The award is the highest honor bestowed on an individual safety professional by the NSC in recognition of outstanding service to the field of safety and health.
The leading cause of this increase has been attributed to abuse of prescription painkillers--primarily opioid analgesics such as oxycodone, methadone, hydrocodone, and more.
The effort seeks the safety profession's help in achieving gains in home and community safety that match what has been accomplished in workplace and highway safety.
A leading transportation company with annual revenues of more than $10 billion per year, FirstGroup America transports more than 2.5 billion passengers a year.
"We want people to be aware that whenever they see a fork lift truck--whether it's at work or in their local garden centre or DIY store--they need to be careful, they need to keep clear, and they must certainly never assume the operator has seen them," said FLTA Chief Executive David Ellison.
The action is a temporary prohibition pending formal rulemaking. A June 2008 accident and the Sept. 12 Metrolink collision in Chatsworth prompted the ban.
More Americans are buckling up than ever before, with 83 percent of vehicle occupants using seatbelts during daylight hours, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters announced recently. In 2007, 82 percent used seat belts.
The new policy will be enforced starting 30 days from now.
The Metrolink engineer's cell phone records confirm he had sent and received messages last Friday, when his train ran through a red signal and hit another train, killing 25 people.
Did you know that if you are driving at a speed of 65 miles per hour, you are traveling at approximately 100 feet per second? At this speed, if you were to look down for a few seconds, you would travel the length of a football field. A lot can happen in a very short time.
Part I of this article was devoted to understanding Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) expectations of carriers regarding regulatory compliance and the methodology FMCSA uses to measure carrier compliance and assign carrier safety ratings.
The federal government is making $5 million available immediately to begin funding work to repair roads, bridges, and airports damaged by Hurricane Ike, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters announced yesterday during a visit to the Houston region. She added that more funds will be made available for repair and reconstruction work once damages assessed for the region's transportation network have been completed.
More than 9,000 postal facilities are getting educational materials that explain how injuries and death can result when children get too close to delivery vehicles.
U.S. Department of Transportation Chief Economist Jack Wells yesterday noted that increasing transportation spending does not immediately create new jobs. Unemployment rates and the way the money is spent are factors.
If a motor carrier contests the denial of a safety permit, claiming crashes that caused its rate to be in the top 30 percent of the national average weren't preventable, the agency will consider it.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has developed outreach materials to assist bus and motorcoach companies in providing pre-trip safety information to their passengers.
Only the Volkswagen Rabbit did worse than the Toyota Prius in “fender bender" tests by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Over the past 10 years, the company, which operates 1,632 sites across the nation with approximately 11,900 employees, has been inspected 37 times by OSHA and cited for similar violations.
Some Ford F 150s and other vehicles contain a defective cruise control switch that could lead to a fire at any time, even while the vehicle is turned off, parked, and unattended, the agency says.