Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, co-sponsored what they called a compromise package of safety standards for those Mexican trucks, including a safety audit for each truck firm before a U.S. operating certificate is granted, more scales and U.S. inspectors at the U.S-Mexican border crossings, and a requirement for Mexican truckers to comply with U.S. hours-of-service rules.
People think traffic lights are a guarantee of safety but the latest audit from Westminster City Council, for example, has shown that 44% of personal injury accidents occurred at traffic lights.
Throw in the Price-Anderson Act, the huge liability of working with radiation, beryllium and asbestos, the extensive training requirements, safety issues, QA audit requirements, and the host of accountants, lawyers and HR people needed to be a prime to DOE, and you can imagine that few small businesses could even submit a proposal to be a prime contractor to the Department of Energy.
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To get at the real picture, CEOs need to cut through several layers of management, talk to mid-level managers, and audit their companies' safety procedures.
The same month the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms did an unscheduled audit of her business. (It had a license to make firearms but didn't make them.) In July 2012 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration did an unscheduled audit.
And the current arrangements were criticised last year when a National Audit Office report raised concerns about the safety of storage of waste at Sellafield.
Dr Herxheimer, aided by Charles Medawar, from Social Audit Ltd, which has campaigned on antidepressant safety, examined more than 1, 000 yellow card reports about Seroxat.
Not only that, in the United States we hire independent third-party security companies, such as EWA, to audit our products in order to certify the safety and reliability of the products at the source code level.
The audit, led by Mr Dalziel in December, looked primarily at firefighter safety in a number of retained stations.
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In making this split, BP is now looking to create a new safety unit that will rule the groups operations like an inquisition as Dudley grants it powers to audit on an ongoing basis every single operation around the world.
Earlier this year it agreed to change its labor practices after an outside audit found widespread breaches of work rules, including 60-hour workweeks and regarding health and safety.
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