NIOSH: Puerto Rico townhall meeting transcript - Centers for ...

salaries. And Mr. Francisco Díaz Morales, vice
president of the ILA, Local 1575 and of the
union that I direct.
I want to thank the director of Federal
OSHA here in Puerto Rico, to Mr. José Carpena
for the invitation that he extended to me and
to Mr. Teodoro Rovira, official inspector of
this agency. I want to give immense thanks for
the great help they have given us in the area
of the ports. I want to speak to you--make a
summary of the different inconveniences we have
had, but that in one way or another these two
gentlemen have greatly helped us here in Puerto
Rico.
Our area is very complex, it is an
immensely large area which is known that while
many sleep we are working on the loading and
unloading of the ships. I want to speak to you
of what is the safety and health on the
waterfront. We in the loading and unloading
are sometimes exposed to different chemicals.
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We want to also make the recommendation of
OSHA to be able to really help us in this
loading and unloading of the ships with strange