Friday Five – Your Weekly Sign and Safety News Roundup

Friday, March 13, 2012 —

What’s your sign? This one gets to the point No Parking signs in Allentown, Pennsylvania, are, to put it mildly, full of personality. To combat universal ignoring of no parking signs, the sign below appeals to both the morals and the wallets of parking motorists. The sign reads, “Don’t even THINK of parking here. You will get a ticket and be towed. What if someone else were here & you wanted to mail a letter [?!]”

Image via lehighvalleylive.com.  For more on this and other unusual No Parking Signs, see a recent article at ParkingSigns.net.

Woman taken to hospital after hitting sign This week continues its marathon of ridiculous and weird with a story first reported this morning by the Morris Daily Herald. Apparently a woman on her way to a Morris, GA Driver Services Facility — Georgia’s equivalent of the Department of Motor Vehicles — needs to gain some major facility in her driving, as she rammed into a Reserved Parking sign in the DSF’s parking lot.  The airbags in the silver Ford Mustang deployed, and no serious injuries (except for a wounded pride) were reported.  Happy Friday, everybody.

State studies increasing speed limit on ICC Maryland’s newly completed Inter-County Corridor has been speed violations since it opened to drivers in November 2010. The past four months alone have seen 1,258 citations for speeding and driving under the influence. Given the relatively few accidents along the ICC, officials are considering raising the speed limit upwards of its current 55 mph.

55 MPH speed limit sign, via RoadTrafficSigns.com.

Woburn Company Faces OSHA fines OSHA continues to take a bite out of dangerous drilling in the workplace. The Massachusetts-based conglomerate International Stone Inc. has been ordered to pay $47,600 in damages for 11 safety violations in a granite and marble cutting plant in Ansonia, Connecticut. Nine of those 11 violations are considered “serious,” ie, carrying with them the “substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result.” Yep.

Employees cut and polished stone without face or hand protection, ignoring regulations spelled out in this safety sign, via MySafetySign.com.

ADA swimming pool accessibility creates problem for hotels This safety news edition continues with a note on swimming pool safety. The Americans with Disabilities Act will require all hotels to install pool lifts at their swimming pools by May 15.

– R. Fogel