Although communities commonly use sobriety checkpoints and increased police patrols to detect drivers under the influence of alcohol, a new review by the Colorado Injury Control Research Center and the Colorado School of Public Health reports there is not enough evidence to say definitively that these efforts to cut down the number of accidents and deaths from drunk driving.
Idling typically wastes almost a gallon of fuel per hour, puts more wear and tear on an engine than driving, and causes pollution that contributes to ozone smog, fine particle pollution, and increased carbon dioxide emissions, EPA notes.
The Bush Administration is committing almost $90 million over the next eight years to expand capacity at John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters announced yesterday. She also unveiled new rules designed to lower fares, increase consumer choices, and improve service for air travelers using JFK, Newark, and LaGuardia airports.
"These citations address a variety of hazards which, left uncorrected, expose employees to potential falls, fire, crushing injuries, lacerations, amputations, being caught in the unexpected startup of machinery or not being able to exit the workplace swiftly in the event of an emergency," said Christopher Adams, OSHA's area director in Syracuse, N.Y.
After two incidents were reported involving injuries to children and adults, Chance Rides Manufacturing is offering inspection/repair kits for approximately 85 of its affected rides.
"It is our intention that our efforts through the Academic Research Initiative, combined with the support efforts of other federal agencies, to help cultivate the nuclear scientists and engineers of the future," said Vayl Oxfod, director of the DHS Domestic Nuclear Detection Office.
National Transportation Safety Board Acting Chairman Mark V. Rosenker recently told the rail transportation industry to take advantage of newly emerging technologies that can provide the biggest safety improvements in coming years.
The agency plans to recruit and hire more than 17,000 new air traffic controllers over the next 10 years. Over the last three years, it has hired 5,000 new controllers and plans to hire more than 2,000 in fiscal year 2009.
The Jan. 2, 2008, motorcoach crash on U.S. 59 near Victoria, Texas, focused attention on regulation of that industry.
He has driven more than 1.4 million accident-free miles in 27 years on the road and has just been named the ATA 2008 National Truck Driver of the Year, considered the highest honor a professional truck driver can receive. "His dedication not only to the highest of safety standards but also to educating citizens and public officials on issues related to the safety of America's highways is unparalleled," said Con-way Freight President John G. Labrie.
"Numerous peer-reviewed scientific studies have concluded that automated enforcement, including red light cameras and speed cameras, is proven to reduce traffic crashes, injuries and deaths," said NSC president & CEO Janet Froetscher.
Americans have all but stopped buying houses at this writing, and car sales are dismal. What’s the worry?
20,000 Europeans ages 15-24 per year die from fatal injuries, twice as many as from all other causes combined, according to EuroSafe, the European Association for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion.
The National Transportation Safety Board's investigation of the Sept. 12, 2008, Metrolink train crash in Chatsworth, Calif., has now confirmed the engineer, who was killed along with 24 others, sent a text message from his cell phone less than a minute before the collision occurred.
Safety is top of mind for many manufacturers, but also growing in importance is the pressure to become “green,” or environmentally sound. GreenRoad Technology Inc., a fairly new driver safety company headquartered in Redwood Shores, Calif., has taken the basic idea of a traffic signal and reengineered it into a small device that gives real-time feedback on 120 driving maneuvers to increase safety. The device is installed on a vehicle’s dash and contains three colored lights -- red for unsafe, yellow for moderately unsafe, and green for safe.
Employers who use forklifts in their workplaces have a new resource to help keep their employees safe on the job. The Powered Industrial Trucks (Forklift) eTool is the latest Web-based training tool unveiled by OSHA.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters yesterday proposed a new rule that she said will improve motorcycle safety by making it easier for riders to identify and use effective helmets, instead of unsafe, "novelty" helmets.
ASSE has launched its 7th annual kids' "Safety-on-the-Job" poster contest, which is open to ASSE members' children, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews, and will have a Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 2009, deadline.
The policy soon will include a nine-element program to be used by rail companies in their bridge management evaluation.
Gov. Schwarzenegger signed SB 28 on Wednesday, the same day the expo of the 96th Annual National Safety Congress & Expo closed in Anaheim.