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#hazards — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hazards, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Slips, trips and fall risks from ubiquitous dogs

    In dog-friendly Australia it seems the non-native canine is the most dominant species. They are allowed to roam the (dog-free) beaches, the national parks and (pet-friendly) workplaces, flats, cafes, restaurants etc. If not straying, then they are on long or flexible, extendable leashes stretching across hallways and footpaths.

    This trip-and-fall risk is human-unfriendly. The health, safety, and well-being of the bipedal companions is not considered. Pet dogs pose hygiene issues, potential zoonoses and allergy risks. The mental well-being of bite victims and phobia affected can trigger distress.

    Foreman, A.M.; Glenn, M.K.; Meade, B.J.; Wirth, O. Dogs in the Workplace: A Review of the Benefits and Potential Challenges. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2017, 14, 498. doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14050498
    mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/5/498

    Image: Dog-friendly Coffs Central Shopping Centre, trip and fall hazard for customers

    #Dogs #hazards #pets #PublicSpaces #Workplaces #falls #Food #zoonoses #hygiene #CoffsHarbour #cafes #Bellingen #PetRelatedInjuries #hospitalisations #DogFriendly

  2. Interesting, lightning strike in Superior, Colorado, woman was unidentified because she had no ID and their phone was toasted. (critical condition, now ID'd).

    denverpost.com/2026/04/11/woma

    #wx #hazards #lightning #COwx

  3. caribbean.unwomen.org/en/stori

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    " #Global and #regional data demonstrate that #women are more at #risk from #climatechange impacts than #men. This is not because women are naturally more susceptible to #natural #hazards, resulting #disasters or #health #crises. Instead, it is the stubborn structural barriers to #equality based on harmful #gender #stereotypes and #inequality of #power in decision making that increase women’s vulnerability, reducing their opportunities to build #resiliency."

  4. In Bellingen all space seems devoted to parking for combustion machines. Every lawn, river banks, footpaths - everywhere space is eaten by cars with an expensive need for petrol from the Middle East. Carparks litter the landscape of the small town that has very few footpaths.

    Image: Bellingen, Church street, Public toilet pathway blocked by oil guzzlers
    #Bellingen #access #accessibility #AccessibleAmenities #footpaths #cars #SUVs #storage #hazards #MobilityDesign #walking #climate

  5. The Looming Data Loss That Threatens Public Safety and Prosperity

    Cuts to funding and staff needed to maintain trusted datasets of reference Earth system observations could limit their availability and quality, undermining hazard predictions and risk assessments.

    eos.org/features/the-looming-d

    #Earth #science #business #industry #climate #datamanagement #EarthScience #economics #Hazards #Disasters #Health #Ecosystems #monitoringnetworks #NASA #NOAA #publichealth #satellites #sciencepolicy #USGS

  6. Interactive 2025 edition of the revised map displaying 18 natural hazards in the USA, featuring multivariate visualizations with layer-switching and spatial query functionalities #hazards

    cartoguophy.com/us_rising_haza

  7. 🔥 New Paper Alert 🔥 -- from the incomparable @ioes.ucla.edu Senior Practicum in Environmental Science with the paper led by new alums Sammy Fruman and Bethany Woo --> anonymized smartphone data show park use in extreme heat 1/ #heat #hazards #mobility #cities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

    Smartphone location data show ...

  8. Regulations to restrict use and control exposure to methelyene chloride, carbon tetrachloride both health #hazards and known #carcinogens are under threat from the #deadly #corrupt #toxic #Trump #Republican #GOP #EPA

    They don't care how many people suffer and die, as long as the #bribes keep coming in

  9. #Roman has the high sensitivity to measure the physical properties, compositions, and orbital trajectories of #NEOs ☄️ in order to understand their physical nature and potential #hazards to Earth. Roman's #PlanetaryDefense capabilities complement those of the operational ground-based @VRubinObs 🔭 and the upcoming #space-based 🌌 #NEOSurveyor arxiv.org/abs/2508.14412

    🚀 October 2026 - May 2027 nextspaceflight.com/launches/d

    #AsteroidThreat #SpaceTelescope #RomanSpaceTelescope

  10. Hip-Hip-Hoorray!!! This wonderful volume is finally out in the #openaccess world. Despite challenges in the last 3 yrs, my lovely co-editors, Marcel Bradtmöller (Rostock), Astrid J. Nyland @arkeostrida (Stavanger), Noa Lavi (Haifa), & I publish these relevant papers of many fantastic authors discussing how people handled #hazards,
    what makes #disasters or #vulnerability,
    how to built societal #resilience & #sustainability &
    is this smart to do?
    #anthropology #Archaeology share.google/XtBTYyy8VRlqyMS7H

  11. 🚨OMG, a bureaucrat is shocked that some cheap products might be hazardous! 🎉 Welcome to #capitalism, where adults are surprised that "you get what you pay for" applies. 🛒✨ Maybe next time, they'll discover water is wet. 🌊
    theguardian.com/business/2025/ #bureaucracy #consumerawareness #cheapproducts #hazards #surprises #HackerNews #ngated

  12. I don't want to say this was completely unexpected, because this is something changes in ice coverage can affect, but increasing #seismic #hazards is not the first impact of #ClimateChange that comes to mind.

    Link: sciencedirect.com/science/arti

  13. Lots of dust storm warnings in Arizona today.

    Video on Dust Storm safety from the National Weather Service

    youtube.com/watch?v=ThCp5GZZla

    #safety #duststorm #nws #hazards #AZwx

  14. Learning interrupted

    "Climate shocks are disrupting children’s education, putting their learning and their futures at risk."

    "A new UNICEF analysis reveals that at least 242 million students in 85 countries or territories had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events including heatwaves, tropical cyclones, storms, floods and droughts in 2024, exacerbating an existing learning crisis."
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    unicef.org/reports/learning-in
    #FossilFuels #climate #impacts #disruption #education #children #floods #droughts #heatwaves #bushfires #storms #hazards #Intergenerationaljustice #UNICEF