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Here's a task: bridge the new mechanical room to the utility connection in the old space--located in an adjacent building in Chicago's South Loop. Room for equipment is frequently tight, [...]

Woodships, bark, and other wood materials are transported through the use of screw conveyors which rotate and move along the bottom of the pile. Screw breaks have the potential for shutting operations of a paper mill. However, maintenance and load analysis can prevent downtime. Load applications and improved loads, along with pile height and shape, and material density must be considered, as well as welding anomalies and load stress., By rotating and moving along the bottom of a pile of wood material that is often more than 80 ft high, screw conveyors transport such products as woodchips, bark, and [...]

Gulf War Reveals Environmental Terrorist Threat It has become disturbingly clear, particularly after the Persian GulfWar, how ill-prepared we are to battle environmental terrorism. A recent phenomenon, environmental terrorism contrasts [...]

Risk Awareness On Rise In Europe Within the past few years, there has been an exponential growth in environmental awareness in Europe. To some extent, that awareness has come about [...]

The United Kingdom passed the Environmental Act of 1995 which amended the Environmental Protection Act of 1990 and has provisions regulating the new contaminated lands. However, in spite of the availability of insurance coverage and passing of regulations under the Act, there is still uncertainty as to how the authorities will implement them.

Risk managers will be able to develop new strategies to handle hazardous waste sites as a result of the anticipated changes in the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) administrative policies. Pres Bill Clinton supports the EPA's pilot programs to use the Superfund Accelerated Cleanup Model to streamline the pollution cleanup process and provide private industry with incentives to create voluntary response programs., Administrative changes in the Environmental Protection Agency's remedial response programs, such as Superfund and voluntary response initiatives, could affect how risk managers handle environmental claims and issues related to hazardous [...]

In a recent poll of executives, 53% said their company had not purchased a property because of an environmental risk, and 35% reported transactions that had failed because of an [...]

How well are you managing your career? Do you feel in control of your future in mining? Do you actively and consistently promote yourself to upper management? To judge how [...]

Q: Recently I bought a Taurus PT-92 9mm pistol for use as a personal defense gun. After some research, I decided to use PMC 9mm Starfire ammunition, which according to [...]