Ironically Hayward came into his job three years ago promising to focus on safety after a series of accidents, including the 2005 Texas City, Tex. refinery explosion that killed 15 people.
Hayward who was vaulted into his new job three years ago after promising to focus on safety following a series of accidents including the 2005 Texas City, Texas refinery explosion that killed 15 people, has clearly failed on the job.
We actually believe there is tremendous potential to improve safety on our roads and reduce accidents.
The NTSB investigates transportation accidents and advocates on safety issues.
The mother of a Burnley boy rescued from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal is calling for safety fencing on the canal side to prevent further accidents.
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However, a new report by Reuters questions the validity of any cruise safety statistics because there is no public database on cruise line accidents.
On patient safety in general, the NHS is charged with delivering fewer accidents in key areas.
It says that there should be two independent bodies, one to investigate accidents and another to provide leadership across the industry on safety matters.
Among his recommendations were that there should be two independent bodies, one to investigate accidents and another to provide leadership across the industry on safety matters.
"The safety board has long been on record making recommendations about survivability when accidents do happen to make sure that operators and passengers are protected as much as possible, " Hersman said, but those haven't been implemented.
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What is missing is a process much like that of the National Transportation Safety Board, that automatically conducts investigations and issues reports on civil aviation accidents.
He quotes a study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety which suggests there is on average a 40% decrease in all accidents and a 90% drop in fatal ones when a traffic intersection is replaced by a roundabout.
Beyond the more than 30, 000 lives lost per year due to traffic accidents, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, tens of billions of dollars are spent each year on accidents, according to The Detroit News.
One option put forward by the trust, which researches road safety, is for a curfew on teenagers driving late at night, when most accidents involving teenagers occur.
Some safety yardsticks have not improved in many years, while recent accidents and incidents have exposed areas that still need work: safety on the ground at airports, the training of pilots to handle sophisticated computers, and greater awareness of flight hazards in some developing countries.
Another change was that the importance of process safety -- focusing on an operation as a whole, rather than small individual accidents -- was one of the lessons of the Texas City disaster and has now been emphasised in the drilling operations as well as BP's refineries, Mr Morrison said.
Today's safety efforts depend on expanding databases documenting the full gamut of close calls before they turn into accidents.
The American government's road-safety body has calculated that lane drift on motorways is responsible for 43% of all fatal accidents on highways there.
Sheila Merrill, public health adviser for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), said the group had been campaigning for improved safety around cords on blinds.
Insurers can and do sue to recover for accidents, he says, but given the expense of litigation they tend to focus more on safety campaigns, like the signs at most ski resorts urging helmets.
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We relied on data from the Aviation Safety Network, a private, independent initiative founded in 1996 to keep a public database of accidents.
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