| A lift company has admitted breaching health and safety laws after a banker was crushed to death. |
Lift company pleads guilty over City banker’s gym death
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Her widower Nebojsa Dorontic, 39, said ThyssenKrupp Elevator UK’s guilty plea had “robbed” the family of justice. |
“After seven long years, the companies involved have walked away determined that they will never have to explain why simple maintenance was not carried out that would have saved my wife’s life.” Read more at news.bbc.co.uk |
Molecule tells key brain cells to grow up, get to work, study shows (3/17/2010) |
| About four out of every 10 cells in the brain are so-called oligodendrocytes. These cells produce the all-important myelin that coats nerve tracts, ensuring fast, energy-efficient transmission of nerve impulses. Mixed among them are proliferating but not particularly proficient precursor cells that are destined to become oligodendrocytes when needed but, for now, remain suspended in an immature, relatively undifferentiated state somewhere between stem cell and adult oligodendrocyte. |
Then, the scientists induced the oligodendrocyte precursor-to-adult transition in normal cells and, using the McManus lab’s technology, checked for microRNAs whose levels changed greatly. The amount of one particular microRNA, miR-219, increased by 100-fold at this juncture, Dugas said. That finding has been confirmed in another laboratory that will also publish soon on this subject, Dugas and Barres said. Read more at www.brainmysteries.com |
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Baloney health and safety stories are not only very infuriating to those in the industry but indisputably damaging to both people’s awareness of health and safety and, potentially, their own physical health and personal safety. These so called ‘bonkers conkers’ stories have been about as welcome as a plague of newspaper reporters hungry for that next ‘kiss & tell’ headline. Read more at www.smarthss.co.uk |
The Thames Tunnel opening was a finale to London’s 2010 East Festival. The tunnel was only open on Friday and Saturday and was the first time pedestrians have walked the tunnel in 145 years. It was once considered the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’ and half the city of London paid to walk the tunnel when it opened in 1843. The tunnel, which runs between Rotherhithe and Wapping and was built by Marc Isambard Brunel, took 18 years to dig and was the first to built underneath a navigable river. In 2010 it will reopen officially as part of the London Overground. |
If you can’t organise something - blame health and safety Cheese rolling event cancelled |
An annual cheese rolling race that attracts thousands of spectators has been
cancelled due to health and safety fears.
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“We have had to cancel on the advice of the police and local authorities
this year because of the issues of health and safety and other aspects,”
said Richard Jefferfies of the organising committee.
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Inspector Steve Chester of Gloucestershire Police said: “We have
discussed the security and policing needs for this event with the organisers
in the past but sadly they have failed to co-operate with us.
Read more at www.telegraph.co.uk |
Safety for passengers of the Moscow metro is a very serious issue. The biggest problem is a possibility to fall down on railway tracks, especially during rush hours. About 150 people fall off the metro platforms every year. Suicides make a half of such incidents. Over 1,500 people were injured in the Moscow underground in 2008, the Izvestia newspaper wrote. |
Moscow Metro Kills Over 1,500 Every Year |
Massive 200-kilo doors, installed during the construction of metro stations in the center of Moscow decades ago pose a serious danger to many. They can be very difficult to open taking into consideration strong draughts at the station entrance. |
The Moscow metro administration says that they do everything possible to guarantee safety to passengers. Nevertheless, tragic incidents in the subway continue to occur on a regular basis. Read more at newsfromrussia.com |
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