Workplace Hazards Or Environments Create Pre-Existing Conditions
By Peter Hans Johansen
The economy is facing continued challenges from recessionary periods and enormous unemployment. However, while many Americans are facing economic challenges, an additional challenge being confronted in various avenues is a pre-existing condition. In other words, while pre-existing conditions are preventable or uncontrollable, preventable pre-existing conditions from workplace hazards and conditions such as carcinogen liquids or surrounding environments contribute toward pre-existing conditions, which unfortunately create financial health hazards. In addition, since a limited guardian workforce such as Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is in existence where presence is known from major catastrophes, companies use at-will cancer philosophies knowing of a limited guardian workforce. In essence, workplace hazards or conditions contribute to pre-existing conditions or unfortunate shortened life spans. Furthermore, creating shortened life spans from workplace environments is not a solution toward creating or maintaining career opportunities from shortened life spans.
For instance, Stanley Ann Dunham, Ph.D., the mother of the Honorable President Barack Obama, endured many cultural diversities and workplace environments. As stated by Ripley (2008), "Her anthropological research into how real people worked helped inform the policies set by the Bank Rakyat Indonesia." Unfortunately, life's challenges can transform environments such as cancer into pre-existing conditions. Furthermore, when life challenges or medical conditions occur, pre-existing conditions will follow from industry standards. In other words, although health insurance was present, the current medical diagnosis or condition is invalid for insurance purposes and considered a pre-exsiting conditions. Furthermore, Stanley Ann Dunham, Ph.D. should have known about work environments or conditions, which may contribute to the diagnosed condition.
Unfortunately, individuals are not always properly informed of workplace hazards, conditions, chemicals, or environments, which contribute toward pre-existing conditions. Furthermore, only in America when individuals attempt toward preventing pre-existing conditions and protecting individual health and safety are individuals reprimanded or discharged for protecting individual health regardless of health and safety protected individual rights. In addition, although an individual may have health insurance, the insurance company may choose not to honor the claim regardless of the insurance. In other words, the insurance company is stating that individuals must bear responsibility for being in an unhealthy environment and should have known of the environment. Regrettably, when companies or working environments do not discuss health and safety environments, then pre-existing conditions will follow from the unhealthy environment.
Similarly and as a classic example of workplace conditions create pre-existing conditions combined with company retaliation is the incident of Vidal Rodriguez and other employees at Pymm Thermometer Company (PTC). For instance, employees at PTC encountered health conditions from mercury vapor poising, which included retaliation for protecting individual lives. In any event, PTC manufactures thermometers for clinical use. In addition, the company occupies two floors of the same building, in which manufacturing thermometers are on the second floor whereas service equipment repair and services is on the ground floor. However, whereas employees, being primarily Hispanic workers, performed respective work duties, employees are additionally exposed to mercury poisoning. In other words, long-term exposure from mercury chemicals created various mercury-exposure health effects. Furthermore, since language barriers contribute to ineffective health and safety communication and discussing health concerns creates fear of retaliation, then long-term pre-existing conditions will occur resulting from inefficient health and safety practices. In essence, although employees desire a healthful and safe working environment, the existing working environment created individual mercury contamination. However, if safety measure were implemented, then Rodriguez and other could have a longer life span.
Nonetheless, Rodriguez's working environment provided by upper management contributed to Rodriguez's mercury contamination. Furthermore, although Rodriguez sought medical compensation, seeking medical compensation created grounds for termination. In essence, retaliation is retaliation. In other words, preventing mercury poisoning is preventing pre-existing conditions. However, when Rodriguez sought further health-care prevention or health-care safety, PTC sought termination resulting from health-care prevention. Nevertheless, creating pre-existing conditions, shortened life spans, or other company calamities should not be a method towards job creation.
Yet, in another twist of workplace hazards created from a stressful environment and now in an unfortunate long-term pre-existing condition is that of co-worker Mario Alberto Garay. Mr. Garay was employed at Remec Defense and Space, which is currently Cobham, who worked as an Electronics Technician during unusual working hours. In other words, Mr. Garay's working hours included early morning or past midnight work related activities. Unfortunately, unusual working hours can lead to an assortment of ailments, which appear ignored through non-communication. Furthermore, when compounding the unusual working environment with unrealistic supervisors then stresses will occur. Unfortunately, Mr Garay lost 90 years of quality life resulting from REMEC Defense & Space work activities. Furthermore, Mr. Garay did not sign an employment agreement, which provides company stresses and a shortened life span from associated working environments. However, providing an alternative or first-shift operation, then Mr. Garray's night-shift stresses could be minimized.
