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| Date | Title | Body |
|---|---|---|
| 6 days 6 hours ago | Corporations/industries often |
Corporations/industries often fail to disclose risks, attempt to prevent or mitigate risks, train their employees, or provide the necessary personal protective equipment. Coal mining is an excellent example. The Massey explosion in 2010 could have been prevented, but Massey deliberately falsified safety reports. Best industry practice following a high potential hurt near miss in one mine would be to have an immediate safety stand down in all mines, to communicate what happened and the root cause determined by the incident investigation. Dozens of people died because the company deliberately failed to disclose. It is true that you assume some risk in taking those jobs, but the employer must disclose and if a risk increases, take steps to prevent or mitigate it or they are negligent. In football, there is an assumed risk that you can be injured, under the assumption that the opponent's intent (on defense) is to stop the advancement of the football. If the opponent's intent changes to deliberately injure you, the risk has increased. However, that increased risk was not disclosed. If the NFL knew the risk had increased, they would have the responsibility to implement preventative and mitigative measures to decrease the risk (either the probability, consequence, or both) to the previous level. There is a name for this in HSE: management of change. As employees of the NFL, each member of the Saints had the obligation to report that the working conditions had changed and that there was an increased risk of injury. If that is not part of labor union policy or NFL policy, then they have a shitty safety management system and have a gaping hole leaving them liable in lawsuits. In any other industry, if you or your coworkers deliberately engaged in actions that increased the risk to others, you wouldn't be suspended but terminated. Moreover, if you observed a change in condition that increased risk but did not speak up, you could be terminated if that increased risk had high potential. Most large corporations have this encoded in their HSE policies. NFL players are professionals. There is no reason we should not hold them to the same professional standards that you are I are held to. |
| 10 weeks 3 days ago | Stone is in Escondido, |
Stone is in Escondido, California. |
| 12 weeks 8 hours ago | Yes, you need 12 credits to |
Yes, you need 12 credits to be classified as a full time student and to maintain your scholarship/eligibility. This was the basis of the Ann Arbor news "academic" scandal that preceded practice-gate. Football players who took 14 credits and had to drop a class midsemester were funneled into late-add independent studies with the same professor, so they could maintain 12 credits. Having that flexibiilty is a good thing, but how it was done and their workload for 1-2 extra credits was dubious. The exception is if you need fewer credits than 12 to graduate, you do not have to take 12. |
| 25 weeks 5 days ago | He's not playing the same |
He's not playing the same position as last year, moving from mostly the slot to the outside. Plus, the change in scheme did way with those sick Denard steps toward the line sucking the linebackers and safety in but designed throw to Roundtree plays. |
| 1 year 2 weeks ago | Roads -- even toll roads -- |
Roads -- even toll roads -- are in need of constant subsidies too. They are colossal money losers, and would be even moreso if you added in the externalized costs (a 10 ppb decrease in ozone, for example, increases productivity up to 4%.) |
| 1 year 15 weeks ago | Note that Ryan Mundy |
Note that Ryan Mundy essentially set that up with the block in the back. Angry Michigan Safety Hating God! |
| 1 year 26 weeks ago | Sure, we've recruited talent |
Sure, we've recruited talent on par with those schools, but we've also lost that talent: attrition and injury. The talent on our roster is less than those schools in my opinion, not just more youthful. It would be different if we could have kept those bodies committed, accepted, enrolled, and intact. |
| 1 year 26 weeks ago | Almost every college has its |
Almost every college has its own police force, even private ones much smaller than Notre Dame. They likely don't have to comply with newspaper requests due to exceptions to open records laws for student privacy. For example, an 18 year old drinking is a civil infraction, and publicly drunk requires a night in jail, but almost all university police departments handle those issues discretely, and aren't required to file formal reports that create legal records. Regarding this case: the sample size of one article is too small to make anything of it. |
| 1 year 36 weeks ago | Nadal or Djokovic will get |
Nadal or Djokovic will get the cover (unless it goes to print Saturday night/sunday morning.) |
| 1 year 41 weeks ago | The only thing dumb about the |
The only thing dumb about the shirt is that an East Lansing woman is not negotiable in price. Seriously, have you ever hooked up with a Spartan? You always pay $5 for a beer cup at the door, and then you pretty much get to choose whatever woman you want. That fee is more flat than Claire Danes was in "My So Called Breasts." |
