If you were the CEO of a company that wasted over $80 million a year, injured numerous workers, and lost untold efficiency--and it was all preventable--wouldn't you be just a little concerned? The company I'm describing isn't fictitious--it's the U.S. Air Force--specifically USAF maintenance. It's the dilemma posed by the...
It's called a fatality review -- a way for the Colorado Department of Human Services to learn more about the death of a child who has been on its radar in the past five years. Last year, Colorado had so many child deaths requiring a fatality review...
BAGHDAD AFP — An American soldier killed in a weekend roadside bomb attack in Iraq became the first fatality in a new-style armoured vehicle designed to protect troops, the US military said on Tuesday. "This was the first fatality involving an IED roadside bomb attack on a MRAP anywhere,"...
The Oregon Home Builders Association has partnered with the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division to help reduce construction accidents and fatalities in the state.
NAIROBI AFP — A man was shot dead and several were injured at a violent rally in western Kenya on Thursday, officials said, as pre-election mayhem raged ahead of this month's vote. The fatality occurred when rival groups clashed at the campaign meeting in Kakamega district, about 350 kilometres...
JOHANNESBURG AFP — Tens of thousands of mineworkers downed tools in South Africa on Tuesday in a one-day strike over safety standards, accusing their bosses of putting lives at risk for the sake of profits. In the first stoppage by the National Union of Mineworkers NUM since the end...
LOS ANGELES AFP — The recent wildfires that devastated southern California are believed to have claimed an eighth fatality, following the discovery of a body near the US-Mexico border, it was reported Monday. The San Diego Union Tribune reported that searchers found the body of a 37-year-old father-of-three near...
To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Annmarie Edwards, +1-301-871-5852, annmarie.edwards@gmmb.com, for Mothers Against Drunk Driving; or Misty Moyse of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, +1-469-420-4558, misty.moyse@madd.org MADD and Health and Safety Leaders Stand United Behind Lifesaving 21 LawWASHINGTON, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by Mothers Against Drunk Driving:WHAT: A new...
KINSHASA AFP — The number of suspected cases of Ebola in a remote area of central Democratic Republic of Congo has fallen slightly in recent days, health authorities said on Monday. "In the past week we have seen a slight dip in suspect cases. On average we have one...
MOGADISHU AFP — Rival sub-clans fought over access to wells in central Somalia, killing at least 20 people and wounding several others on Saturday, elders said, as the countryside sank into a vortex of violence. Also Saturday, two people were killed and four others wounded in the capital Mogadishu...
Motor vehicle crashes -- not crime or terrorism -- are the No.1 killer of healthy Americans in foreign countries. And the threat to travelers is poised to increase dramatically as worldwide economic growth gives more people access to motor vehicles. Corporate employers, including energy giant Chevron,...
PHNOM PENH AFP — Dengue fever deaths in Cambodia so far this year have eclipsed fatalities in 2006 as the country battles one of the worst outbreaks of the disease in a decade, medical officials said Thursday. Some 182 fatalities have been recorded for the first half of this...
MIAMI AFP — A small plane crashed into two homes Tuesday killing five people, injuring three others and causing two houses to burn down near Orlando, Florida's international airport, officials said. "We have five confirmed victims on the debris site and we are in the process of stabilizing the...
PARIS AFP — Researchers in Switzerland have successfully immunized mice against the H5N1 strain of bird flu using human antibodies taken from survivors of the deadly virus, according to a study released Tuesday. The antibodies, reproduced at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, also vastly enhanced the survival rate...
Memorial Day was created after the Civil War to honor the dead from that conflict, America's bloodiest. The tradition has grown to include the veterans and fatalities of all the nation's wars. The death of former Arizona Cardinal Pat Tillman in Afghanistan was the first combat fatality for an NFL...
To: TRANSPORTATION EDITORSContact: Alison Wenger of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, +1-717-783-8800 HARRISBURG, Pa., May 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Crashes on Pennsylvania roads dropped to the lowest point in more than 40 years last year and claimed fewer lives than 2005, according to PennDOT Secretary Allen D. Biehler, P.E. PennDOT statistics...
ASMARA, Eritrea AFP — In front of a row of staring children, an Eritrean deminer wearing a knee-length Kevlar jacket and a helmet painstakingly probes one of the world's most dangerous minefields. Although perilous, the task must be done, especially in heavily-mined rural Eritrea where many roam farmlands on...
The first European Road Safety Day on 27 April was an event that is destined to occur every year from now on, each time giving the European Commission the opportunity to assess efforts exerted to reach the goal elaborated in the 2001 White Paper on transportation: reduce...
As I write this article for Flying Safety we are rapidly approaching our 60th Anniversary this September as an independent service, and I have now been in the job as the Air Force Aviation Safety Division Chief for going on 10-months. As I look back at our past, it is...
WASHINGTON AFP — US First Lady Laura Bush on Wednesday unveiled a new plan to provide 500,000 bed nets, which guard against mosquitoes that spread the illness, for Zambia. "Through the new partnership we're announcing today, mosquito nets will be distributed to Zambia's most vulnerable households," Laura Bush said...
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