With today's tighter job market, many scrapyards have turned to temporary or leased labor to fill their staffing needs. Doing so offers some business advantages but also some additional risk. Without proper safety training, temporary workers can injure themselves or others. The RecycleGuard program has seen a trend in related losses that include a leased worker killed while repairing a conveyor belt, a temporary staffer who broke his leg closing a stuck overhead door, and a temporary employee who directed a peddler to a restricted part of the yard, where the peddler was struck by a forklift. In addition to facing the human toll of these incidents, the yards that experienced them faced significant financial losses.
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