During June 6-9, a validation study on stress and attention in air traffic control was performed at Anadolu University. The data will be the main input for the preparation of guidelines for future air traffic control systems design, with a focus on automation.
"Our program involves a rigorous process to attract and retain the best safety instructors," explained ASSE President Tom Cecich, CSP, CIH. "We want to ensure a high-quality learning experience that safety professionals find beneficial."
"I want to be realistic, we are likely to have crews working at the scene for many days to come. We do not yet know what caused the fire. We do not know where it started and we do not know why it spread in the way that it did. Investigations have started but it is too soon to say any more," London Fire Commissioner Dany Cotton said June 15.
The agency's experts have grouped antibiotics into three categories – ACCESS, WATCH, and RESERVE – with recommendations on when each category should be used. This change aims to ensure that antibiotics are available when needed, reduce the development of drug-resistant bacteria, and preserve the effectiveness of "last resort" antibiotics.
The renewed license authorizes construction of new facilities, including storage buildings for low- and intermediate-level waste, in‑ground storage containers for intermediate-level waste, in-ground containers for heat exchangers, and storage buildings for used dry nuclear fuel.
Luc Tytgat, the European Aviation Safety Agency's director of Strategy and Safety Management, gave an update on the European Plan for Aviation Safety, a multi-year safety plan based on collaborative safety risk management and involving full consultation with all stakeholders.
Health Canada also this month announced changes to the Food and Drug Regulations that will better protect Canadians against the risk of antimicrobial resistance by better controlling access to veterinary antimicrobial drugs for food-producing animals.
A 28-year-old worker was fitting solar panels on a roof at the farm on May 19, 2015, when he fell more than 10 feet through a skylight and broke his back in three places.
This year's meeting is the final one with Dr. Margaret Chan as director-general of WHO. She told the delegates that countries should work to improve their collection of health data and should make health strategies more accountable.
Acosta discussed the importance of investing in women.
U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta has traveled to Germany this week in order to tour the BMW Group's apprenticeship training facility.
In January 2016, one of its ships was blown away from a pier and suffered minor damage to its lower bow ramp and bow doors, but shore infrastructure -- an elevated roadway and a ramp -- was extensively damaged. No one was injured.
During 2015, uninsured businesses submitted 260 workplace injury claims with WorkCover Queensland, costing approximately $6.5 million, and its audits of 650 Queensland businesses found that 3 percent were uninsured.
The agency has set three categories with different safety requirements, proportionate to the risk.
PEA surgery involves a heart-lung bypass, full cardiac arrest, and deep hypothermia. "The simulator may reduce the training time for residents by up to six months," said Dr. Marc de Perrot, a thoracic surgeon at UHN – Toronto General Hospital who worked with the council and Bayer to develop the simulator.
"The €150 million financing to be provided will not only enable Ford Otosan to meet demand from domestic and international markets, it will also increase capacity utilization at our production facilities. We continue to invest in many areas, including human resources and working conditions, occupational health and safety, as well as the efficient use of resources and the prevention and control of pollution," said Haydar Yenigün, general manager of Ford Otosan.
Its public consultation through July 5 asks about the job being done by three other EU agencies, as well.
Five teams have competed in the ARGOS Challenge for the past three years to design the world's first autonomous oil and gas surface robot, with the winner to be chosen May 11.
The IAEA International Conference on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Nuclear Facilities will be held Nov. 13-17, 2017, in Vienna, Austria.
The summit was held March 21-25 and included sessions from ASSE President Tom Cecich.