Safety

Early in the morning on September 26, a fire erupted at the site of Brooklyn Resource Recovery (BRR), a scrap metal and automobile shredding plant located in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, N.Y. This is the third fire that has occurred on the company’s...

This month, the Avoid the Spark campaign—a public education effort to reduce battery safety incidents—returns to the San Francisco Bay Area to engage the community. Efforts include local county battery collections, a cornerstone event benefiting...

Over the past 12 months, the waste and recycling industry has experienced 366 reported fires in both the U.S. and Canada. Based on reasonable assumptions, we can extrapolate that 1,800-plus facility fires have occurred in the past 12 months, which...

CP Group has unveiled its CP Anti-Wrap Screen, the recycling manufacturer’s second new screen of 2018. The CP Anti-Wrap Screen separates newsprint and large fiber from material streams by using high-amplitude elliptical discs to agitate material...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has extended the comment period on potential changes it is considering to the Hours of Service (HOS) rules...

Commercial motor vehicle (CMV) enforcement personnel patrolled roadways during Operation Safe Driver Week, July 15-21, to identify CMV drivers and passenger vehicle drivers engaged in unsafe driving behaviors. Throughout the week, officers issued...

Geotab announced two new partnerships with safety-focused associations: Vision Zero Network and Together for Safer Roads. Both Vision Zero Network and Together for Safer Roads are dedicated to helping communities improve road safety and...