Category: Articles, Chemicals / Toxic Substances, Construction, Environment, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts, Safety OIL & GAS PIPELINE ACCIDENTS: Failure Mechanisms in Non-Technical Language TASA ID: 18867 Oil and gas pipeline construction in the U.S. has grown steadily over the years at a rate of approximately 10,000 miles per year. As of 2019, more than 2.6 million miles of natural gas and 219,000 miles of hazardous liquid pipelines were operating in the United States.The U.S. Department of Transportation’s PHMSA agency began tracking serious accidents in 2000. The latest failure rates reported by PHMSA show 0.01 failures per 1000 miles for hazardous liquid pipelines, 11 failures per 1,000,000 miles for gas distribution pipelines, and 0.008 failures per 1000 miles of gas transmission pipelines. Despite such low probabilities of failure, accidents do occur often making news due to the spectacular way they fail and the likelihood of deaths and injuries. Read more
Category: Articles, Medical & Healthcare, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts Failure of Medicine for Centuries: From Flawed Science to Money Science TASA ID: 1793 A study published in 2000 concluded that at least 44,000 and perhaps as many as 98,000 lives were lost each year from preventable medical errors [1]. This startling number was disputed [2] and the debasing was revolved around preventability [3, 4]. A study published in 2003 reported a lower limit of 210,000 deaths per year associated with preventable harm in hospitals [5]. My studies have shown the actual deaths that could be attributed to medicine are about 30 million each year in the world because medicine has systematic errors in its foundation. Read more
Category: Articles, Business & Commerce, Food Safety and Production, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts, Safety How the Food Industry is Managing COVID-19 TASA ID: 18725 The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the way the world operates, and no one was prepared for it. One of the essential businesses that were given the OK to keep running was the food industry. Food manufacturing, beverages, dietary supplements and functional foods and restaurants are still showing at their locations, while most people are encouraged to work from home. This article wants to present different aspects of how the food industry in general has been managing the pandemic, using different public resources to obtain reliable information. COVID-19 news and scientific reports are always changing and while we are all trying to understand it, we cannot stop operations: we all have to eat. Read more
Category: Articles, Business & Commerce, Medical & Healthcare, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts, Safety HAVE NEGLIGENCE AND COVID-19 CONSPIRED TO HARM YOUR CLIENT? TASA ID: 14071 Has your client’s workplace or medical provider stepped up to the plate and provided or employed safe, adequate and fully appropriate personal protective equipment or proper safeguards to meet the unprecedented challenge of COVID-19? Has your client contracted the virus due to lack of attention to these details? Read more
Category: Articles, Education, Politics, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts Electoral College Vote Bias During The 2016 Presidential Election Updated August 31, 2020 TASA ID: 3831 The following report is a detailed study relating to the imperfections of the Electoral College. Of the five presidents who have won the presidency without receiving the most popular votes, two of them (President George W. Bush and President Trump) have been elected since 2000. For the most part, as long as the winning president received the most popular votes, the details relating to the Electoral College were given little thought. However, due to the amount of confusion and frustration concerning presidential elections since 2000, it is becoming more necessary to explain to Americans how the Electoral College actually works. Read more