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Jul 31, 2017

Electrical vehicles are not environment friendly totally

Electrical vehicles do not have emissions at the place of their use. However, the electricity that is required for charging has to be produced somewhere and if this comes from fossils, then the place of power plants are polluted. Further, the transmission losses and efficiency during charging are to be taken into account.
The other side is that the environment impact for transport of hydrocarbons to places of use also need to be considered.
Most of the times, we see that electrical vehicles are pollution free and hype is being created. The waste created from batteries also has to be seen, they great improvements are made during last decade.
But, we have to understand that they are good only at the place of use for above reasons.
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Jul 30, 2017

Near miss incident - Tractor crossing rail track narrowly misses speed train

See the video here
http://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/caught-on-camera-shocking-moment-speeding-train-misses-tractor-by-inches-1730982
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Jul 29, 2017

LPG cylinder blast kills fireman - Selfie madness of public affects more

A 19.2 kg LPG cylinder bursts in a fire incident in a bakery. About 47 persons including 37 local residents and others including firemen, police were injured in the incident.
It is reported that the curious onlookers were mostly interested in taking selfies, affecting fire fighting operations as well as endangered fire fighters affecting their free movement.


See the news item here.
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2017/jul/17/cylinder-blast-in-city-bakery-kills-56-yr-old-firefighter-1629638.html
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Jul 25, 2017

Mistake by one - impact on all

Government authorities suspended works at all civil projects as a crane collapse in a site caused 7 deaths. Authorities would like to inspect all sites to ensure safety.
This shows that unless measures are taken by everybody in their work sites, their businesses can get affected, even if the mistake is by others in some other place. Industries of similar nature should interact regularly with each other to improve safety and implement the same. 
The following news item is an example.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-accident-idUSKBN1A809X?il=0
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Fire safety tips

Read seven fire safety tips to save life and UK's history of fire disasters: can be watched in the link below, that appeared in Manchester Evening News web site.




http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/seven-fire-safety-tips-could-13372757

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Jul 16, 2017

Sulphuric acid fumes leak from batteries affects 4 persons

The sulphuric acid fumes leak from batteries causes four persons at discomfort. 
Power supply was disconnected, and batteries were cooled with fans, as water can't be applied due to stored electricity and water on sulphuric acid will heat up further and aggravate the problem. Persons affected with toxic fumes were treated by attending personnel.

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Jul 5, 2017

Minimum view distance for road signals - an important information from Knoxville News Sentinel

http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2017/07/03/safety-concern-papermill-intersection-prompts-action/414437001/

It is stated in the above article, regulations require 390 feet clear view distance for vehicles moving at 40 mph. That is for vehicles moving at 40 mph speed (59 ft per second), sight distance time to see signals is recommended as 6.65 seconds.
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Flying rock from planned blasting crushes a car

During planned blasting for bypass road works, an exclusion zone of 200 m was maintained within which nobody will be permitted.
However, a car without inmates parked within this distance got crushed from the piece of rock that flew during blasting.
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10 major industrial accidents in Bangladesh during last 12 years - an article in Indian Express

A compilation of list of 10 major industrial accidents in Bangladesh during last 12 years is available. The link is as below:


Among these, six are of fire incidents, 3 are of building collapse including an 8 storey building collapse leading to 1136 deaths and several injuries, and one incident of toxic leak.

Above building collapse is worded as second major industrial accident in the world after Bhopal accident.
It requires tremendous efforts and careful planning when we plan to have buildings accommodating such huge number of persons with regards to emergency. It is a lesson for all of us.
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