Safety Meat - Do You Want Overworked Inspectors Of Your Meat’s Safety?

Over 400 inspectors of food inspection security service (USDA FSIS) worked, on average safety meat, more than 120 hours each pay period of two weeks safety meat. These are the findings of the Inspector General of the agency said in a report released last month.

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His research focused on the fiscal year 2012 and included field work from November 2012 to February 2013.

FSIS inspectors are assigned to more than 6,000 meat, poultry and egg processing plants in the U.S. They are responsible for ensuring that the product sold by companies to consumers is safe and healthy safety meat. These companies deal with tens of thousands of millions of red meat and poultry per year.

With some USDA inspectors working a lot of overtime and not just a few hours a week safety meat, but an average of 20 hours of overtime each week can remain keen sense and they can do their job effectively?

The IG reported that overworked employees are more likely to make mistakes. Noted:

"Our analysis showed that an inspector, on average, 179 hours, three inspectors safety meat, on average, more than 160 hours and 14 averaged over 150 hours. When BIG brought to the attention of FSIS officials, they said no were aware of this fact, and doubt that these extended overtime Agency inspectors damage ".

Funny how an organization calling itself the public health agency safety meat, has so little understanding of how the work environment affects the health, safety and performance of individuals. We have already written at the insistence of the USDA that the proposed increase in the speed of the production line in processing plants Poultry rule does not affect the health of workers.

His view goes against the findings of researchers who have studied musculoskeletal disorders in poultry plant workers safety meat. USDA insists that the performance of production lines faster than 175 birds per minute does not take a physical toll on workers in poultry processing, and excessive overtime inspectors not "harm".

The OIG disagreed and wrote in his report:
"BIG argues that FSIS inspectors can be overloaded risk their own health and that of the public, safety meat especially if they are tired or fatigued in the performance of tasks related to critical food security."
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"Because of this overtime safety meat, think BIG FSIS inspectors could reduce productivity, which could affect your ability to perform the functions that are essential to public food safety."

The auditors specifically refer to a report by the National Institute for Safety and Health at the impact of prolonged displacement and CDC overtime safety meat. The researchers analyzed the studies reviewed and found NIOSH: