In short, I work in a warehouse environment now that is extremely dangerous; warehousing is dangerous by nature, but this place is dangerous due to apathetic/ clueless management and overall disregard for basic safety. People are using stock pickers with no fall equipment, 120lb people are expected to pull and move 300+lbs by themselves (and on stock pickers, 40ft in the air, on 4×4 pallets), the water is unsafe/ unreliable, no one receives any standard safety training and there are no trainers on many shifts.
On top of these major things, many many minor things such as safety data sheets are not used or filled out, standard audits dont exist, and other paperwork is often lost (this paperwork contains both customer and employee info). I know for a fact that all of these things are illegal and warrant OSHA contact, but it took me hours of looking for this information to not only find it in black and white, but decipher what the hell any of it meant.
I feel like this type of life saving information is made intentionally indecipherable to take advantage of the workers in the field. If I were to call the local chapter in my state (NC), what would even happen? Nothing? I get fired? Has anyone ever had any success with contacting OSHA?