health and safety

SF Taxi drivers are dropping like flies
http://www.sfexaminer.com/taxi-drivers-dropping-like-flies/
A cab driver who jumped a curb on Market Street last week and crashed into a shoeshine stand is just one example of taxi drivers pushing themselves to the limit to survive in an increasingly competitive industry. (Jessica Christian/S.F. Examiner)
By Kelly Dessaint on September 2, 2016 1:00 am

Hurdles abound as Japan’s railway stations install platform-edge barriers but they are installing them
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/30/national/hurdles-abound-japa...
JIJI
• AUG 30, 2016

NTSB: El Faro Master Gave Order to Abandon Ship, VDR Data Reveals
https://gcaptain.com/nstb-26-hours-of-information-recovered-from-el-faro...
August 24, 2016 by gCaptain

Another SF Muni TWU 250 A operator assaulted, this time with a skateboard
http://www.sfexaminer.com/another-muni-operator-assaulted-time-skateboard/
A man walks past a 47 Van Ness bus on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco, Calif. Wednesday, May 25, 2016. (Ryan McNulty/Special to S.F. Examiner)
By Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez on August 24, 2016 5:25 pm

DC Metro fights Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 union lawsuit to reinstate L’Enfant Plaza tunnel inspector
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2016/08/22/metro-figh...
By Martine Powers August 22 at 10:34 AM