"It's plain and simple: when you need your life jacket, you need it on," says Al Johnson, the U.S. Coast Guard's First District recreational boating safety specialist, commenting on the correlation between boating fatalities and the lack of the survival equipment used.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood recently announced the availability of $1.5 billion in TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) Discretionary Grants for capital investment in surface transportation projects. Grants will be awarded on a competitive basis to projects that have a significant impact on the nation, a region, or metropolitan area, and can create jobs and benefit economically distressed areas.
This year's awards recognize research that made ambulances safer for EMS workers and passengers and also EMS protective clothing recommendations used in the 2008 edition of the NFPA 1999 standard.
The guide from the American Trucking Associations' Agricultural and Food Transporters Conference covers fatigue, the agricultural hours of service exemption, hiring, management, and more.
Yesterday, transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today presented Merchant Marine Outstanding Achievement Medals to civilian mariners who participated in the rescue of the passengers and crew of US Airways Flight 1549. The event was held at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City, overlooking the site of the Flight 1549 crash landing on the Hudson River.
Charles Hurley, tapped by the president a month ago to lead the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, won't get the job after all, according to newspaper reports.
"Plain and simple, if things go wrong on the water and you’re not prepared for the immediate shock of sudden cold water immersion, your chance for survival is greatly reduced," said Al Johnson, the recreational boating specialist for the First Coast Guard District in Boston.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood recently applauded Florida for enacting a new primary seat belt law that is expected to save the lives of more than one hundred Floridians each year. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), seat belt use is the most effective protection against serious crash injuries, reducing the risk by 50 percent.
The manufacture of PCBs was banned in 1979. "These federal rules are intended to protect human health and the environment from risks posed by these toxic chemicals," said Daniel Duncan, EPA's regional PCB program coordinator in Seattle.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced the creation of a motorcoach safety action plan and new roof standards that will significantly strengthen vehicle roof structures and improve rollover crash protection.
The $93.6 million, 180,000 square-foot building project will house the U.S. Transportation Command, the U.S. Army Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, and the Defense Intelligence Agency, and is expected to be completed in the summer of 2010.
The annual seven-day event will be observed in multiple countries and will include the awarding of the annual "safety-on-the-job" children's poster contest winners, one of whom is Abigail Helser, 8, of Portage, Wis., whose work is shown here.
Several Tennessee safety groups are taking part tomorrow at Bumpus Harley Davidson in Murfreesboro, with a motorcycle training, road tests, and a bicycle safety course for kids.
Every year in the United States, nearly 100 workers are killed in forklift-related incidents and, according to OSHA, "tens of thousands" more are injured. Truck tipovers are the leading cause of the fatalities, followed by workers being crushed between a vehicle and a surface.
The Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (MACOSH) will meet May 19-20, 2009, at the Sheraton Anchorage Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss topics such as speed limits and safety zones in marine terminals and commercial fishing, among other issues. Notice of the meeting appears in the April 27, 2009, Federal Register.
A two-week enforcement crackdown to raise public awareness resulted in 4,075 tickets given to violators, but the Division of Highway Traffic Safety says the percentage of drivers violating the law declined.
The Department of Transportation recently announced that it will create a new consumer program to help parents and caregivers find a child seat that fits in their vehicle. The program is the result of a comprehensive review ordered by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to improve child passenger safety and Federal child seat standards.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) made its entire Bird Strike database available on a public Web site on Friday, April 24. Portions of the database have been publicly available since the information was first collected in 1990, but the public will now be able to access all of the database's fields.
Implemented in 1997, BNSF's Product Stewardship Award is presented to shippers who transported a minimum of 500 loaded tank cars of hazardous materials during the previous year with zero non-accident releases (NARs) (releases that are not caused by a derailment or collision) during the entire transportation cycle.
This photo shows part of the 2008 ceremony, held April 25. The annual event honors 56 Washington State Department of Transportation workers who have died in work zones since 1950. On May 4, WSDOT will again deploy an automated camera to catch work zone speeders.