Few times of the year are as stressful as the final two months of the year. At this time of year, you may have family obligations as well as holiday events, a busy work schedule, and traveling to take care of. All of this can lead to stress, which can easily lead to injury. When you feel stressed, you may have a harder time focusing and this can lead to car accidents, workplace injuries, and other injuries in Hollywood or your community.
Trucking collisions in Hollywood and other Florida cities occur for a number of reasons, including driver error and road design. However, three things affect the trucking industry as a whole more than other factors, according to experts. These three issues are people, technology, and weather.
Technology is changing the trucking industry in a number of ways:
1) By making trucking more transparent. Electronic logs, in-cab cameras, and other devices do not rely on driver self-reporting. Instead, they make it easier for truck carriers and even authorities to see what is happening during truck transportation.
Many people dream of going into business for themselves. Today, telecommuting, flex work arrangements, and self-employment are becoming more popular types of work. While being your own boss can allow you to embrace more freedom, it does not mean that you don’t have to worry about workplace safety. Workplace injury can still happen in your Hollywood workplace – even if your workplace is your home office.
If you are your own boss, that means that you are the one responsible for keeping you and your employees (if you have any) safe. To do so, you will want to:
Brake failure in trucks leads to many collisions in Miami and other cities. The frustrating thing is that in many cases these accidents are preventable. Often, brake failure can be prevented with:
Manufacturers have a responsibility to create safe brakes for trucks and cars. This means designing safe brakes and monitoring the manufacturing process to ensure that the final product is safe. Manufacturers are expected to test their products to make sure that they are safe and to recall any products that may be unsafe due to flaws. When brake makers fail to take reasonable precautions to ensure their products are safe, they can be held partly liable if their product leads to mechanical failure or to a crash.
Cooking is a big part of the holiday season, whether you are trying out new recipes printed in glossy magazines or are making tried-and-true family favorites. While the smells of cookies and other goodies baking is wonderful, cooking for the holidays does pose hazards, including burn injury hazards in your Homestead home as well as fire and food-borne illness dangers.
To make your cooking delicious and safe, make sure to follow these safety tips:
Smoke detectors are essential to keep you and your family safe. Make sure the one in your kitchen works, so that if there is a fire you have the best chance of getting out safely.
In Miami and across the country, tractor trailers and big rigs are tasked with transporting dangerous and hazardous chemicals – including fertilizers, fuel, flammable materials, and toxic chemicals – across long distances. There are many dangers linked to trucks carrying cargo:
Cargo spills of any kind can lead to debris on the roads of Miami and other communities, potentially causing secondary accidents. When dangerous cargo spills, however, it can cause severe damage, including poisoning bystanders. In some cases, spilled toxic cargo can cause fires or can remain on the road and in the ground for weeks or months, despite efforts to clean it up.
If you are shopping for friends and family and checking off your holiday shopping list, you will of course want to make sure that every present you give brings joy. The last thing you want is for a purchase to cause harm or injury. Unfortunately, each year products liability cases in Hollywood and Florida are launched due to defective products. You don’t want to give a gift that could harm someone, but unfortunately some products sold in stores are designed or manufactured negligently and may cause harm. To prevent giving these items as gifts, you will want to ask yourself a few questions:
Keep your receipts after shopping and be sure to check out official lists of recalls so that you will be warned if an item is recalled. Due to the risk of injury and recalls, avoid buying used toys, sports equipment, and child’s items (such as car seats), as used items may be damaged or may have been subject to recalls.
Truck driver training is an important part of preventing trucking accidents in Homestead and other communities. Commercial truck drivers may be operating vehicles that weigh tens of thousands of pounds. These vehicles have many blind spots and in some cases may be used to transport hazardous cargo. For all these reasons, driving a truck can be more dangerous than driving a passenger car, and truck drivers are expected to abide by more rules and pass stricter driving tests. They are also expected to get adequate training to ensure that they can stay safe and keep other users of the roads safe.
While Black Friday is behind us, the injuries reported around the world during these sales are reason enough to brush up on your safe shopping skills. The reality is that at this time of year many premises liability cases in Hollywood and Florida arise from shopping trips gone wrong. Unfortunately, some shoppers in our community are injured each year while visiting stores, shops, and malls and in some cases the injuries they sustain are life-threatening. At this time of year, there is also often an increase in thefts and other types of crimes.
When shopping this year, authorities recommend that you stay safe by:
Locking up your car, even if you will only be out for a minute, is a smart precaution that can help prevent theft and other crimes. You don’t want to be injured because your car made an attractive target for a thief and you happened to interrupt a crime.
Two new studies from Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) suggest that we need to reconsider how we look at distracted driving in Hollywood and other communities. According to the studies, people who use cell phones while driving do have more crashes and close calls when compared with other motorists, but cell phones do not seem to have an impact on overall collision risks.
The problem, according to researchers, is distracted driving itself and not cell phone use in particular. This is because drivers who are texting or using a cell phone may slow down or engage in other activities to reduce the risk of crashing. Drivers who are not on cell phones, however, are not necessarily safer because they are more likely to take part in other distractions – such as eating, talking with passengers, or smoking – when compared with drivers who use mobile devices.
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