Wal-Mart has asked a federal appeals court to review a ruling that a Florida distribution center violated a worker safety bloodborne pathogen standard.
Rather than employing medical personnel, the Alachua, Fla., Wal-Mart Stores-East warehouse trains volunteers in first aid, CPR, automated external defibrillators, and bloodborne pathogens safety, and organizes them into teams to provide first aid to injured workers.
The warehouse, however, didn’t provide a full hepatitis B vaccine series to employee injury-response volunteers, Heather A. Joys, an administrative law judge for the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, ruled in a May 30 decision and order.
Wal-Mart petitioned the ...
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