FRA is amending its regulations on railroad workplace safety to further reduce the risk of serious injury or death to roadway workers performing work with potentially distracting equipment near certain adjacent tracks. In particular, this final rule requires that roadway workers comply with specified on-track safety procedures that railroads must adopt to protect those workers from the movement of trains or other on-track equipment on ``adjacent controlled track.'' FRA defines ``adjacent controlled track'' to mean ``a controlled track whose track center is spaced 19 feet or less from the track center of the occupied track.'' These on-track safety procedures are required for each adjacent controlled track when a roadway work group with at least one of the roadway workers on the ground is...
Emergence makes no moral presumption. It simply happens. Evidence the recent financial meltdown that has emerged after years of greed and plunder and is now taking down rich and poor alike. But as with any glacial pullback, the barren crust of existence that has become exposed, offers some new adjacent opportunities that had lain previously unexposed. This article proposes one that could provide a revitalization of the ideal of corporate social responsibility (CSR), but in a far more effective package. The opportunity is to create something greater than CSR, and that is called Community Social Performance. It is how the institutions are and will be compelled to form effective partnerships in order to survive the impact of the current economic meltdown and its consequences within the soc...
In deciding to decide, people get to distinguish if this decision they're about to make is filling a gap with something they recognize is missing or if they are recognizing an emergent or adjacent opportunity for perhaps furthering the dynamic plane with something new. Prioritizing the decisions everyone make is not just about making the decision that's right in front of them. Often they make these decisions so they can avoid making the higher value decisions that have more riding on them and might require more work. Mahatma Gandhi once said that when making a decision contemplate the poorest most destitute person you have ever seen in your life and ask, "will this decision I am about to make change this person's life for the better?" If organizations operated from this decision making ...
This document delays the effective date of the final rule published November 30, 2011, and scheduled to take effect on May 1, 2012. The final rule mandates that roadway workers comply with specified on-track safety procedures that railroads must adopt to protect those workers from the movement of trains or other on-track equipment on ``adjacent controlled track,'' and requests comments on the petitions for reconsideration of the final rule that FRA has received. In response to the final rule, FRA received two petitions for reconsideration that raise a number of substantive issues requiring a detailed response. Accordingly, in order to respond fully to the petitions for reconsideration and for the reasons set forth below, this document delays the effective date of the final rule until Ju...
EDINBURG, Texas - School officials in South Texas confined students to campus buildings and pondered erecting a cinder-block wall to block bullets from hunters on adjacent ranchland one day after two middle school boys were shot while trying out for the basketball team on an outdoor court. It seemed the most immediate solution for a problem specific to rural schools. With no law in Texas prohibiting hunting on private land next to schools and high-powered rifles firing ammunition that could go more than a mile, school officials said a barrier seemed a good idea.
Social change begins as an individual undertaking. Within people's understanding of emergence, it could be no other way. The "I" must change before the "We" can successfully interact and afford an emergent change. These are not the only possibilities, but when taken, these steps fertilize the ground so that inspiration and action can be seeded and grow. That act then engages the growth and participation of still others, and what began as an individual change in thinking, can lead to a social movement of monumental proportions. There has also been a great deal of talk about the need for change coming out of the political discourse. The question, of course, is not that change needs to take place, which is the extent of the political discourse, but a more clear understanding of how change ...
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