The “Click It or Ticket” mobilization period will begin on Monday May 21 through June 3, 2012. “Click It or Ticket” is a cooperative effort among the five traffic safety-related departments under the state’s Business, Transportation and Housing Agency: the California Highway Patrol, Office of Traffic Safety, Department of Transportation, Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, and the Department of Motor Vehicles.

According to the National...

The Ventura County Watershed Protection District is utilizing a remote-controlled device (Hard-Line Solution LP-401) used to clear storm drains and channels. No longer will employees need to crawl through storm drains to clear dirt, trash, and debris with their hands. The LP-401 can be operated from up to 200 feet away via a remote control that fits over the operator’s chest.

The County purchased the device to keep flood channels and storm drains open, while also keeping employees out of confined spaces within concrete box culverts. Here is more detailed information on the County’s use of the LP-401:

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The AAA Foundation website has a quiz that might give all of us a shock when the final results are tallied. Check to see if you are an aggressive driver at:

http://www.aaafoundation.org/quizzes/index.cfm?button=aggressive

The website also has other quizzes that you can access, such as:

• Drowsy Driving • Driving Safety Culture

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I was reading an article in my local newspaper about safe boating and how there have been two serious boating accidents recently in Santa Cruz and Channel Islands resulting in numerous fatalities. I am not a boating enthusiast, but I was surprised to read that there are several boater education courses offered for free from the Coast Guard Auxiliary. Specifically, the article identified a course “Suddenly in Command” which is a class designed for those not generally at the helm, but will help boaters to “be prepared” with the basics in case of an emergency.

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The Supreme Court on Monday (April 2, 2012) ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that officials may strip-search people arrested for any offense, however minor, before admitting them to jails even if the officials have no reason to suspect the presence of contraband. Jailers may perform invasive strip-searches on people arrested even for minor offenses. This decision resolved a conflict among lower courts about how to balance security and privacy. Before September...

I was looking over a number of proposed bills for 2012 and noticed and interesting one. A proposed health and consumer protection measure, AB 2218, would require all new table saws sold in California to have accident mitigation technology by 2015. Active injury mitigation technology means technology to detect contact with, or dangerous proximity between, a hand or finger and the teeth of the blade above the table top of a table saw, and to prevent...

For more than 24 hours, Dante Autullo had a 3 1/2-inch nail embedded in his brain and didn’t know it. Autullo, 32, of Orland Park, Illinois, accidentally shot himself in the back of the head with a nail gun while working in his garage. He thought his injury was just a laceration and that the nail had whizzed past his ear. But he felt nauseous and a CAT scan revealed the nail’s presence. While the nail was able to be removed and Autullo is expected to make a full recovery, this incident could have been prevented. According to OSHA, nail gun injuries are responsible for approximately 37,000 emergency room visits each year...