SOURCE: OSHA HAZWOPER Training Manual

[ Hazard Waste Operations & Emergency Response]

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Corexit chemicals are  ABSORBED and go INTO THE BLOOD STREAM

Corexit chemicals  if TOUCHED will cause irritation or RASHES [dermatitis]

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Corexit chemicals are ABSORBED through YOUR MOUTH

Corexit Chemicals in the AIR can SETTLE on FOOD or DRINK and be SWALLOWED.

Corexit Chemicals are caught in mucus, and naturally swallowed

Corexit chemicals will then be absorbed into your digestive tract

BP contracted BEACH CLEAN UP WORKERS were NOT ALLOWED

      To wear the OSHA required SAFETY GEAR – because of TOURISM.

When a beach clean up employee went to their supervisor and said “my eyes have been nasty

for a couple of days now, real itchy and gooey, I’d like to wear those protective goggles.”

The response was typically, “Are you trying to cause a problem?”

If that was not enough to get you to shut up and go back to work……

If you pursued the subject “what about the air monitors we were told we would always be wearing ?

Could I get one of those.”

Then, after the signal had been relayed, your supervisor would tell you to go over and talk to so and so.

And so and so would tell you that your services were no longer required as he quickly and quietly

removed your badges from around your neck.

SOURCES for this “anecdotal converstion” are MANY beach clean up workers

just before they went home.

BP Beach workers were NOT allowed to wear ANY safety gear that could have

PROTECTED THEIR HEALTH.