Category: Construction, Safety Open Roof Holes and Roofing Injury Prevention TASA ID: 3404 A roofing foreman and crew arrive at the season's first commercial re-roofing project, as he directs his team to load tools and materials to the rooftop, workers set up ladders to gain access to the roof above. Onsite less than five minutes and without notice, one of the roofers inadvertently loses his balance, falling onto a weathered skylight, shattering the opaque-plastic, falling 60-feet to the concrete floor below, and perishes from blunt force trauma. Read more
Category: Construction, Safety Roofing Construction Toxicity and Flammability Hazards TASA ID: 3404 In order to reduce energy costs in roofing construction, contractors install cool roofs1 aka Single-Ply Roofing, as estimated by Bob Craig in EDC Magazine, "The majority of new roofing is a white single-ply membrane, either TPO (thermoplastic polyolefin) or PVC (polyvinyl chloride). This is due mostly to new energy codes that require reflective roofing to reduce heat absorption into the structure.” Read more
Category: Maritime / Boating Accidents, Safety What's Your H2O (Safety) IQ?: How well can you answer these 20 boating and water safety questions? TASA ID: 1723 1. [a] How many drowning deaths occur in the U.S. annually? In 2014, the total went down to about 4,000 per the National Safety Council. In 1980, there were 8,000 drownings nationally. Why: CPR, *PFDs - improved life jackets, EMS, **ETH-updated information about alcohol/aquatic dangers. But much more can be and needs to be done.*(Personal Flotation Devices-Life Jackets) ** (Ethanol-Grain alcohol, as in beverages) Read more
Category: School Safety/Violence Preventing Violence - Priority Number One TASA ID: 468 Preventing violence is fast becoming every school administrator's number one priority, or is it? It has become increasingly clear that schools and the culture they create can become a hotbed environment for random acts of violence, crime, and fear. If school managers (principals, assistant principals, counselors, and even school superintendents) fail to recognize and work to alter the present school culture that inadequately prevents bullying, harassment, and intimidation among students and staff, then we will continue to see students act out in the most disturbing ways. Read more
Category: Safety, School Safety/Violence Five Critical School Safety Issues TASA ID: 2774 This consulting company's research team has provided biyearly school safety reports for Congress since the year 2000. The following list was developed from interviews with teachers, school security personnel, police and principals from 120 school districts throughout the United States. Read more
