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A one-day planning meeting on strategic communication to improve road safety in the city has ended with a call on road safety agencies to harmonise efforts and support this year’s mass media campaign to reduce road traffic injuries and deaths.  The strategic planning meeting which was organised by the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) in collaboration with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA), sought to design communication strategies aimed at reducing road crashes and injuries in Accra and beyond. Some issues discussed during the meeting, attended by participants drawn from road…

A rainstorm that hit Damongo township has injured one student of the Damongo Senior High School and displaced hundreds of students. The storm also rendered some residents homeless. The less than an hour rainstorm on Thursday night, March 31, 2022, ripped off Abu Juan’s House, one of the boys’ dormitories, leaving the students at the mercy of the rain and the cold weather. According to West Gonja Municipal Chief Executive, Musah Kusubare, the student, who sustained minor injuries in the process, has been treated and discharged, and no lives have been lost. Belongings including mattresses, books, beds and clothes among…

A 23-year man was shot dead and more than 50 others suffered gunshot wounds during Thursday’s anti-coup protests in Sudan, activists and medics say. Eyewitnesses said the security forces used excessive force to disperse the protesters in the capital, Khartoum. The unusually high tally of gunshot injuries is understood to be linked to the increased use by the security forces of shotguns, which fire shells that contain multiple pellets, locally known as “suk-suk”. Removing these projectiles can require complex surgery, local medical groups like Hadhreen Organisation warn. During Thursday’s clashes, another activist was reportedly stabbed by riot police. Tweeters have…

Safe listening – beyond that in the workplace – is important to address the rising, but avoidable, risk of hearing injury caused by daily exposures to excessive noise. Many people do not have noisy jobs and are unaware of gradual hearing decline that adversely affects professional growth, productivity and health beyond hearing loss. Audition Technology’s white paper summarizes the current global standards for safe listening in the environment and from audio (headphones) and provides a framework for monitoring lifestyle exposures versus safe dose, building awareness and self-management with associated tools offered by the company. Source link

An oil storage depot is on fire in a Russian city just north of Ukraine after what the local governor said was an attack by two Ukrainian helicopters. A video shared on Twitter shows a blaze near apartment blocks in Belgorod, some 40km (25 miles) from the border. Some clips appear to show rockets hitting the oil depot. However, Ukraine has not previously struck targets in Russia and governor Vyacheslav Gladkov’s allegation was not confirmed by Ukrainian officials. Belgorod, a city of 370,000, lies just north of Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv, which has been heavily shelled by Russian artillery and remains surrounded…

Washington — The Department of Transportation has increased civil penalty amounts for violations to adjust for inflation, effective March 21. The increase is 1.06222% for DOT agencies, including the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, according to a final rule published in the March 21 Federal Register. The adjustments for FMCSA penalties are listed in Appendices A and B to 49 CFR part 386. A chart of the affected penalties is available in Section D of the final rule. Under the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, DOT is required to adjust civil penalty levels for inflation each year.…

In the lead-up to World Autism Awareness Day on 2 April, WHO is releasing an online version of its training programme for caregivers of children with developmental delays or disabilities, including autism. The programme, which has already been piloted in face-to-face format in more than 30 countries, such as Brazil, India, Italy and Kenya, teaches parents and other caregivers day-to-day skills that help boost the well-being and development of children with autism and other developmental disabilities. “In so many parts of the world, particularly – but not only – in low-income settings, people looking after autistic children often lack access…

Pernod Ricard Ghana in collaboration with Street Sense Organisation, a road safety campaigner, has embarked on a road safety awareness and sensitisation programme aimed at reducing the incidence of drink-driving, especially during the Easter festivities. The programme dubbed “Metwi a, Mentwa” which literally means “If I will drive, I will not drink”, was launched in December last year. The recent campaign, targeting 1,000 commercial drivers, started at the GPRTU Obra spot lorry park in Accra and is being replicated at nine other lorry terminals in the Greater Accra, Eastern and Central regions, including the Neoplan station, Tudu, Ashaiman, Nsawam, Amasaman,…

Today, WHO announced that Egypt’s and Nigeria’s medical products regulatory agencies had reached maturity level 3. This means that these national bodies have been found to function well and that they could be eligible for inclusion into the transitional WHO Listed Authorities, a list that will comprise the world’s regulators of reference – that is, regulatory authorities that should be globally recognized as meeting WHO and other international standards. Egypt has reached maturity level 3 for vaccines regulation (locally produced and imported) and Nigeria for medicines and imported vaccines. The two countries join Ghana and Tanzania as effective regulatory systems…

How an Obsession with SAFETY Leads to Mental Illness & Tyranny – Academy of Ideas An interesting find by Carol Jadzia Beauchemin, who says: Live dangerously. Safety is often built on a world as imagined by authoritarian narratives and top down control. Rather than the reality as done by those getting on with their lives. Safety is just part of what we do, not the main focus of why we are doing it. Source link