Health & Safety Always an important factor to consider. You can never understate the need to prevent injury to your workforce. Like all other things, we're constantly finding out new products and ways to improve health and safety.
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I’m shocked ! There’s gambling in the casinos; and mini-cars like the Toyota Yaris, Honda Fit and Daimler AG’s Smart Fortwo did poorly on frontal crash tests with mid-sized automobiles from the same manufacturers. |
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Thursday 16 April, 2009 02:34 PM |
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Last year Joel Sadler and his classmates faced a daunting challenge in their Biomedical Device Design and Evaluation course: Create a low-cost, high-performance prosthetic knee joint for amputees in the developing world. Dubbed the JaipurKnee Project, the team aimed to help rectify lives ravaged by war and diseases such as diabetes. |
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Wednesday 15 April, 2009 01:12 PM |
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Vasilios Manousiouthakis, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been awarded $2.1 million in grant funding to build a state-of-the-art hydrogen fueling station on the UCLA campus.
A $1.7 million grant from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and a $400,000 grant from the state's Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC) will go toward the construction of one of the largest hydrogen fueling stations in California, with a capacity to produce 140 kilograms of hydrogen a day for use in hydrogen-powered vehicles. |
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Monday 13 April, 2009 04:44 PM |
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In a step change beyond traditional processes, Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) software from SIMULIA (the Dassault Systèmes’ brand for realistic simulation), is being used to enhance mine design and engineering simulation at a number of major mines around the world. |
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Monday 13 April, 2009 10:37 AM |
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They may also be capable of driving off-road, allowing access to remote areas of the country, and expandable treatment areas providing 360 degree access to the patient.
New designs showing the possible future for the UK's ambulances have been unveiled at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London. |
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Tuesday 7 April, 2009 10:15 AM |
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In 2007, home structure fires caused 2,865 civilian deaths, 13,600 civilian injuries, and $7.4 billion in direct damage, according to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). The fact is, approximately 84 percent of civilian fire deaths occurred in homes.
Dying in a home structure fire, currently a major national tragedy, is not necessary and should no longer be happening! The American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE) is in the forefront of a campaign to encourage the installation of fire sprinklers in residential dwellings. According to NFPA, fire deaths are reduced by 87 percent in one- and two-family dwellings when sprinklers are installed and activate. |
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Tuesday 31 March, 2009 01:21 PM |
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Interrelated, and sometimes overlapping, safety standards have been developed as a result of the European Commission's enactment of the wide-ranging Machinery Directive . Different safety standards apply to manufacturers of machines and electronic control system and drives |
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Tuesday 17 March, 2009 10:24 AM |
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The current demands for drilling in the oil exploration industry include environmentally clean solutions that are efficient and safe while seeking reservoirs, which are significantly harder to access.
The challenge to service companies then is the task of integrating new technologies with increased reliability at higher safety standards.
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Tuesday 10 March, 2009 05:12 PM |
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Victorian bushfire survivors are already talking about going home. Even the survivors with nothing to return to seem eager to just get on with it.
But when they do go home, when they do rebuild, it will no doubt be done with new fire plans in place.
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Thursday 12 February, 2009 01:12 PM |
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THE commission of inquiry into last year’s tragedy at a building site in Kampala has come up with a damning report, showing gross negligence by most of those involved in the sh147b project.
The 23-floor Pension Towers, belonging to the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), was being constructed by Roko Construction.
Alterations of the project design without approval, inadequate site supervision and the use of unqualified staff by Roko was responsible for the disaster that killed seven workers and injured scores when a retainer wall collapsed on them on October 14, 2008. |
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Wednesday 11 February, 2009 03:12 AM |
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Mass-production technology has revolutionized so much of modern life that we take it for granted - but early iterations of all technologies were hand-built, relying on the skills and intuition of master craftsmen for the effectiveness of each end product. It might surprise you to learn that in the field of facial reconstructive surgery, the vast majority of work is still being done in a pre-industrial revolution fashion - and results for patients who present with horribly disfiguring facial tumors or bone injuries are as varied and inconsistent as the human hands that do the work. |
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Tuesday 10 February, 2009 03:01 PM |
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Biomedical engineers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston are leading a multi-institution initiative to produce a bio-compatible compound designed to mend serious leg fractures.
