Acouple of interesting articles in the newsletter of the Washington On-Site Sewage Association do a good job explaining the risks lurking in the material you work with every day. Executive Director John Thomas also points out that it’s possible that you could be bringing those pathogens home with you – all the more reason to wear standard personal protection equipment including gloves and goggles when you run restroom service routes.“Research has shown that workers with routine sewage exposures exhibit respiratory dysfunction, fatigue and headache, infection and increased incidences of cancer,” Thomas writes in the Pipeline newsletter. He stresses to look
