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Assaults Are Among Most Common Cause of Workplace Injuries for Women

Women suffer 70 percent of all nonfatal assault-related injuries involving days away from work and are disproportionately impacted by other safety issues, according to an analysis by the National Safety Council. The number of women who incurred assault-related injuries at …

Facing Bias Claims, Facebook Will Revamp Its Platform for Housing, Jobs, Credit Ads

Facebook Inc has agreed to change its paid advertising platform as part of a wide-ranging settlement to prevent discriminatory and “harmful” practices, the company and U.S. civil rights groups said on Tuesday. Under the agreement, Facebook will create a new …

Another Jury Finds Roundup Weed Killer Causes Cancer in First Phase of Trial

A U.S. jury on Tuesday found Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused cancer, a blow to the company eight months after another jury issued a $289 million verdict over similar claims in a different case. Tuesday’s unanimous jury decision …

Alliant to Offer AmWINS Program for Waste Operators, Haulers

AmWINS Group, Inc., a global distributor of specialty insurance products and services, has partnered with Alliant Insurance Services to service the needs of waste clients nationwide. Alliant’s WasteAssure clients, come April 1, will have access to coverage through AmWINS Program …

Why Drivers, Like Pilots, Should Be Trained to Use Autonomous Features

Should drivers using vehicles with autonomous features be trained on those features before they get behind the wheel? A new paper, “What Do We Tell the Drivers? Toward Minimum Driver Training Standards for Partially Automated Cars,” recently published by the …

Regulators Wonder If One Farm’s Tainted Milk Is Isolated Case or Broader Problem

For Maine dairy farmer Fred Stone, the discovery in 2016 that his cows were producing tainted milk has since brought financial ruin and threatened to shut down a century-old family business. Now state regulators and health experts are investigating whether …

U.S. Safety Agency Weighs Bids for Putting Automated Vehicles on Roads

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday it was seeking public comment on General Motors’ 15-month-old petition seeking approval to deploy a limited number vehicles on U.S. roads without steering wheels or other human controls. The agency also …

Brightway Insurance Independent Agent Program Kicks Off in 6 States

Brightway Insurance has kicked off its new Independent Agent Program with its first group of seven new Independent Agent Owners. Brightway Insurance, a national property/casualty insurance retailer selling through a network of franchised independent agencies, unveiled a no-upfront cost program …

Supreme Court Finds Manufacturers’ Duty to Warn Sailors Where Asbestos Added Later

Manufacturers have a duty to warn about potential dangers of parts with asbestos that were later added onto their products by third parties, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. The ruling, in a case involving sailors diagnosed with cancer, says …

Tesla Defends Factory Worker Safety as Injury Days-Off Rise

Tesla Inc. factory employees spent almost three times as many days off the job because of work-related injuries and illness in 2018 as the year before, an indication of just how much strain they were under as they manufactured electric …

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