Health and Safety Prevails
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Health and Safety Prevails!
March 12, 2000 will be a day to mark on a calendar. The shifts were about to begin at the Upper Grand District School Board*. The 12 evening shift workers were on their assigned floors of the high school.
As the Safety Technician was about to go to the floor assigned she noticed a slight odour coming from the bathrooms on the second floor. The cleaner, Deltry*, was about to head off to clean the classrooms and leave the bathroom doors ajar. The Safety Technician could not believe the mixture that the co-worker was using to clean the bathrooms. Deltry was using Javex and a toilet bowl cleaner combined for the urinals which she believed would disinfect and clean the porcelain better.
As a Safety Technician knows, you do not mix chemicals, especially a toilet bowl cleaner and bleach. The Safety Technician quickly approached Deltry to give her advice on this matter...