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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• David Hasslehoff Wet The Bed Again?

  
  Bitch Pleaz — Authority: 141
  Wednesday night at LAX, BP sources spotted David Hasslehoff looking relaxed & VERY “happy” even laughing when the paps got into a fight with his limo driver!Less than 24hrs later, a ambulance  was called to his home, but they would not confirm who they were transferring to hospital!Maybe it’s time for a ...
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• Development of a more accurate assessment of roughness parameters for flooring

  
  What's new at HSE — Authority: 144
  Slips and trips are the most common cause of major injuries at work and they occur in all workplaces; 95% of reportable major slips result in broken bones. In a typical year, slips and trips account for over 33% of all reported major injuries and approximately 20% of over-3-day injuries to employees. View research ...
  2 days ago

• Homer Simpson: the new face of health and safety at work

  
  XpertHR - Employment Intelligence — Authority: 136
  In a move that somehow makes perfect sense, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) has chosen Homer Simpson as the new face of its health and safety at work campaign (on the RoSPA website). Homer Simpson (on the Wikipedia website), who is of course safety inspector at the Springfield ...
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• Obama’s hands-off strategy vindicated?

  
  WE Blog — Authority: 485
  Some administration officials are saying that the progress on health care reform legislation, and the increasing likelihood that it will become law, vindicates President Obama’s largely hands-off strategy to reform. Rather than come out with his own reform plan, as President Clinton did, Obama set broad principles ...
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• RR761 - Differential pressure hazards in diving

  
  What's new at HSE — Authority: 144
  There has been continuing occurrence of diving injuries and fatalities caused by differential pressure. A wide ranging review into differential pressure incidents, across the diving industry is presented. The review found a total of 66 differential pressure incidents of sufficient quality for inclusion in the report. ...
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• Life prisoner complains over giving up pet!

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Nov 27 (ANI): Paul Brown, a murderer serving a life sentence, has claimed that his human rights are being violated after prison authorities did not allow him to keep his pet budgie with him.The 42-year-old Paul Brown made an official complaint calling the decision “cruel”. Brown, who stabbed a man to death ...
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• Economy Suffers Loss Due to Bullying, Reports Unison

  
  The Contester Blog — Authority: 130
  Unison spoke to around 7,000 workers recently and found out that they have been bullied by their associates quite often. In fact, more than one third reported being bullied, which does not bode well as it is double of the number of workers being bullied in 1997. Bullying of workers include refusal to give ...
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• Mechanical integrity management of bulk storage tanks

  
  What's new at HSE — Authority: 144
  Following the Buncefield incident the importance of preventing loss of containment from bulk storage tanks has come to the fore.  A significant factor in ensuring contained fluids are not accidentally released is the continuing mechanical integrity of the tank structure. View research report: RR760 - Mechanical ...
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• Christmas in Nanny State

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 154
  Friggin Nanny States!!! Want a health and safety approved Christmas tree? Go give the Dorset town of Poole a ring, they bought a 33ft,  £14,000 one so it wouldn’t be a danger to society! Gone, with the “potential” wind, is the £500 “traditional Norway fir tree” and in with the new” fake traffic cone ...
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• Information on amendments to hazardous substances consent legislation

  
  What's new at HSE — Authority: 144
  This circular informs of changes to the Planning (Hazardous Substances) Regulations 1992 (the Consent Regulations) brought about in England by the Planning (Hazardous Substances) (Amendment)(England) Regulations (the Amendment Regulations) which came into force on 1 October 2009. Note: These Amendment Regulations ...
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• London Borough Introduces Naked High Street

  
  A Tangled Rope — Authority: 426
  In a bid to reduce traffic accidents by making the road safer and the pedestrian areas – possibly – more attractive the London Borough of Camden has announced plans to introduce the UK’s first ‘naked’ High Street. Following experiments in Scandinavia (where else) that demonstrated that even partially ...
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• Remove Speed Cameras and then what happens?

  
  An Englishman's Castle — Authority: 554
  Pocket GPS World - Swindon Speed Cameras Its now been almost four months since Swindon Council famously scrapped their fixed speed cameras. Swindons five fixed cameras were decommissioned on July 31 due to funding issues. Councillor Peter Greenhalgh, stated that...
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• Remove Speed Cameras and then what happens?

  
  Politics Index — Authority: 160
  Pocket GPS World - Swindon Speed Cameras Its now been almost four months since Swindon Council famously scrapped their fixed speed cameras. Swindons five fixed cameras were decommissioned on July 31 due to funding issues.Councillor Peter Greenhalgh, stated that on the roads where the speed cameras had been removed, ...
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• Hanging Tree Decorations

  
  An Englishman's Castle — Authority: 554
  Poole — the town with a Christmas tree that you can wipe your feet on - Times Online When is a Christmas tree not a Christmas tree? When it is a giant cone covered in what appears to be...
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• Air Pollution Linked to Appendicitis

  
  Your Learning Guide In Surgery And Surgical Treatments — Authority: 121
  Air Pollution Linked to Appendicitis - in Public Health & Policy, Environmental Health from MedPage Today
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• Employer Prosecuted after Employee Trapped in Machine Dies

  
  Trafficero — Authority: 130
  Veetee Rice Limited became yet another employer to be fined for neglecting employee safety at workplace. The company had failed to follow safety regulations about blocking access of employees to dangerous parts of one of its machines, which resulted in an accident where a worker died of his injuries. The ...
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• Schoolkids banned from playing British Bulldogs

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 578
  By Cara Sulieman IT HAS been a popular playground game for generations, but children in one Scottish school have been banned from playing British Bulldogs on “health and safety grounds”. Pupils at Edinburgh’s Firrhill High School have been told not to play the game, along with other “physical” pastimes ...
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• Welsh language version of INDG430

  
  What's new at HSE — Authority: 144
  A welsh language version of INDG430 - ‘How to tackle work-related stress’ has been released. The title of the document is ‘Sut i fynd i’r afael â straen sy’n gysylltiedig â gwaith’ View INDG430 - ‘Sut i fynd i’r afael â straen sy’n gysylltiedig â gwaith’
  3 days ago

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