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Smart Business Moment

Supplemental Employment with Competitors

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Supplemental Employment with Competitors

You work where?!?!?

Postal Service employees are prohibited from working for our competitors that deliver mailable matter or for a Commercial Mail Receiving Agency (CMRA) in any capacity.

Examples of our competitors include FedEx and UPS. The UPS Store is an example of a CMRA.

When you decline a second job with one of our competitors, you avoid a conflict of interest and contribute to the financial success of the Postal Service.

And that’s smart business.

Contact the Ethics Office (ethics.help@usps.gov) for guidance.

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Emergency Contact Information

Who Are We Going to Call?

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Emergency Contact Information

Who Are We Going to Call?

Update your emergency contact information. Keep it current.
It’s good practice to provide a non-local friend or family member as an additional emergency contact.

Ensuring the safety of employees is a USPS priority. And it’s smart business.

Smart Safety Moment

Hazardous chemicals

Understand the danger, by degree.

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Hazardous chemicals

Understand the danger, by degree.

Signal words on product labels help identify and compare the hazard potential of chemicals. DANGER is printed on a red background and identifies a high degree of hazard. WARNING is printed on an orange background and identifies a moderate degree of hazard. CAUTION is printed on a yellow background and identifies a reduced hazard.

USPS ensures employees get information on hazardous chemicals used in their work areas and that the information is communicated in a way they understand.

And that’s smart safety!

For additional information or guidance, contact your safety office.

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Personal protective equipment

The eyes have it.

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Personal protective equipment

The eyes have it.

Personal protective equipment designed to protect eyes and face includes safety spectacles, goggles, laser safety goggles, and side, face and welding shields. This equipment is required when employees face hazards such as flying particles, molten metal, liquid chemicals, acids or caustic liquids, chemical gases or vapors, biological hazards or potentially harmful light radiation.

Employees must wear protection from radiation during activities such as welding, torching, soldering, brazing and other operations that emit light.

This equipment must comply with the American National Standard Practice for Occupational and Educational Eye and Face Protection.

And that’s smart safety!

For additional information or guidance, contact your safety office.

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