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CVSA Honors Best Roadside Inspectors

The 2011 North American Inspectors Championship took place in Orlando this monthin conjunction with the American Trucking Associations' National Truck Driving Championship.

Liberty Mutual Takes Aim at High-Cost Comp Claims

The company updated an earlier predictive model by analyzing more than 825,000 lost-time claims and 140 million individual medical billing transactions.

DoD Funding Research Project on Combined Burn/Trauma Outcomes

The American Burn Association and its Multicenter Trials Group are accepting proposals for it. The award funding is $500,000, and the project is expected to launch by fall 2013.



Worker Fatally Struck in Stomach by Debris, Firm Fined $194,400

The willful violations involve a failure to have proper machine lockout/tagout procedures to prevent equipment from unexpectedly starting up and failure to have proper point-of-operation machine guarding in place.

Nuclear Technology Boosting Guatemalan Agriculture

IAEA and the Food and Agriculture Organization deployed sterile insect technology to help curb the fruit fly population by sterilizing insects en masse. Higher sales of tomatoes, bell peppers, and papaya resulted, increasing pest control and packing/canning jobs in Guatemala.

Increasing Piracy Changes Volvo Ocean Race's Route

Organizers said Dryad Maritime Intelligence Service Ltd. and the sport's governing body, the International Sailing Federation, advised them to make the changes because crews would face too much risk.

Former FEMA Chief's Firm Starts State Fair Investigation

Witt Associates, headed by CEO James Lee Witt, has been hired to conduct an independent analysis of the Indiana State Fair's preparedness and response to the Aug. 13 storm and collapse of a stage just before a concert.

ASSE Releases Updated Standard for Handling Explosives in Construction, Demolition Operations

The A10.7 standard is applicable to the storage, handling, and use of commercial explosives and blasting agents in the construction industry.

$165,000 Fine in UK Forklift Rundown

A 60-year-old worker at a Scottish meat plant was run over by the driver of a forklift who couldn't see him because the vehicle was so badly loaded, HSE reports.

Thousands of Amateur-Built Aircraft Users Answer Survey

NTSB's chairman thanked more than 5,000 owners, operators, and builders of experimental amateur-built aircraft who have completed the survey by the Experimental Aircraft Association.

NASA Panels to Discuss Resupply Vehicles' Status

The Sept. 9 meeting of the NASA International Space Station Advisory Committee and the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel will focus mainly on the development of two commercial cargo vehicles the agency is considering.

CDC: Practice Four Healthy Behaviors, Have a Longer Life

Not smoking provided the most protection from dying from all of the causes examined.

More Research Suggests Dogs Can Smell Cancer

The researchers carried out a number of tests to see if specially trained sniffer dogs were able to reliably identify lung cancer compared with healthy volunteers and volunteers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and whether the results were still found with the presence of tobacco.

Big Decisions Pending on Key Canadian Bridge

The Champlain Bridge, a bottleneck on one of Canadian's busiest arteries, will be increasingly expensive to maintain in coming years, engineers warned. Quebec's premier wants the federal government to participate in choosing how to replace it.

NFPA to Release New Handbook on Medical Gas, Vacuum Systems

The handbook will serve as a comprehensive resource to help users clearly understand medical gas and vacuum systems requirements covered in the 2012 edition of NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities Code.

OSHA Tosses Salad Maker $51,000 in Penalties for Repeat Violations

Two repeat violations with penalties of $30,000 involve to the company's failure to ensure workers were wearing safety glasses and ensure the proper level of compressed air was used for cleaning food particles.

Sensear's Growth Continues

Five years after the company was founded, it has landed a deal with the U.S. Marine Corps that opens more opportunities with the U.S. military, CEO Justin Miller says.

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