I'm unsure what to do at this point. I love my job, but I'm worried about management ignoring safety protocols.
I work for a cannabis growing/processing facility. We have to wear face respirators with special cartridges to spray pesticides/herbicides/fungicides on the plant. This happens 3-5 times per week. OSHA requires employees to have proper fit testing and be medically evaluated before they can wear respirators. No one here has ever been medically evaluated and we have not had training on respirator safety (until today because I kept telling our safety officer that we need this as it's an OSHA violation, but we have been spraying for the last 6 months ). I have been bringing up the issue of medical evaluations and I get ignored (it can all be documented through emails BTW).
Do I call OSHA and make an anonymous complaint? I'm afraid I'll get fired if I do as it will be obvious it's me. Management is busy opening their new growing facility, however, safety of the employees should take precident. We already had one girl with a faulty face respirator and had to get her lungs checked out to make sure she's okay.
I should also mention I am on the safety committee. Workers used to share respirators (eew, during a panny?!) and never changed their cartridges because no one trained them on this (they need to be changed every month according to manufacturer specifications). I had to get our safety coordinator to stock backup cartridges and masks and tyvek suits.
How do I go about this? Any advice is greatly appreciated.