Inland River Shipyard Safety

Abstract Shipyard work is a hazardous occupation with an injury rate that doubles construction or general industry. Workers are exposed to constant danger due to the extreme working conditions, confined spaces, considerable heights, and surroundings. On a daily basis, shipyard workers are faced with a multiplicity of hazards that can be a great potential for many injuries due to the environments they are confronted with. Workers are consistently exposed to extreme processes such as welding, painting, and sandblasting that have a direct effect on worker’s health. Though better equipment and special tools have surfaced, many workers are still being injured while employed in the maritime industry. A good way to discover means of reducing injuries is to study incidental cases from the past and learn from previous mistakes. Identifying these key breakdowns in safety that led to major incidents and analyzing corrective measure that are readily implementable can create a safer and more efficient workplace. Learning from past mistakes in shipyards is vital if we are to keep from repeating them. Safety in inland river shipyards has increased over the years due to many new regulations set by OSHA and from employers setting clear goals to reduce incidents by implementing a comprehensive safety program. With a team effort through awareness and proper communication, employers have surrounded themselves with specialized personnel to adequately train their employees and reduce incidents

Roger K. Shaw to Mr. Meredith (4 October 1962)

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Drug Testing As An Element Of The Everlasting Drug War

Over the past decade, the federal government, through the legislative branch, the executive branch and the judicial branch, has attempted to thwart drug abuse and drug smuggling

Optical Spectroscopy of Bright Fermi LAT Blazars

We report on HET and Palomar 5 m spectroscopy of recently identified $\gamma$-ray blazars in the {\it Fermi} LAT Bright Source List. These data provide identifications for 10 newly discovered $\gamma$-ray flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ) and six new BL Lacs plus improved spectroscopy for six additional BL Lacs. We substantially improve the identification completeness of the bright LAT blazars and give new redshifts and $z$ constraints, new estimates of the black hole masses and new measurements of the optical SED.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in Ap

Librarians: Key Partners in a State-Wide Book Distribution Outreach Program

Book distribution programs targeted at young children and their families that include the children own-ing the books have been in existence for a long time. Results are provided from a multi-year program evaluation of a unique, state-wide book distribution program developed in 1997 by the Idaho Commis-sion for Libraries called My First Books. The program is unique among book distribution programs because it relies on local librarians to deliver and showcase the books each month during the academic year in a variety of public and private early childhood care and education settings. My First Books thus becomes a powerful mechanism for library outreach to local childcare and education facilities, parents and caregivers of young children, and the children themselves. Program evaluation results reveal a highly popular and effective program for all of these constituencies that fits well within the resources available in public libraries of all sizes throughout Idaho

Informal Learning as Opportunity for Competency Development and Broadened Engagement in Engineering

Informal learning is increasingly being recognized as a way to complement the formal curriculum within engineering and provide additional opportunities for competency development while engaging diverse students. Learning about engineering occurs throughout life, via experiential and spontaneous opportunities that inform our understandings of the world. Learning is not confined to the engineering curriculum and class time but, rather, continues informally and implicitly throughout the daily lives and activities of university students. Often framed in contrast to formal learning, informal learning is more as it represents a significant portion of students’ time and effort and contributes to their persistence, competence development, and broadened engagement. This chapter provides an overview of informal learning, discussing its definition, history, and settings and activities relevant to engineering education. The second section of the chapter focuses on the benefits and outcomes of informal learning, related to competency development and engagement of diverse learners. The third section identifies implications and provides recommendations for engineering researchers and practitioners to study, integrate, and recognize informal learning as an opportunity to prepare the current and future generations of engineers for 21st-century challenges, via cultivating the requisite competencies and engaging students with a range of backgrounds and experiences

A staged approach to reducing musculoskeletal disorders (MSD's) in the workplace: A long term follow-up

Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) remain the most common form of occupational ill health in Great Britain. Recent research by the authors (Whysall, Haslam and Haslam, 2005) involved the development and evaluation of a new and innovative approach to reducing MSDs. These authors applied a model from health psychology (stage of change model) to develop interventions more closely matched to worker and manager stage of change. Twenty four interventions were monitored within a variety of organisations for up to six months. Tailored interventions (matched to stage of change) were found to be more effective in promoting riskawareness, promoting behaviour change aimed at reducing risks, and in reducing self reported musculoskeletal discomfort in a number of body areas. The study described in this report involved a longer term followup at 15 months postintervention and at 20 months postintervention to ascertain whether the improvements seen at 6 months persist in the longer term. The results show that the benefits in behaviour change and symptom reduction persist over a longer period of followup. Tailored interventions were found to be more effective in promoting behaviour change and reducing selfreported musculoskeletal discomfort over a 20 month followup period. These findings suggest that scope exists for improving the success of interventions by tailoring advice according to stage of change. This approach increases the uptake, implementation, and maintenance of risk reducing measures. This report and the work it describes were funded by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Its contents, including any opinions and/or conclusions expressed, are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect HSE policy