The researchers have been awarded $5.2 million in initial funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop “fracture putty” that could be used to regenerate bones shattered by roadside bombs or other explosive devices
The researchers have been awarded $5.2 million in initial funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop “fracture putty” that could be used to regenerate bones shattered by roadside bombs or other explosive devices
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Thursday 29 January, 2009 12:43 AM |
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To a handful of people in a Route 34 office, there was a quiet sense of pride as passengers from a downed US Airways jet were rescued from the bone-chilling waters of the Hudson River on Thursday. |
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Monday 19 January, 2009 12:15 PM |
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Crab-like microscopic robots can be used to grip cells in response to chemical triggers, US scientists have shown. The remote-controlled 'microgrippers' - which the team have already demonstrated can pick up tiny beads and tubes - are a step towards devices that could perform surgery or high-tech engineering under the microscope.
'Currently, micromachinery is actuated by electrical, pneumatic or hydraulic signals - which means they need to be connected up with wires or batteries,' says David Gracias, who led the research team at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, US. This makes current micromachinery bulky, expensive to fabricate and difficult to manoeuvre in hard-to-reach places - since the wiring often needs to be fed through tubing to the target location. |
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Wednesday 14 January, 2009 11:31 AM |
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Tiny robots that aid surgical procedures and medical checkups currently are the focus of intense research and study. In fact, some of these small-scale devices already are in practical use.
The robots, equipped with arms less than 1 centimeter long, can move around inside the human body and treat affected areas, echoing ideas first set out in science fiction. The small devices are able to repeat subtle movements precisely, making doctors' lives easier. Furthermore, due to the size of the robots, patients need only small incisions to undergo major surgery.
Four domestic facilities have introduced medical robots using systems developed by U.S. companies, such as the da Vinci surgical system.
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Monday 12 January, 2009 12:48 AM |
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Propane experts spent two hours Wednesday night explaining the engineering and safety features of a 30,000-gallon liquid gas tank proposed to be moved from Mount Hermon Road to an industrial spot on Janis Way.
They said the risk of an accident an explosion or fire that would destroy nearby homes, businesses and a private school is less than the chance of someone dying in a car accident, plane wreck or getting struck by lightning. |
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Friday 9 January, 2009 02:32 PM |
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Housed in a long-abandoned nursing home outside Waynesburg, Greene County, off the R&D path trod by the likes of Carnegie Mellon University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a firm that comprises primarily Ph.D.-educated researchers using some of the most modern equipment found anywhere. |
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Friday 2 January, 2009 03:49 PM |
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Late Monday afternoon officials with Pinellas and Hillsborough counties took the advice of engineers and closed the entire Friendship Trailbridge .
“This bridge at its current conditions is unsafe and should be closed immediately,” concluded the 261-page final engineering report from outside engineering firms Kisinger Campo & Associates and SDR Engineering Consultants. |
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Wednesday 24 December, 2008 09:21 AM |
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At team of surgeons and chemical engineers from the University of Rochester has designed a device to end the steady stream of five-and-under children who arrive at the hospital with hands burned by clothing irons. Their just-published research results on the new “iron shoe” argue that it could considerably improve home safety.
About once a month, and 212 times since 2003, a child comes into the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Strong Regional Burn Center with a contact burn from a clothing iron. They tend to come from lower income families where the ironing is more likely to be done on the bed or floor than on an ironing board. The typical burn is second degree on children who have touched the iron with their fingers, and third degree if the child has yanked on the cord, causing the iron to land and remain on the back of the hand. According to a 2006 study published in the American Journal of Behavioral Health, about 78,000 U.S. infants and toddlers are treated in ambulatory care settings each year for contact burns from a hot object or substance, with clothing irons among the leading causes.
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Wednesday 17 December, 2008 01:41 PM |
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The Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech won the grand prize at the 2008 International Capstone Design Fair with a trio of pole-climbing serpentine robots designed to take the place of construction workers tasked with dangerous jobs such as inspecting high-rises or underwater bridge piers.
Team RoMeLa scored the cash prize of 1 million won (won is the currency of South Korea) with its robots, the HyDRAS-Ascent (Hyper-redundant Discrete Robotic Articulated Serpentine for climbing), the HyDRAS-Ascent II, and CIRCA (Climbing Inspection Robot with Compressed Air), at the 2008 International Symposium on Educational Excellence 2008 competition.
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Friday 12 December, 2008 01:54 PM |
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No one can predict what bridge, levee or water main will fail next. But some problems are widely known, and work is long overdue. As PM's new special report makes starkly clear, we need to begin rebuilding the nation's infrastructure somewhere. Here are 10 great places to start.
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Thursday 11 December, 2008 08:47 AM |
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