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In October, the American Bar Association honored Alan H Schoem, Director of the Office of Compliance of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), with the Mary C Lawton 2002 Outstanding Government Service Award. Schoem has led the CPSC’s efforts to facilitate the recall of thousands of hazardous products over the last five years. He has also been instrumental in working with CPSC’s Office of the General Counsel and the US Department of Justice in cracking down on companies that fail to report hazardous products to the Commission. The award recognizes Schoem’s achievements as a practitioner of administrative law and his career-long dedication to public service.
Ian Scott, Injury Prevention book editor, has moved from the Australian safety organisation, Kidsafe, and is now working for the Injury and Violence Prevention Program of the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific in Manila. He can be contacted via scotti@wpro.who.int, tel +632 528 9888, fax +632 521 1036.
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has named Dr Frank Richey to the new position of President and Academic Dean of the NTSB Academy. The Academy, which is currently under construction, is expected to open in late summer of 2003. The NTSB Academy will help the NTSB to meet its long term goal of keeping its own staff on the cutting edge of accident investigation techniques and making the NTSB’s investigative and safety expertise more widely available to those involved in accident investigation throughout the world.
ROAD SAFETY IN BANGALORE
In January 2002, the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF) for facilitating programmes for road safety in Bangalore. Andrew Downing, GRSP Advisor and International Manager, Safety and Environment, Transport Research Laboratory, UK, told the local press that India was one of the 11 …