OSHA Teams Deployed to Aid Hurricane Katrina Recovery Workers; Agency Focused on Safety in Cleanup and Recovery Operations

U.S. Newswire, September, 2005

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As part of the U.S. Department of Labor's response to Hurricane Katrina, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has deployed safety and health professionals to Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to provide technical assistance to recovery workers in their ongoing cleanup efforts along the Gulf Coast of the United States.

"The Department of Labor has already dispatched teams of OSHA professionals to the devastated regions to help ensure that the restoration of power and telecommunications facilities and infrastructures are done in a safe way. And they will continue to be in the region for as long as it takes to ensure the health and safety of workers involved in the rescue, recovery and rebuilding efforts," said U.S....

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