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I am proud to announce that SAFTENG and The Chlorine Institute have renewed our partnership for another year (through 2026). Members of The Chlorine Institute receive a FREE SAFTENG membership. If you qualify, please contact me
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SAFTENG has:
- Over 18,000 categorized unsafe acts/conditions and accident/injury photos
- Over 1,500 ppt's & doc's in the SAFTENG Library
- Over 4,000 Technical Articles on Process Safety, Emergency Response & OSH topics
- Over 450 videos (those not allowed on YouTube Channel)
Many THANKS to my NEW Members and those who CONTINUE to support SAFTENG:
Effective measures include:
Actively enforcing existing 0.08% BAC laws, minimum legal drinking age laws, and zero tolerance laws for drivers younger than 21 years old in all states.
Promptly taking away the driver’s licenses of people who drive while intoxicated.
Using sobriety checkpoints.
Putting health promotion efforts into practice that influence economic, organizational, policy,...
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Young people:
At all levels of blood alcohol concentration (BAC), the risk of being involved in a crash is greater for young people than for older people. Among drivers with BAC levels of 0.08 % or higher involved in fatal crashes in 2009, more than one out of every 3 were between 21 and 24 years of age (35%). The next two largest groups were ages 25 to 34 (32%)...
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Every day, almost 30 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. This amounts to one death every 48 minutes. The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than $51 billion.
How big is the problem?
In 2009, 10,839 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (32%) of all traffic-related...
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In 2009, there were 10,839 fatalities in crashes involving a driver with a BAC of .08 or higher – 32% of total traffic fatalities for the year.
Traffic fatalities in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes decreased by 7.4 percent from 11,711 in 2008 to 10,839 in 2009. The alcohol-impaired-driving fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT) decreased to...
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The video is back, this time as part of an investigation. It appears the safety instructor has been suspended for this little stunt.
Safety instructor falls off ladder (Click Read More below for the newspaper article)
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MANY THANKS to my NEW & RENEWING “Partners in Safety”for their support!
Air Products since 2009, Benjamin Moore Paints since 2011, USEC since 2008, GRU since 2004, Soladigm since 2011,
ZION Solutions since 2008, AMG Vanadium since 2008
2011 Fatality Tracker
Electrical
73
(2010 = 90)
(2009 = 100)
Forklift/Manlift
Mobile Equipment
72
(2010...
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In some recent PHA’s for a client I have seen a pattern in some general assumptions that PHA teams should not be making, but often do. It involves the “consequences” for scenarios such as “LOSS of ELECTRICTY”. The catch is that there is a general assumption that with a “LOSS of ELECTRICTY” that everything shuts down. There may be two very...
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This video, ever how graphic and upsetting, demonstrates what happens when JUST ONE PERSON in a vehcile is NOT BUCKLED UP! They pose a LIFE THREATENING RISK to all occupants!
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Seat belts saved more than 75,000 lives from 2004 to 2008!
42% of passenger vehicle occupants killed in 2007 were unbelted.
A 2009 NHTSA study estimates more than 1,600 lives could be saved and 22,000 injuries prevented if
seat belt use was 90 percent in every state.
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Have air bags?
Buckle up anyway.
In most vehicles, air bags are only in the front and inflate only in frontal crashes. In rear or side crashes and rollovers, the seat belt can save you from serious injury or death.
Air bags inflate rapidly in a crash. If you’re not buckled up, you could be thrown too close to the air bag and seriously injured or even killed.
Air bags are more effective when you’re...
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