When there is financial squeezing going on, most fingers are pointed in opposite directions. One only has to read the long list of attorneys, cause and origin experts, marketers, suppliers and defendants down stream from liability to recognize that interests are being protected at all levels.
Read More A March 2002 incident involving a Kentucky propane distributor provided a grim reminder of the security challenges that still face the bulk logistics sector.
Read More My fascination with card playing began as I watched the TV show Maverick. I learned the skills of pokeralways included banter and usually ended with the phrase “My old Pappy used to say . . .†just asMaverick would gather up the pot.
Read More Without integrity, any safety success is just a flash in the pan.
Read More I confess right here that I am old enough to remember seeing Burma Shave signs along the highway from the back of our Rambler station wagon. Boy, that hurt to admit. Every few hundred feet an ironic saying or poem would whiz by, line by line, until the last sign, the closer, would always read: Burma Shave.
Read More The propane industry lost a true safety leader last month with the passing of Norman L. Bushey.
Read More Thinking more about the potential for terrorist attacks or accidents involving your trucks or bulk storage facilities? Lots of people in the business are doing that these days.
Read More Many times managers view the issue of safety through rose-coloredglasses. What we can’t see often looks pretty good, in a compromising sortof way.
Read More Ever since Sept. 11, our nation has had to do some growing up and accept responsibility for our actions and our compromises. It’s like someone pulled the blanket off all the stuff that was too good to be true.
Read More Rising demand and wear and tear on the nation’s roadways – not problems with security, per se – is causing the biggest problems for transporting hazardous materials. Improving roadways would increase hazmat transit safety more than specifically addressing hazmat transportation shortcomings, according to a report from the Research and Special Programs Administration.
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