Tag: safety regulation
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Overdue Combustible Dust Safety Reforms Mark Babine Explosion Anniversary
Introduction: Remembering Babine and the push for safer workplaces On the anniversary of the Babine Forest Products mill explosion, the United Steelworkers union (USW) and safety advocates reflect on a tragedy that claimed two workers’ lives and left more than 20 others injured in 2012. The incident served as a stark reminder that combustible dust—tiny,…
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Tesla Faces US Probe Over Self-Driving Cars Driving on Wrong Side of Road
Overview of the Probe The U.S. government has opened a preliminary evaluation into Tesla’s self-driving software following reports that the company’s autonomous vehicles violated traffic laws, including driving on the wrong side of the road and failing to stop at red lights. The investigation, led by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), spans an…
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GWR fined £1m over Bath train death safety breach
What happened on the Bath train? On 1 December 2018, near Twerton in Bath, a young woman was killed after striking her head on a tree branch while her head was outside a droplight window on a moving train. Bethan Roper, 28, from Penarth in Wales, worked for the Welsh Refugee Council, was a Unite…