Whether intentional, or due to ignorance of the CFR requirements for shipping a highly dangerous substance, a private manufacturing company was hit hard for putting …
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Password Security Not as Tight as a Drum
Valuables used to be guarded in caves, then in bank vaults and now with passwords. For just about anyone on the planet, valuable funds, documents, …
3rd Annual WORLD QUALITY DAY Celebrated at SKOLNIK
On Thursday November 11, 2010, we celebrated our 3rd Annual World Quality Day at SKOLNIK. The purpose of World Quality Day is to promote awareness …
Photos of the Gulf Oil Rig Disaster
This article, with some incredible photographs, was forwarded to me by the Council on the Safe Transport of Hazardous Articles (COSTHA). The photos show the …
DOT’s PHMSA Administrator Quarterman Addresses COSTHA
During the recent COSTHA Annual Conference in St. Petersburg, FL, Ms. Cynthia Quaterman, Administrator of PHMSA (DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration) addressed the …
Europe Responds “No” to 100% In-bound Container Scanning
Since its adoption in 2007, the United States legislation mandating the scanning at foreign ports of all US bound maritime containers has triggered an international …