Whenever I try to better understand why accidents happen, I think back to my days in quality control, when I kept a “Would-you-believe” file of all the ways a product could be ruined or compromised during the manufacturing process. We constantly are bombarded daily in news reports with vehicular accidents, violence and workplace accidents and
Read more →The Minnesota Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the death of a construction worker who died at the site of the Highway 169 project. Construction worker David Earl Hyde was killed Feb. 20 when a large metal pipe rolled off a trailer and struck him. According to the state patrol, the 38-year-old Missouri man
Read more →Job interviews might just become a whole lot more interesting and informative if researchers at Iowa State University have anything to say about it. The average person has about a 50-50 chance of knowing when someone is lying. Iowa State University researchers are using eye-tracking technology to improve those odds, specifically for interviews conducted online.
Read more →Former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has been tasked to lead the agency he sued 13 times. On Feb. 17, Scott Pruitt was sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He subsequently resigned his position as attorney general of Oklahoma. read more
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