Safety
Friday Five: Rollercoasters, pavement, and videotape
August 3, 2012 — Paoli Hospital erected bright orange vehicle limit signs in its garage after a 45,000-pound fire engine truck was penetrated the concrete surface last July. Engineers determined that the truck was 10 times the recommended weight of what the garage could handle. The new entrance sign will warn drivers that the official […]
Is Texting While Walking A New Roadside Danger?
August 1, 2012 — With all the publicity surrounding No Texting and Driving initiatives and other distracted driving legislation, another facet of the cellphone complications not widely acknowledged has recently come into light — that of distracted walking. The unsung danger was thrust into the spotlight following the Associated Press’s release of a surveillance video in which a […]
Friday Five: “Disabled” Joggers and Olympic Lanes
This controversial signage has garnered many negative responses in the area (via Idaho Statesman). July 27, 2012 — An electronic board on Franklin Road in Caldwell, Idaho, shows a surprising comparison in protest of President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize. It features James Holmes, the man who murdered 12 people in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater, alongside a picture […]
Friday Five: Superhighways, broken signs, and the Denmark sex industry
An SUV is extracted from a parking lot elevator shaft, after plunging down it on Tuesday. (via AMNY) July 20, 2012 — On Tuesday, a luxury SUV plunged 40 feet into an elevator shaft at an Upper East Side parking garage. The 4,500 pound vehicle fell five stories in the accident which is still being […]
OSHA and BP Reach $13 Million Agreement on Texas Refinery Citations
BP settled 409 safety violations with OSHA, following a record-breaking number of citations since 2005. July 16, 2012 — BP Products North America has settled 409 citations with OSHA, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration. The settlement follows a $50 million payout in 2010, after an explosion in 2005 at the […]
Black Lung Cases on the Rise, Miners Demand Increased Safety Regulation
Black lung occurs from inhalation of toxic coal dust, which has been discovered at mining sates in increased quantities over the last decade (via MySafetySign.com). July 9, 2012 — Cases of Black Lung Disease, or Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis, have nearly doubled since the 1990s. Not recognized or well understood until the 1950s, Black Lung disease […]
Friday Five: This heat, those Olympics, and the traffic in Germany
In New York this week, a smoker’s advocacy group rallied against the unregulated placement of No Smoking signage in public parks and facilities July 6, 2012 — This week, Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment (CLASH), a smoker’s rights activist group, asked the state courts of New York in Albany to remove No Smoking signs in […]