Mold in dairy department?

Date: Sep 13, 2016

Mold in dairy department?

Date: Sep 13, 2016

Our cows are dirty too. Not so fresh and friendly animals.

thedude · Guru

leaky milk and yogurt attracts plenty of mold. never ever use bleach to clean mold - all that does is put the mold spores on the defensive & they will shoot their toxic shiit at you!

Date: Sep 14, 2016

The dairy department at my store is awful. There is no drain in the middle of the floor it's up against the wall and raised up a little. So water stands in the floor because it leaks from the vents. Also under the racks it gets very nasty milk and anything that fall's. The racks are very hard to move. I am a long time utility clerk and one night I was cleaning in dairy overnight. I could not move the rack it took 3 of us the locks are also hard to unlock. The store was built in 2005 so anyone familular with the plans of the stores they built in 2005 I just do not understand why the drain is not in the middle of the floor. Produce has 2 drains. The dairy workers are supposed to keep it clean but they have so much other things to do. They use the cleaning hours for stocking and not cleaning.

Date: Sep 14, 2016

how is this not seen when OSHA comes in? When your zone manager comes in does she not see this and blow her top?

Date: Sep 18, 2016

Our dairy department never gets cleaned, we only have one designated cleaning person for the entire store and they only have time to clean doors and the outsides of bunkers and that's about it. Our store has the same problem with mold, especially by the yogurt area. As dairy stockers, we never have time to clean the department unless it is a gigantic milk spill because we just don't have the time or help to be able to thoroughly clean it ourselves.

kroagrr · Guru

. . . when OSHA comes in . . .

OSHA comes in?

OSHA comes in after there is a fatality.

To give you an idea of the hurdles a worker must overcome in order to get an on-site inspection by OSHA, consider:

. . . the Act defines imminent danger as "... any conditions or practices in any place of employment which are such that a danger exists which could reasonably be expected to cause death or serious physical harm immediately or before the imminence of such danger can be eliminated through the enforcement procedures otherwise provided by this Act."

Requirements. The following conditions must be met before a hazard becomes an imminent danger:

There must be a threat of death or serious physical harm. "Serious physical harm" means that a part of the body is damaged so severely that it cannot be used or cannot be used very well. -- https://www.osha.gov/as/opa/worker/danger.html

Date: Sep 20, 2016

kroagrr wrote:
. . . when OSHA comes in . . .
OSHA comes in?
OSHA comes in after there is a fatality.
To give you an idea of the hurdles a worker must overcome in order to get an on-site inspection by OSHA, consider:
. . . the Act defines imminent danger as "... any conditions or practices in any place of employment which are such that a danger exists which could reasonably be expected to cause death or serious physical harm immediately or before the imminence of such danger can be eliminated through the enforcement procedures otherwise provided by this Act."
Requirements. The following conditions must be met before a hazard becomes an imminent danger:
There must be a threat of death or serious physical harm. "Serious physical harm" means that a part of the body is damaged so severely that it cannot be used or cannot be used very well. -- https://www.osha.gov/as/opa/worker/danger.html

oops I didn't mean OSHA. I can't think of what it's called but we have people who come in randomly, periodically, to inspect us for things of this nature.

Date: Sep 20, 2016

Perhaps you're thinking of EcoLab?