Workplace safety professionals who want the ability to interact with each other more than just once a year at trade shows and conferences now have a new resource.
These new bags--such as the designs show here--will allow passengers’ laptop computers to remain inside during X-ray screening.
NHTSA has a statutory responsibility to thoroughly study and test the issue before recommending changes to school bus transportation, which is already 44 times safer than the typical family car, said NAPT Executive Director Michael Martin. "We just want them to do their job," he added.
"A twenty-first century rail system cannot run safely on laws from decades ago," said the legislation's author, U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg. "We are risking too much by letting train crews work too long and leaving highway crossings unsafe."
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety administrator said the "demonstration project" has been a safety success, and this extension will persuade more Mexican firms to participate.
The card is a convenient, wallet-sized document for land and sea travel between the United States and Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean, and Bermuda. It is not valid for international travel by air, however.
"Many non-traditional ATVs do not adhere to even minimal safety requirements, nor do the companies provide training or safety information," said coalition spokesman Ed Krenik. "The poor quality of many of these ATVs create a danger for all ATV riders, particularly young riders, who are being targeted by these companies."
The regulation was enacted without notice because it adopts prohibitions verbatim from a 2007 law.
"We hope that citizens will contact their representatives in Washington and demand that the Transportation Department take positive action on this common sense rule immediately," said Stephen Owings, founder of Road Safe America.
A clean and historic break with the past is needed to encourage the future vitality of our country's transportation network, said U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters, who yesterday unveiled the Bush Administration's new plan to refocus, reform, and renew the national approach to highway and transit systems in America.
The project will provide information in four areas: a review of national practices and what other states have found, alterations needed in the Alabama bus fleet, analysis of Alabama school bus crash data, and a cost-benefit analysis.
New Federal data showing further steep declines in the number of miles Americans are driving is additional proof that the country needs new means--other than the gas tax--to finance the nation's transportation infrastructure, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters said yesterday.
Researchers in the University of Minnesota's Center for Excellence in Rural Safety (CERS) have mapped out driving fatalities in the nation with details on each death, so now you can see the "dead man's curve" on your commute or the "devil's triangle" in your backyard.
The campaign attempts to inform the public and elected officials about the seriousness of red light running, as well as law enforcement practices and tools that can make roadways safer.
July 31 meeting in Washington, D.C., comes 100 years after the U.S. hazmat transportation safety program began with enactment of the Transportation of Explosives and Other Dangerous Articles Act.
A state worker who had been hit four times by moving vehicles testified to Iowa legislators earlier this year about why the bill was needed.
"Each year the United States witnesses more than 7,000 needless deaths and thousands more injuries involving teen drivers. The Council supports effective safety programs and recognizes those who employ injury prevention measures we know can work," said NSC President and CEO Janet Froetscher.
The grant continues federal support of public education to reduce collisions between trains and motor vehicles at highway-rail grade crossings and discourage illegal trespassing along railroad rights of way.
Explaining the termination in Monday's Federal Register, the DOT agency said it has decided to address this as part of a comprehensive approach to backing safety by all vehicles.
Speeding is a factor in about one-third of all crashes, and costs society about $40 billion annually. Reducing speed not only saves lives, but also saves energy, GHSA said, recommending to Congress other changes to federal behavioral highway safety programs, as well.