Thus, although Mr. Garay was working unusual shifts through early morning hours, Mr. Garay was additionally battling unusual work shift side effects associated with abnormal working hours. In essence, REMEC Defense and Space or Cobham continuously violated Mr. Garay's protected health and safety through ignoring side effects of unusual working conditions. In the mean time, depression and stress have taken a turn for the worse where Mr. Garay passed away on April 7, 2007. In other words, work-related stress cancer from REMEC Defense and Space or Cobham contributed to Mr. Garay's shortened life span creating long-term pre-existing conditions or unfortunate job opportunities. In essence, unusual working conditions, stresses, fatigue, and a variety of effects from the unusual working conditions contributed to Mr. Garay's shortened and preventable life span. However, providing normal shift-work hours can prevent stresses and improve a quality-family lifestyle.
Night-shift fatigue syndromes, depression, or related scenarios have been studied and reported from various organizations. Furthermore, organizations such as Circadian conduct numerous seminars to organizations, which will improve quality of life through better awareness. Unfortunately, incidences of Mr. Garay and many others are being ignored by respective attorney's, employers, or unforeseen individuals through lack of accountability, misinformed communication, and disregarded expert opinions. Unfortunately, fatigued and depression characteristics were ignored by REMEC Defense and Space. In essence, workplace conditions or environments create long-term and undesired pre-existing conditions. As stated by Penso (2007), "Complaints from guards began rolling in and the list was endless. In addition to the health problems, the fatigue affected their performance in a gradual and transitory way." Furthermore, fatigued symptoms from unusual working conditions created irritability amongst the workforce. Therefore, the unusual working conditions from shift work disorder (SWD) created misery and fatigued symptoms, which developed a shortened life span or long-term pre-existing condition for Mr. Garay.
Equally, I too encountered Mr. Garay at REMEC Defense & Space or Cobham while working an undesired graveyard shift while encountering an unknown pre-existing condition. Being a former quality engineer and having the skills toward finding unusual characteristics, one can certainly find anomalies within a system or an organization. In any event and after a brief training seminar, I started working at Remec's second shift, which was from 4 pm until near 1 am. Working past the midnight hours certainly became exasperating. In essence, the workload became unproductive while attempting to manage unusual working conditions. Furthermore, when individuals are pawns or human switches within an organization, then pre-existing conditions will follow. In any event, discovering graveyard conditions and an unmarked cancer chemical would certainly create long-term pre-existing conditions. Unfortunately, discovering unmarked cancer chemicals becomes a hazard to the employee. In other words, the carcinogen contents that are inside the container do not match the lable that is on the container.
Nevertheless, individuals within an organization discuss beliefs and concerns. However, when individuals exercise their opinions or freedoms, then individuals become further thrown into undesirable graveyard positions. In other words, expressing an opinion or protective right within an organization is rewarded with graveyard opportunities, which is not discussed during interviews or employment contracts. In any event, being on a graveyard shift at any age is a challenge. Furthermore, when working against an abnormal human operation, then individuals must overcome many obstacles. In addition, when individuals are rewarded with diseases from undesired operations, companies on the other hand reward employees with insurance or pre-existing conditions. Furthermore and surprisingly, when individuals present doctor's notice to human resource personal, human resource personal such as Ramirez can ignore a doctor's comments since REMEC Defense & Space is an at-will organization. Unfortunately, ignoring doctor's comments can translate into pre-existing conditions.
