Posts Tagged ‘EHS risks’
Rats! Family Dollar Dinged on Sanitation
Family Dollar Stores is paying $41.6 million to settle charges that the discount retailer ignored a rat infestation at one of its distribution centers and allowed contaminated goods to go to its retail stores — one of the ickier examples of corporate culture gone wrong that we’ve seen lately. The settlement, announced Tuesday by the…
Read MoreEmployee Drug Use Marches Upward
Depressing news today for compliance officers worried about health and safety risks: drug use among the American workforce is at a 12-year high, across all types of workers and all types of drugs. So says Quest Diagnostics, the blood-testing firm that publishes its annual Drug Testing Index. Yes, the absolute percentage of workers snorting cocaine,…
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