Workers in many industries often work with chemicals that they know very little about. Unless they are specifically trained and carefully monitored by their employers and managers, workers can suffer serious injury, illness or death due to hazardous chemical...
Adults have long been lamenting the idea that students can no longer seem to pay attention in school. Critics argue that a standard lesson taught verbally by a teacher is no match (in terms of entertainment value) for the smartphones, tablets and televisions kids are...
People who worked in the construction or transportation and those who served in the U.S. military many years ago are among those who are disproportionately at risk of being diagnosed with an illness related to asbestos exposure.Asbestos was commonly found in products...
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx voiced his ardent approval recently of a new agreement reached between his agency and a broad consortium of automobile manufacturers. He called it "a strong stand in favor a new approach ... that leans heavily...
In a recent post, we began a discussion about data that was recently released regarding the safety and efficiency of self-driving vehicles. We noted that the California Department of Motor Vehicles asked Google and six other companies to disclose information about...
Californians tend to be trend setters, whether they mean to be or not. When Californians become brave enough to try new sports, new styles, new laws and new ways of living, one area of the country or another almost inevitably follows suit. One of the latest trends...
They are behemoths, you can't see around them, you can't see the exit signs coming up ahead, sometimes they drift in and out of lanes with the same attention span a coloring 3-year old gives to lines. When a truck shares the roadway with you, it often feels like they...
It is always difficult to hear and grasp the extreme sorrow and distress of a horrific accident, but it may be even more difficult to process when the accident occurs over the holidays. For an unusual sort of accident to happen twice in one night, to two separate...
