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Blue Apron Battles Hostile Warehouse Conditions

Business is booming at Blue Apron as the startup struggles to keep up with demand, but now the company is forced to deal with with a spate of violence among warehouse workers at its Jersey City, NJ, distribution warehouse.

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Featured In Food Logistics: Job Safety Analysis 101

Thousands of work-related injuries occur in the public refrigerated warehouse industry each year, which can have numerous negative connotations for a business.

The Job Safety Analysis Guide can be found under Resources-Publications at www.gcca.org.

Training/Onboarding

Job Safety Analysis 101

Why JSAs are important and the best ways to conduct them.

The Job Safety Analysis Guide can be found under Resources-Publications at www.gcca.org.

China Sentences 10 U.S. Poultry Supplier Workers In Safety Scandal; OSI Group To Appeal

The Shanghai Jiading People’s Court said in a statement Monday that it fined two of OSI’s units—one in Shanghai and another in Hebei province—2.4 million yuan ($365,000) and sentenced 10 people to prison.

Shortly after the ruling, the Aurora, Ill.-based OSI Group said it planned to appeal. It said the Chinese authorities unjustly held OSI employees for 17 months and barred OSI’s senior leaders and reporters from attending the trial.

Risk/Compliance

Tesco: All Global Supply Chains Use Slave Labor

Campaigners say forced labor often lurks along the supply chain with multiple suppliers in many different countries involved in manufacturing, packaging and distributing products.

Canned Tuna Industry Uses Slave Labor In Pacific Islands, International Rights Activist Claims

Trickery, illegal contracts and debt bondage (where crew members are obliged to “pay off” the cost of their travel and papers) and non-payment of wages, are common.

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Bumble Bee Foods To Pay Record $6 Million Settlement Over Worker Killed In Oven

The settlement represents the largest payout in the criminal prosecution of a workplace safety case involving a single victim in California, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

Fleet Management

GE Capital Survey: Driver Safety Tops Fleet Manager Concerns

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Thirty-five percent of fleet managers identified driver safety as their main concern for the second year in a row.

FSIS Has Misinterpreted NIOSH Line-Speed Study

Statements made by FSIS on their blog that said NIOSH “made several recommendations to improve worker safety at this facility, but slowing the evisceration line speed was not among them,” is misleading.

Truck Builders Issue a Recall Over Bad Safety Belts

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

Recall involves more than 26,000 trucks made by Daimler Trucks North America, more than 5,000 made by Volvo Trucks and 39 Mack units.

Webinar on Impending CSA Changes

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)

Changes to FMCSA’s Safety Measurement System (SMS) will be implemented in December – learn about impending CSA changes with a free webinar.

New Driver Scoring Index Supported By ATA

Vigillo LLC creates new driver scoring index.

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