Tuesday Briefing
Study links up to 5 percent of road crashes to tire problems. A report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that underinflation — meaning tires 25 percent below their rated pressure — was the most common tire problem linked to crashes. A low tire reduces a vehicle’s stability even under ideal conditions, but it makes it significantly more difficult for a driver to maintain control in bad weather or during emergency maneuvers, such as swerving to avoid an obstacle in the road.
Crash Injures Motorcyclist
Upper Whalley.
It didn’t appear to be the motorcyclist’s fault, according to top Westville cop Lt. Marty Tchakirides.
Police closed off Whalley at Davis and Anthony streets around 6 p.m. because of the collision.
The cyclist was driving inbound there toward downtown New Haven when a woman driving a van in the opposite direction cut in front of him to make a left-hand turn, according to Tchakirides. The cyclist broke and swerved, smashing into the van’s back and tearing off the bumper.
Credit-reporting agencies fail to correct mistakes
"Mistakes on credit reports can inflict widespread damage. And because there are insufficient rules on how credit-reporting agencies must correct them, Americans are left virtually powerless to erase the mistakes."
Mother’s Day Fire Rescue
Two teens helped two women out of their homes as flames leapt from an Orchard Street house on Mother’s Day, moments after one of the women’s relatives had left a 73rd birthday
Filipinos Say 'Stand Up to China or Beg for Mercy'
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- This Friday, May 11th, Filipinos in the Philippines will rally in front of the China Consulate in Makati to protest China’s “creeping invasion” of the Philippines in the Scarborough Shoal. There will be similar simultaneous protest actions in front of all the consular offices of China in the United States and in Canada as well as in other cities around the world.
Obama Administration Heeds Industry Call to Ease Rail Safety Rules
- Amtrak
- Association of American Railroads
- Disaster
- Disaster
- Food and Drug Administration
- Generic Relations
- Man Made Disaster
- Occupational safety and health
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Person Career
- Positive train control
- Presidency of Barack Obama
- Quotation
- Rail transport
- Rail transport in the United States
- Railway signalling
- Safety
- Train protection systems
Wednesday Briefing
Industry-funded foundation that downplayed risks of narcotic painkillers shuts down. The closing of the American Pain Foundation comes as the U.S. Senate Finance Committee is launching an investigation into the makers of opioid painkillers and the groups that champion them. The foundation received 90 percent of its $5 million in funding in 2010 from the drug and medical-device industry, and its guides for patients, journalists and policymakers played down painkiller risks while exaggerating benefits.
- Disaster
- Disaster
- Employment law
- Food and Drug Administration
- Generic Relations
- Indictment
- Industrial hygiene
- Occupational safety and health
- Occupational Safety and Health Act
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Osha
- Person Career
- Quotation
- Right to know
- Safety
- Safety engineering
- Whistleblower
- Workplace safety
Seismic concerns stall Los Gatos school plans
- Civil engineering
- Disaster
- Disaster
- Earthquake
- Earthquake engineering
- Earthquakes
- Education
- Education
- Generic Relations
- Geography of California
- Geology
- Lexington, Kentucky
- Lexington, Massachusetts
- Los Gatos Union School District
- Los Gatos, California
- Mechanics
- Natural Disaster
- Person Career
- Person Communication
- Quotation
- Seismology
Workplace safety seminar May 15 in Casper
Workplace safety seminar May 15 in Casper
Wyoming energy and construction trade groups will host a worker safety seminar, “Building the Culture of Safety,” on Tuesday, May 15 at the Parkway Plaza in Casper, from 8:55 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The registration fee is $50, with lunch provided.
