The association's 25th annual conference will take place in August at the same San Antonio convention center where ASSE's PDC will be held June 28-July 1, 2009.
The simulation tool can identify worst-case locations for fires, optimal locations for detectors, and sensor alarm levels when fire systems are certified. The systems must alarm within one minute of the start of a fire.
The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public hearing on the safety of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services operations. The three-day hearing will begin on February 3, 2009.
In other international news, France reported fatal accidents rose by 16 percent in 2007, and 3M bought a small food safety company in Norway.
Also, the International Organization for Standardization, which is the world's largest developer of consensus standards, will have a new secretary-general beginning Jan. 1: New Zealand accountant Robert Steele, shown here.
National Transportation Safety Board Acting Chairman Mark V. Rosenker recently discussed the issue of underage drinking emphasizing the need to maintain the Age 21 law before the Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) National Symposium on Underage Drinking, in Washington, DC, Rosenker noted that each year, there are more than 40,000 highway fatalities, more than any other mode of transportation.
A six-page response posted Nov. 6 by the safety organization says the study commissioned by the Virginia Transportation Research Council did not validly assess whether camera enforcement reduced intersection crashes or not.
"This case sends a clear message that OSHA will not tolerate retaliation against whistleblowers," said Richard S. Terrill, OSHA's regional administrator in Seattle.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, shown here, says the grants program has matured, moving "from capability building to performance-based planning and investment."
"By synchronizing the way that air cargo is secured on both sides of the Atlantic, we're taking another potential vulnerability off the table for terrorists," said DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff.
The American Trucking Associations listed 18 actions, adopted recently by its board, that ATA considers critical to reduce highway crashes among all motorists. A national 65 mph speed limit is one of them.
The main finding is that insurance claims for animal collisions are nearly three times higher during November than the typical month earlier in the year.
NIOSH and partners will hold the International Conference on Road Safety at Work on Feb. 16-18, 2009, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. Conference co-sponsors include the World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization, International Labour Organization, U.S. Department of State, and the National Safety Council.
The National Transportation Safety Board issued its 2009 Federal Most Wanted List of safety improvements.
The three lawsuits follow two similar lawsuits filed in September and are part of the attorney general's ongoing crackdown on trucking companies operating at California’s ports that deliberately misclassify workers to gain an unfair competitive advantage.
However, the Liberty Mutual/SADD study of 3,580 students at 29 high schools across the country found only 57 percent of teen passengers would speak up to stop the driver from racing other cars.
Public and private transportation organizations from across the country were recognized for their commitment to safety at the American Road & Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation (ARTBA-TDF) eighth annual "Roadway Work Zone Safety Awareness Awards" lunch.
The agency says it has surpassed congressional expectations mandated through the 9/11 law of screening 50 percent of cargo on passenger-carrying aircraft by February 2009 and 100 percent of cargo by August 2010.
At 25 deaths on average per 100,000 workers in 2003-2006, this industry is on par with high-risk industries such as agriculture and mining. About a third of those who died of injuries in landscaping were self-employed.