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NFU Farm Safety Videos Aim to Reduce Farm Accidents Through Education, Awareness
2016-06-01 13:50:48| National Farmers Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2016 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome@nfudc.org WASHINGTON (June 1, 2016) As farmers busily work on the farm this time of year, National Farmers Union (NFU) hopes to raise awareness about farm safety issues and best practices through a series of 10 educational videos. The videos, available at www.NFU.org/farmsafety, educate […]
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Google Patents Tech to Limit Injuries in Vehicle-Pedestrian Accidents
2016-05-20 23:19:18| TechNewsWorld
The United States Patent and Trademark Office earlier this week granted Google a patent for "Adhesive Vehicle Front End For Mitigation of Secondary Pedestrian Impact." The patent application, filed a year and a half ago, credits Google employees Alex Khaykin and Daniel Lynn Larner as the inventors of the new technology. This latest patent grant is for "a system for protecting a colliding object from a secondary impact."
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GM Tells Ignition Switch Jury: 'Sometimes Accidents Just Happen'
2016-03-15 18:00:11| Automakers - Topix.net
"Sometimes, accidents just happen," a lawyer for General Motors Co. told a U.S. jury in defense of the carmaker at a test trial over a deadly flaw in millions of ignition switches.
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Nuclear accidents make mutant bugs and birds
2016-03-11 02:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche-Welle: Biologist Timothy Mousseau has spent years collecting mutant bugs, birds and mice around Chernobyl and Fukushima. In a DW interview, he shares some surprising insights into the effects of nuclear accidents on wildlife. DW: Professor Timothy Mousseau, did you collect these mutant firebugs [pictured at the top of the page]? Timothy Mousseau: Yes, the firebugs are really an eye-opener. My research partner Anders Moller and I were visiting Chernobyl on April 26, 2011. We were wandering around Pripyat...
Voluntary Safety Committees reduce accidents, injuries, fines.
2016-01-19 14:31:09| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
While safety committees are not required by OSHA, several states do mandate them. Safety committees, when designed and implemented properly, help companies reduce accidents, injuries, and fines. Specific benefits of well-run safety committees include peer-driven reviews of safe work habits as well as additional insight into illness and accident investigations. By knowing more, employees become fully invested in minimizing risk of citations, fines, and workers' comp awards.
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