[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, LEAD: Defense Logistics Agency employees at Robins AFB (GA) tested for lead

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Thirty-four DLA employees at Robins tested for lead exposure

By BECKY PURSER
Macon Telegraph (GA)
June 19, 2012

WARNER ROBINS -- Blood tests for lead exposure on about half of the  
34 civilians who work for the Defense Logistics Agency in a  
distribution warehouse at Robins Air Force Base have all been normal.  
The remaining 18 test results are pending.

That's according to a DLA statement released late Tuesday afternoon  
following Occupational Safety and Health Administration findings  
related to lead exposure. Two citations were issued June 1 for unsafe  
or unhealthful working conditions.

"We are concerned for employee safety and health everywhere we  
operate," Twila Gonzales, director of DLA Disposition Services in  
Battle Creek, Mich., said in the statement. "We appreciate the work  
the local union safety personnel and the base safety and  
environmental offices are doing with us to take care of this matter  
in a compliant and timely manner."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.macon.com/2012/06/19/2066754/thirty-four-dla-employees-at- 
robins.html

--

Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org