Landing at the wrong airport may sound like an unusual mistake, but it remains a serious aviation safety risk. Modern aircraft often have advanced navigation systems, flight displays, GPS equipment, moving maps, and air traffic control support. Even so, pilots can...
A refinery accident can leave workers, contractors, visitors, and nearby residents facing serious injuries, overwhelming medical expenses, lost income, and uncertainty about what to do next. After an explosion, fire, toxic release, or equipment malfunction, one of the...
Convenience stores serve customers quickly, often at night, often with limited staffing, and often in locations where people enter and exit the property throughout the day. Many stores sell fuel, alcohol, tobacco, lottery tickets, and other items that bring steady...
Barge workers perform difficult and dangerous work on rivers, canals, ports, terminals, shipyards, and inland waterways. They may serve as deckhands, tankermen, engineers, captains, mates, welders, mechanics, cargo workers, cleaners, inspectors, or contractors. Their...
Security patrols exist for a reason. They help deter crime, identify dangerous activity, respond to threats, and protect people moving through commercial properties. When patrols are missing, inconsistent, poorly trained, or assigned to the wrong areas, customers,...
Cockpit callouts are meant to improve safety. They help pilots confirm aircraft configuration, verify checklist items, coordinate duties, and identify problems before they become emergencies. But when a pilot makes a callout automatically, without first checking the...
Barges are often used to transport fuel, chemicals, petroleum products, construction materials, industrial cargo, and other heavy freight. They may also undergo repair, cleaning, maintenance, loading, unloading, and modification while tied to docks, terminals,...
Deckhands perform some of the most physically demanding and dangerous work in maritime transportation. On barges, towboats, and inland waterway vessels, deckhands handle lines, secure barges, assist with cargo, move across wet decks, work near heavy equipment, and...
Agricultural aviation is demanding work. Pilots often fly at low altitude, close to fields, trees, roads, power lines, towers, poles, fences, irrigation systems, and other obstacles. These operations may involve repeated passes over uneven terrain, turns near field...
Barges are essential to commerce on rivers, canals, ports, and inland waterways throughout the United States. They move bulk cargo, construction materials, petroleum products, chemicals, grain, equipment, and other heavy freight that would be difficult or inefficient...