at maintenance facility, OSHA finds USPS failed to maintain working fire extinguishers

Employer name: U.S. Postal Service 1720 Market St. St. Louis, Missouri Citations issued: Sept. 13, 2016 Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration‘s St. Louis Area Office has cited the U.S. Postal Service’s vehicle maintenance facility for one repeated and two serious safety violations. Investigating a report of a fire…

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Attention U.S. Postal Service – I hope you have zero-tolerance for this

By Dave Statter – February 13, 2016 I’ve long felt blocking a fire hydrant is an enormously selfish act that shouldn’t be tolerated — especially if it’s a government vehicle doing the blocking. You would hope (and sometimes be very disappointed) that people who drive official vehicles (especially the ones that are marked) would be…

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