EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – El Paso non-profit Xceed Resources has been giving work opportunities to those of all abilities in its decades of operation.<\/p>\n
The organization’s jobs usually include year-long work outside through contracts with the Texas Department of Transportation as well as the City of El Paso according to Executive Director Gabriel Chapman. <\/p>\n
Chapman said providing these opportunities is what makes the non-profit different by hiring those with any disability that could otherwise be ignored in the job market. <\/p>\n
“We are different, we provide a different type of workforce that’s overlooked,” Chapman said. “This is a lot of individuals that this could be their first job out of school. Or, they can also be having a hard time with job placement due to their disability.”<\/p>\n
Chapman also said the organization gives those with a criminal record in their past a second chance at employment. <\/p>\n
“This is more like a second chance program. People that have been incarcerated or have a hard time because of their criminal background to get a job.” Chapman said. <\/p>\n
But in order to deal with summer conditions, Chapman explained the extra safety precautions to ensure employee safety. <\/p>\n
This incudes urine color charts and shade annexes on every truck in addition to a cooler filled with ice water and even a second cooler with the drink of employees choice in the back of every Xceed truck. <\/p>\n
Employees like Project Manager Jesus Molina said the triple digit summer heat effects them in the field when it gets reflected back onto them. <\/p>\n
“Once you’re out there, you’re seeing a lot,” Molina said. “You even feel the heat reflecting from the ground and lot of times it’s going to be the rocks or the street itself.”<\/p>\n
Molina said another safety precaution is an app on every employees phone that measures temperature and humidity by the hour, even categorizing it from safe to dangerous. <\/p>\n
Also, the app lets employees know what symptoms of heat stroke and heat exhaustion to watch out for as well as how to contact OSHA if necessary according to Molina. <\/p>\n
Chapman said managers are routinely reminded to encourage employees to take shade brakes and drink enough water to stay hydrated in El Paso’s summer conditions. <\/p>\n
To Molina, these efforts are appreciated. <\/p>\n
“I love working for this company. It’s very unique, very different from other companies. It’s family oriented.” Molina said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – El Paso non-profit Xceed Resources has been giving work opportunities to those of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-335829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}