Company administrators from an Ohio manufacturing enterprise deemed problematic by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will now find out what OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program (SVEP) is all about. It won’t make life easier for Reliable Castings Corp., located in Shelby County in the city of Sidney. Placement in SVEP follows a determination…
Commercial truck drivers are a consistent focus of federal safety regulators’ scrutiny, with probes constantly being conducted into matters ranging from their work schedules and sleep patterns to their overall health and use of log books. That makes sense, of course, with there being a legitimate need to ensure that the trucking industry is…
A massive vehicle pileup this past Tuesday morning on Interstate 90 near Cleveland could have brought even worse consequences had motorists not already been driving cautiously because of whiteout conditions. That is the assessment of one of the drivers involved in the chain collision that occurred near Leroy Township on Christmas Eve. He stated…
According to a university professor who studies holiday traffic patterns, today might be the last of “the bad days” preceding Christmas for drivers to be out on the roads in Ohio and nationally. The reason for that, says David Brown of the University of Alabama, is this: The “mix of traffic that’s kind of…
Semi-trucks are dangerous vehicles. Their size alone can make them hazards on the roads. Combine the size of the trucks, dense traffic and possibly fatigues drivers and truck accident might just be waiting to happen in Cleveland. While the cause of a truck accident that happened in Cleveland last week isn’t known, two 18-wheelers…
It’s not exactly news when the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is under fire for some alleged regulatory-related deficiency. A recent case in point concerns its Voluntary Protection Program. The VPP was established under the Reagan presidency in the 1980s with a two-fold aim of improving management of OSHA’s limited resources and recognizing companies…
Years from now, when Toyota Motor Corp. executives look back on the history of their company, they will undoubtedly remember and reflect on the term “sudden acceleration.” Those two words and what follows from them are well known to consumers and motorists across the country, including in Ohio. Most centrally, and in the minds…
There is a reason why drunk driving is illegal in Ohio; it is wildly dangerous and can injure or kill innocent motorists. When an irresponsible driver gets behind the wheel after having had too much to drink, he or she has slower reaction times, impaired judgment, and lowered inhibitions. That combination alone can be…
In thinking about commercial truck safety in Ohio and nationally, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is quite obviously focused on the long term. That is certainly evident from one strategy employed by the agency to place attention on industry safety and reduce truck accidents: have kids engage in safety belt-related art work. Although…
Do classes on distracted driving, well, really drive home the point that behaviors such as texting and talking on phones while behind the wheel are as dangerous as driving drunk — and sometimes more deadly — and truly need to be stopped? Although evidence on that seems to be mixed, safety advocates will certainly…