Ken Calverley and Chuck Breidenstein | Special to The Detroit News Chances are good that by the time you read this today, you have already used a set of stairs. The odds are also very good that you did not know the second leading cause of accidental injury in this […]
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Consumer safety commission: AirBnB, Vrbo disable home elevators
WASHINGTON — A national consumer safety commission urged vacation rental platforms to require owners to disable home elevators for guests staying at rentable homes after the recent death of a 7-year-old in North Carolina. U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Acting Chairman Robert Adler specifically targeted online vacation rental platforms, […]
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Consumer safety agency asks Airbnb, others to issue warnings on home elevators following child’s death
The federal agency responsible for consumer product safety on Tuesday sent a letter to Airbnb, Vrbo and other vacation rental companies urging them to issue warnings and take other measures to address safety issues associated with some home elevators. The request from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) comes after a […]
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As Lockdowns Are Lifted, Uptick In Leisure And Hospitality Is Predicted Boon For Built-in Safety Options
A robust airline industry is essential to the nation’s security and financial system, which is why the trade received federal aid as part of the 2020 fiscal stimulus. But air travel restoration has been slowing down due to rising COVID instances — right now, it’s at about 40% of 2019 […]
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Four Steps To Food Safety
Using the Index, you’ll find virtually something right here, whether or not it’s a particular ingredient you’d like to cook with, a food regimen recipe, a seasonal or holiday dish, or even a particular cooking methodology. Moreover, Alyssa assures us from the very starting, all her recipes are examined and […]
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Wearing costume contact lenses for Halloween? Think about safety and don’t harm your eyes
Costume contact lenses are hard to resist on Halloween. Just pop a couple of contacts into your eyes and your face transforms into a monster, a demon, a corpse or a cat. For about $20 a pair, the lenses can make your eyes look anything but human. Decorative lenses, which […]
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North Colonie schools talk internet safety after upstate student’s suicide in catfishing scam
COLONIE — A local school district is talking to middle and high school students about Internet safety after a catfishing scheme targeting teens in upstate New York was linked to at least one suicide. The con artists lure teens on social media by posing as friends and convince them to […]
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Rutgers pre-spring practice defensive, special teams depth chart projection: Loaded at linebacker, questions at safety
Rutgers is bringing back 11 starters on offense, but it will need to replace a pair of key players on defense — one up front and one in the backend. Here is a look at the projected pre-spring practice defensive and special teams depth chart (spring drills are on hold […]
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Severe Weather Awareness; Safety Tips, Weather Alerts, Plan
Spring and warmer weather are prime time for storms and severe weather. Know how to be prepared and stay safe GREENSBORO, N.C. — We’re heading into spring and while excitement is building over warmer weather and flowers about to bloom, spring also brings severe weather to the Triad each year. […]
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Aledo, TX students design safety projects in battle vs. COVID
Aledo ISD maintenance worker Danny Gabbert holds up one of many doorstops he made so students and staff in the district won’t have to use their hands to open doors when going throughout the buildings. This is one of several projects, including touch-free sanitizing stations from the student engineering department, […]
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US safety agency rejects petition to recall Tesla vehicles
Tom Krisher, Associated Press Published 12:50 p.m. ET Jan. 8, 2021 Detroit – The U.S. government’s auto safety agency has rejected a request to investigate unintended acceleration in Tesla electric vehicles, saying the acceleration was caused by drivers pushing the wrong pedal. Brian Sparks of Berkeley, California, petitioned the National […]
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Gymnasts bending over backward to comply with new safety protocols, on and off the mat
Before practices began, Masconomet Regional gymnastics coach Alicia Gomes gathered her three senior captains. She realized there’s going to be something missing this year: the team’s high-five line. “ ‘These are going to be the holes,’ ” Gomes told her captains. “ ‘We have such fun, positive energy on our […]
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College students decide between family, safety, school protocols this Thanksgiving
Samantha Moore, a student at Missouri Western State University, is doing Thanksgiving a little differently this year. After having tested positive for Covid-19 this month, Moore, 21, has decided to skip the usual family-filled festivities she’d grown up enjoying this time of year. “We normally spend Thanksgiving with my mom’s […]
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College students decide between family, safety, and school protocols this Thanksgiving
Samantha Moore, a student at Missouri Western State University, is doing Thanksgiving a little different this year. After testing positive for Covid-19 earlier this month, the 21-year-old has decided to skip the usual family-filled festivities she’d grown up enjoying this time of year. “We normally spend Thanksgiving with my mom’s […]
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COVID-19 holiday travel: Train safety tips
Amtrak has new COVID-19 safety protocols you should know about when you book your ticket. There’s a limited number of tickets sold to allow for social distancing, and reservations will be required for seats on popular Southern California routes that don’t typically require them. Use the Amtrak app, go to […]
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Thanksgiving Dinner Safety Tips During Covid
Dr. Fauci, who is 79, said his three adult daughters, who all live in different parts of the country, have decided to skip the family Thanksgiving to avoid putting him and his wife at risk. He said people often wrongly assume they are safe if they just invite family or […]
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Peer-to-peer giving through Venmo is the new safety net
A college student pleading for grocery money. A driver in need of an unexpected car repair. A worker out of a job because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A single mom who needs to pay the internet bill to support her kids’ distance learning. In all of these cases, people turned […]
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What the rise of digital handouts on Venmo and Cash App says about our fraying social safety net
A college student pleading for grocery money. A driver in need of an unexpected car repair. A worker out of a job because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A single mom who needs to pay the internet bill to support her kids’ distance learning. In all of these cases, people turned […]
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A guide to safety, food, costume ideas and events in the Tampa Bay area
Trick-or-treating is up for debate all over the Tampa Bay area, and 2020 has offered up a bounty of costume ideas for people with nowhere to go. We have learned a lot over the last few weeks covering the planning of events and recommendations for a safe Halloween and wanted […]
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Long Island restaurateurs make safety plans for winter during COVID
Igloos, greenhouse seating, creative uses of tenting. Alternative solutions. All this and more are being implemented by creative restaurant owners and food service providers across Long Island in an effort to make dining safer this winter in the time of COVID-19 protocols, a panel of experts said Wednesday in the […]