Strategies to Prevent Trenching-Related Injuries and Deaths, The Center to Protect Worker's Rights Trenching-related injuries continue to plague the construction industry, despite the availability of well-known and effective control methods, such as sloping and benching, shoring, and trench boxes and...
engineers, rental companies/distributors, universities/educators, associates/suppliers and government agency representatives who share the common goal of maintaining safety in the excavation shoring industry with the result of zero deaths and injuries....
The article reports on the responsibility of fire departments in responding to trench excavation rescues. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health states that work-related injuries and deaths continue to necessitate excavation training for fir...
greatest risk and are much more likely than other excavationrelated accidents to result in worker fatalities. Other potential hazards include falls, falling loads, hazardous atmospheres, and incidents involving mobile equipment. Trench collapses cause dozens of fatalities and hundreds of injuries each ...
eliminating violence against women and ensuring that women who are survivors of sexual violence have immediate access to psychological support, treatment of their injuries, emergency contraception, postexposure prophylaxis of HIV, treatment of sexually transmitted infections and safe legal abortion MultiUn ...
Tsunamis are major worldwide disasters; large events in 2004 and 2011 have reached death counts of approximately 228,000 and 18,000, and many more injuries, across the Indian Ocean and Japan [1]. Smaller events that are less widespread may still have a huge effect on local communities. One...