Nonetheless, fatigued symptoms such as tiredness from graveyard conditions accumulate regardless of daytime sleep. Eventually, sleeplessness accumulates requiring sleep regardless of graveyard working hours, obscured manager's comments, or attorney's unintelligent statements. In the meantime, another graveyard employee would find a cubicle for sleeping activities since the hours were intolerable. Unfortunately, protecting individual health and safety through micro sleeps is further rewarded with supervisory reprimands. Furthermore, when managers or Faulkner comments of, "health concerns to your dog", then pre-existing conditions such as fatigue, depression, stress, anxiety, cancer, after-work accidents, and a myriad of diseases will continue from workplace activities. In addition, when individuals attempt toward preventing night-shift accidents, REMEC Defense & Space, reflective attorneys, and others focus toward night-shift accidents or other obituary workplace features. Reluctantly, after graveyard sleeplessness, multiple night-shift health reports, lack of real production work, and other management pressures created a transferred shift change from graveyard to first-shift operation.
Nevertheless, a transfer from graveyard to first-shift encounters an enduring jet-lag battle. However, after weeks on first shift, recovery to normal human operation can begin. In any event, a first-shift operation leads to an interesting discovery requiring OSHA compliance, possible Leukemia candidates, and long-term pre-existing conditions. For instance, individuals encounter questionable liquids used during operation. Furthermore, when individuals report and discover unidentified carcinogen liquids in non-labeled containers, then terminations will follow. Similarly, when a former REMEC Defense & Space employee recommends removal of questionable liquids for health and safety concerns, then questionable employees become targets for removal. In essence, industrial liquids regardless of toxicity contribute toward pre-existing conditions. However, when limited dosage such as ethylene oxide (EtO) contribute toward leukemia or the Oncology department, then stricter measures are required. Furthermore, when respective capitalistic legal counsels appear ignorant or unfazed toward health and safety, then disbarment should follow.
In the meantime, former obituary employees are pondering for justice resulting from company's cancerous environment. Regrettably, future REMEC Defense & Space or Cobham leukemia candidate employees may be seeking toxic attorneys for workplace EtO exposures while realistic earth-firendly or pure water products are available.
Every person regardless of individual has a right to maintain his or her health and safety in the workplace. In other words, protecting individual health and safety is a protected right within a society. Furthermore, one of California's protected rights is health and safety, which is a given right. Unfortunately, individuals within a workplace organization such as REMEC Defense & Space or Cobham, Pymm Thermometer Company, respective attorneys, and many others cannot comprehend health and safety in a workplace. In addition, given at-will principles of, "we can do what we want with the employee", an employers market, lack of attorney understanding through ignorance, a limited-English speaking workforce, and other scenarios, then health and safety risks combined with pre-existing conditions become challenged.
Not surprisingly, the United Nations labor chief stresses prevention towards health and safety. In other words, preventing leukemia, cancers, or other workplace hazards and diseases is better than acquiring leukemia, cancers, or other workplace hazards. Hence, prevention towards workplace accidents and deaths minimizes pre-existing conditions created from workplace environments.
Unfortunately, preventing workplace or from work-related accidents are rewarded with retaliation and a lack of adequate justice system. For instance, employees from PTC who sought after workers compensation were rewarded with termination. In other words, employees who sought medical compensation for the mercury poisoning were terminated. Similarly, suggesting removal of an EtO cleaning liquid, which creates leukemia is rewarded with termination and further retaliation. In addition, suggesting proper labeling on containers with appropriate MSDS labels becomes rewarded with undesired comments. In essence, preventing health issues such as a myriad of disease or other concerns, which prevents pre-existing conditions is rewarded with unjust retaliation.
In summary, employees encounter various workplace settings, which contribute toward pre-existing conditions or shortened life spans. Individuals however have a protected right towards health and safety conditions including disease preventions or other ailments. Unfortunately, companies such as PTC, REMEC Defense & Space or Cobham, respective litigants, and others use at-will cancers while the Oncology department appears puzzled toward continuous cancerous environments. In essence, at-will cancers from environments create unfortunate short-term or long-term pre-existing conditions. Furthermore, operational environments, conditions, hazards, ignorance, and other similar traits created by such are rewarded by a shortened life span or long-term pre-existing condition. Nonetheless, individuals are pondering of collective or long-term pre-existing conditions. In any event, has anyone seen Mr. Garray?
References:
Penso, G. G. (2007). Guarding Against Fatigue. Security Management. Retrieved October 7, 2010, from website http://www.securitymanagement.com/article/guarding-against-fatigue.
Ripley, A. (2008). The Story of Barack Obama's Mother. Time, 7. Retrieved September 28, 2010, from website http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1729524,00.html.
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