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Have you ever wondered if the air your kids are breathing at their school is safe? Well, so has the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA). The US EPA has completed sampling outside air at 63 elementary, middle, and high schools in 22 states. Even better yet, they have completed the analytical work associated with these samples and have uploaded more than 22,500 results to the EPA website. The EPA is now analyzing The Bhopal Disaster has been in the news again with the eight former company executives getting convicted of negligence. A court in the Indian city of Bhopal returned the verdict on June 7, 2010, more than 25 years after the incident. What was the Bhopal Disaster? For those of us old enough to remember, the words “Bhopal, India” brings to mind the very tragic events of December 2, 1984. On that day a These are tough economic times and businesses are looking to cut costs and save money. Trained workers are safer workers. The facts bear this out. Shortsighted statements I’ve heard include; “We don’t have problems in that area, so we’re cutting back on training.”, when the training was most likely the reason for the lack of problems. During a recent visit to a construction project, I came across a very common and unsettling problem, improper roadway protection and inappropriate high visibility clothing. A worker wearing an open-weave reflective vest (over a blue t-shirt) was working inside an active temporary traffic work zone; he was removing concrete curbing using a jackhammer with his back turned to oncoming traffic, and the work area lacked roadway protection. More often than not, construction workers and supervisors |
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