available in case of an emergency. Never tailgate. Always travel with an adequate cushion of space ahead of your vehicle. Position your vehicle with space to the sides and the front with an escape route, should you need it. Obey all traffic controls. Exercise the right-of-way rules. Drive defensively. Try to predict the possible actions of other highway users. Do not drive where you cannot see. If your vision is blocked, reduce your speed and reposition your vehicle so
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programs and actions. Pay once said that during his reign, there will be a “Wang-Wang” ban and road reconstructions for better and easier travel, but the MMDA office is still experiencing traffics, transportation problems and road failures. Employees get late for work, students wake up earlier to prevent the traffic, business produce low profit and a lot experience headache and frustration. The Aquino Administration is fighting corruption, they uphold programs and services for funds and other financial
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The light turns green. The car in front of you slowly accelerates to a blazing speed of...35mph. A quick glance to the right confirms the suspicion that lingers: 50mph speed limit. Passing is out of the question, as a solid yellow line blocks the freedom of an open road. So now the question arises, Why? The answer can be found through the extra five minutes it takes to reach the destination. The time spent in a car can be the most eyeopening period of one’s life, if one allows it to be. Too many
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Trains and their cars are incredibly heavy, easily more so than a regular car. It is absolutely necessary for safety to check both ways on a track, or on several tracks, before crossing. As a pedestrian, it is especially important to be able to hear and see, meaning hoods and headphones off. Even if you can’t see a train coming, sometimes being able to hear one coming makes all the difference. If you have a bike or a skateboard, or something of the sort, do not ride across the tracks. Again, check
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them to watch for. Driving too fast for the road conditions or in situations that are adverse to trucks can lead to an accident. Here are three of them: Slippery Pavement This category includes wet pavement as well as snow and ice conditions. Although wet pavement doesn't cause slipping and sliding when walking on it, you will find it slippery when braking to avoid an accident and during swerve maneuvers. Your weight and your trailer increase your braking distance, and if you aren't careful, a
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Driving While Stupid During the course of day, things are noticed or experienced that can cause an individual to form an opinion. Not everyone has the same opinion. One way to get an opinion across is to provide an argument that supports the opinion. If the argument is convincing enough, the individual might be able to persuade others to accept the opinion as fact. The goal of this paper is to show how the author of “Driving While Stupid”, David Barry, makes the argument that Miami has the worst
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Today, there are numerous types of people, whether they are young or elderly that have their driver’s license. With all of the billions of people in the world, taking up little road space, you would think that it would be hard to simply drive to your destination without any mishaps. By through thorough examination, it is quite evident that everyone is a terrific driver. These people hardly do anything wrong and they always drive perfectly and appropriately. They always know what they’re doing and
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Selkbag is primarily intended to be used as a sleeping bag, and it is also very useful as a full body snowsuit. There are different selkbag designs, such as Lite, Realtree® Xtra® (camouflage), and Star wars. The Selkbag was created in 2006 by Rodrigo Alonso, as part of a family of innovative, fun, and highly useful products. The name Selkbag was inspired by the Selk'nam natives of Tierra del Fuego, Chile, people who dressed sparingly despite the cold climate of Patagonia. Selkbag is a snowsuit and
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Accident Investigation and Reporting 1 Definitions Accident Any unplanned or unintentional events that result in harm or loss to personnel, property, production or nearly anything that has some inherent value Incident An event that could happened under different conditions: Accident Near miss 2 1 3 Impact of Accident Increase of organization’s operational costs Higher production costs Decreased efficiency Long term effects of decreased employee morale and unfavorable public
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COMM 436 Journal 3 In my view, zero-injury goals are unrealistic targets because I feel that it is impossible to prevent all injuries from happening. An employer only has so much control over what happens in the workplace. It is critical for the employer to ensure that jobs are done in a safe manner. This is usually done by training employees in health and safety, supervising the workplace, identifying and addressing hazards, etc. But what about when employees are injured at the workplace but
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