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Trips For Kids is a non-profit community service organization that provides beginner and intermediate-level mountain bike riding, environmental education, bicycle mechanics training and earn-a-bike programs for youth in the United States and Canada. Legally based in Marin County, California, over 230,000 children have been served by 75 Trips ...
San Francisco Critical Mass, April 29, 2005. Critical Mass is a form of direct action in which people travel as a group on bicycles at a set location and time. The idea is for people to group together to make it safe for each other to ride bicycles through their streets, based on the old adage: there's safety in numbers.
Dedicated cycling facility in New York City. There is debate over the safety implications of cycling infrastructure (e.g. cycle tracks, protected intersections).Recent studies generally affirm that segregated cycle tracks have a better safety record between intersections than cycling on major roads in traffic. [1]
Bicycle safety is the use of road traffic safety practices to reduce risk associated with cycling. Risk can be defined as the number of incidents occurring for a given amount of cycling. Some of this subject matter is hotly debated: for example, which types of cycling environment or cycling infrastructure is safest for cyclists.
The Occupational Safety and Health Act grants OSHA the authority to issue workplace health and safety regulations. These regulations include limits on hazardous chemical exposure, employee access to hazard information, requirements for the use of personal protective equipment, and requirements to prevent falls and hazards from operating ...
A Kansas teenager with Down syndrome claimed a sporting goods store discriminated against her by initially refusing to let her ride a Ferris wheel.
Companies most commonly subsidize workplace wellness programs in the hope they will reduce costs on employee health benefits like health insurance in the long run. [2] Existing research has failed to establish a clinically significant difference in health outcomes, proof of a return on investment, or demonstration of causal effects of ...
OSH specialists examine worksites for environmental or physical factors that could harm employee health, safety, comfort or performance. They then find ways to improve potential risk factors. For example, they may notice potentially hazardous conditions inside a chemical plant and suggest changes to lighting, equipment, materials, or ventilation.