Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency is ordering Tokyo Electric Power Company to improve working standards for its contracted workers.  There are about 3,000 workers struggling to control the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency recently inspected the working conditions at the damaged nuke plant, after continued concerns over protection for workers against radiation exposure.

They found eight main concerns, that TEPCo still hasn’t addressed.  The most pressing issue is that TEPCo is still treating contracted workers with a laissez-faire (hands off) attitude.  The result is that TEPCo lacks any information on the health and safety conditions of those workers.

The agency discovered that many contracted workers have never been shown how to use protective clothing, and there aren’t enough protective equipment for all workers, like full face masks.  The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency ordered TEPCo to provide more protective gear, and assign more of its own safety managers to oversee contracted workers.

This issue was reported months ago, and it’s clear that TEPCo has totally ignored the problem proving that it does not care about the safety of workers.

On top of that, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says TEPCo still hasn’t tested 1,500 workers for radiation exposure, something they were supposed to do months ago.