| Public safety and P Guide - Resources and Review
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| Information about all aspects of fire science and management. Includes bibliography, mailing list and a virtual library.
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Sets out to investigate the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the shootings at Dunblane Primary School on 13 March 1996, and suggests recommendations for safeguarding the public against the misuse of firearms.
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National laboratory dedicated to enhancing the competitiveness of US industry and public safety performance prediction methods, measurement technologies and technical advances needed to assure the life cycle quality and economy of constructed facilities. Its products are used by those who own, design, construct, supply, and provide for the safety or environmental quality of constructed facilities.
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Collection of crash
test results for new and used vehicles. Provides information on death rate, head, chest and leg injuries, structure, head restraints, frontal offset, full frontal and side impact collisions, injury claims, collision claims and weight class, before offering an overall safety rating for each model. Safety statistics of two vehicles may be compared.
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RoSPA's purpose is to enhance quality of life by exercising a powerful influence for accident prevention. Offers statistics, reports, training materials, fact sheets and advice on many aspects of occupational, domestic, motoring and leisure safety.
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Includes safety tips, fatal airline events by airline and model since 1970, and an archive of the 'Airsafe Journal'.
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Information about nuclear safety. Includes a database of nuclear power plants, maps, plant types, operational status, type of reactor and a bibliography.
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A compilation of environmental information from the EPA. Covers ecosystems, water, health and safety, conservation, waste, recycling, air, US environmental law, and includes a dictionary.
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Resources for conservation professionals. Topics covered include disaster planning and response, copyright and intellectual property, education and training, health and safety, pest management and reprographics. Also contains news and an organisations listing.
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Features industry and product news, computer alerts, travel advice, a calendar of events, a directory of products and services, and access to an extensive security library. Includes resources on personal security, computer security, corporate safety and security legislation.
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Agency providing scientific advice about the efficacy of medicinal products. Also organises procedures for authorisation, surveillance and withdrawal of products in the European Union, and advises companies on the conduct of pharmaceutical research.
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Biosafety Information Network and Advisory Service monitors global developments in biosafety. It provides information that can be used in assessing the safety of biotechnological applications.
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Details of the US Department of Energy's cooperative effort to improve safety at Soviet
designed nuclear power plants in eight partnering countries - Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, and Slovakia. Joint projects are correcting major safety deficiencies and establishing nuclear safety infrastructures.
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Road safety and breakdown service for UK motorists. Information about products and services, press releases and specific advice, for example on buying a used car.
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Provides information from the public inquiry under Lord Cullen into the fatal rail crash at Ladbroke Grove on 5th October 1999. Establishes the context and scope of the inquiry, and provides full transcripts of daily proceedings.
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The official journal of the Risk Assessment and Policy Association, Risk is a refereed, interdisciplinary quarterly exploring public and private efforts to manage science and technology for net reduction in the probability, severity and aversive quality of health, safety and environmental impacts of natural and artificial hazards.
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Full text of the report. The study was published in July 1996 and appeared in the Journal of Legal Studies. Available in PDF.
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Includes information on first aid training courses available, such as basic life support, emergency aid and first aid at work. Also provides general information on the history and aims of the unit, joining the group and on making blood and bone marrow donations.
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