'- Agency holds in-person visits with biological parents and foster care children. These children are not from the same household. The in-person visits are held in small meeting rooms without proper ventilation, and social distancing. - Agency does not enforce its face-covering policy. - Signs are posted
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on doors stating a mask must be worn before entering the building, but people have been seen entering and leaving the building without masks. - Foster care parents do not wear masks for outdoor visits. - Agency has a policy that requires a health screen before a visit takes place. When agency staff drive young children (3 and under) for visit, the health screen has never taken place. - Health screenings never takes place at family visits with parent advocate. - Health screenings and temperatures are taken when a foster parent drops child off at the agency. - Agency staff fail to remember to do the health screening when they are the drivers. - Biological parents often bring food and sodas. Agency staff does not stop parents from sharing sodas through the same straw or sharing food. - Visits start at 8:30 a.m. with approximately eight visits a day. Two separate households interact with a driver, caseworker, front desk, visitors in waiting room, CASA worker, and outside agency staff.
Alleged Hazards: 1, Employees Exposed: 1
Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-08-04
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