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  • Put food safety on Thanksgiving menu

    Thanksgiving meals are some of the largest prepared each year and come with a significant amount of stress. Preparing large meals requires the cook to juggle many “different pots” at the same time but getting the turkey roasted just right is main objective of most cooks. Whether you’re a skilled

  • AF Safety goes mobile

    Air Force Safety Center released a mobile version of the Airman Safety App enabling Airmen at installations Air Force wide to voluntarily report safety issues with their devices as they encounter them.

  • Detective Stories from the Feather Identification Lab

    The Smithsonian Institution Feather Identification Lab uses a variety of methods to identify more than 9,000 samples each year from civil and military sources. The result of their work adds to an ever-expanding database, which benefits not only aviation safety, but biologists, airfield managers,

  • WR-ALC Safety seeing lasting change in processes with AoP

    Since 2014, the organization has implemented the tenets of Art of the Possible, a constraints-based management system, to improve mishap investigations, recommendations, inspections, hazard abatement, swipe samples, operating instruction review, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration

  • This Halloween, be safe and be seen

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Halloween will be held on base, Oct. 31, from 6 to 8 p.m., and to ensure that all of the superheroes, princesses, ghosts and goblins are safe, make sure they can be seen. According to the SafeKids Worldwide website, “Kids are more than twice as likely to be

  • Public enemy number chirp

    The Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard plan is designed to minimize aircraft exposure to potentially hazardous wildlife strikes during airfield and flying operations at Joint Base Langley-Eustis.

  • Crash Lab adds heavies

    Over the past few weeks, the remains of three heavy aircraft have arrived at the Air Force Safety Center Crash Lab on Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico to enhance the hands-on portion of the Aircraft Mishap Investigation Course.The addition of a C-17 Globemaster III, B-52 Stratofortress, and

  • USSTRATCOM expands SSA data on Space-Track.org

    Gen. John E. Hyten, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command, directed the expansion of Space Situational Awareness data sharing on www.Space-Track.org, USSTRATCOM's primary SSA data sharing web platform.Registered Users on www.Space-Track.org will begin to receive additional data about some space objects

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