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Recreational Activities also have great Safety Risk

Speeding facts

Driving even a few kilometres over the posted speed limit can reduce your ability to deal with circumstances you may not expect and lessens the effectiveness of seatbelts and other safety devices such as airbags and side impact beams

Between 2010 and 2014, 451 people in Alberta were killed and 11,753 were injured in collisions involving unsafe speed.
Motor vehicle collisions were the second leading cause (after falls) of head injury hospital admissions.
In the past 10 years, there was an average of 1,274 convictions each year for speeding more than 50 km/h over the speed limit.
Motorists must slow to 60 km/h, or less if the posted speed is lower, when in an adjacent lane passing emergency vehicles or tow trucks stopped with their lights flashing. Fines for speeding in these circumstances double.
A vehicle travelling at 50 km/h takes 37 metres to stop, while one moving at 110 km/h needs 126 metres to stop, nearly three times the distance.

Incident Awareness

Tank explosion during welding – a welder was removing a nitrogen nipple from a pipe that came off a blending tank to replace with a larger one. The nipple was ground off and the opening in the pipe was widened and leveled. When the welder went to tack weld the larger nipple in place, a loud explosion occurred within the tank. There were no injuries. Mining and Petroleum Development

Picker crane truck tips over – a driver unstrapped a load from the truck deck and rigged the load for drop-off using the truck’s picker-crane. While moving a load over fencing, the truck tipped over onto the driver’s side. The truck’s outriggers were down but not extended at the time of the incident. A worker was operating controls on the driver’s side but was not injured. Construction and Construction Trades

Source: AB OHS News May 2017