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• The keys to preventing lead exposure

  Piyush Bakshi Waste Management & Environmental

  ​​Lead is among the six common air pollutants that impact air quality in America, according to the EPA. The others are particulate matter, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone and sulfur dioxide. Once upon a time, unleaded gasoline used in vehicles was the biggest source of lead in the air. However, over a period of two decades from 1980 to 1999, the EPA managed to bring down lead pollution from the transportation sector by 95 percent. Today, the most common sources of lead emissions include lead smelters, metal processing units, waste processing units and lead-acid battery manufacturers.

• Clean cold marches on in Europe

  Andrew Gaved Manufacturing

  The technology of cryogenic cooling is continuing to live up to its billing of being one of the most disruptive technologies the industry, following a high-profile launch event in London earlier this month. The Birmingham Energy Institute Policy Commission — the organization backing the technology — is proving equally disruptive in the often-low-key world of refrigeration by gaining support among academics, politicians and commercial interest alike for its aim to take a systems approach to low-emission cooling.

• Don’t phone it in: 10 tips to work from home like a pro

  Brie Ragland Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  It's a common misconception for people to think telecommuters are slackers. When you tell someone, "Yeah, I work from home three days a week," the typical response is, "Wow, must be nice to not have to really work a full week." Of course, working from home must mean slacking off and duping "the man" to get paid, right? Wrong! As a matter of fact, a Stanford University study showed that people working full-time from home are 13 percent more efficient.

• Teaching behavior safety is just ‘common sense’

  Michael S. Haro, Ph.D. Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Behavior safety is "common sense." To understand why, let's start by comparing computer hardware and software — another common-sense issue. For a computer, hardware makes it an object. Sitting there, it gives an appearance of significance. It even scares some people by its appearance, and what we've been told it can do. Yet it has little value if it only occupies space on a desk. Without software, it's worthless.

• Smile for the camera: Cockpit recorders are here to stay

  Mark Huber Transportation Technology & Automotive

  ​Surveillance cameras are everywhere today — where we shop, live, work and drive. In our post-9/11 world, it seems like they are in every shopping mall and on every street corner. Some are placarded with signs, some are hidden, but they are there, and there is no escaping it.

• Interoperability still lacking, but patients want more

  Scott E. Rupp Healthcare Administration

  ​​According to a new report by SoftwareAdvice, patient consumers are acutely aware of health information exchange and interoperability, and of whether their physicians are connected and able to share data freely across the healthcare spectrum to provide the best in care.

• When your website says no, but you say go

  Mark MacDonald Religious Community

  ​I was driving down a city street in a school zone, and a police officer was directing traffic. He had eight lanes of traffic to work with, and his arms were swinging with various gestures in various directions. I thought he was telling the lane next to me to stop and for me to go. I was wrong. Fortunately, the police officer "allowed" me to proceed, and no one was hurt.

• Electrical soil: Integrating music and art across disciplines, courses

  Debra Josephson Abrams Education

  As an experienced educator new to a decades-old university-based ESL program, I quickly found a curriculum moribund from decades of inattention and lacking best practices. The program, whose primary mission is to prepare students for university matriculation, had lost its CEA accreditation and was trying to regain it.

• Time to exit the ‘fire bubble’ and embrace preventive maintenance

  David Cain Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  ​Accounts of ​budget-challenged Detroit firefighters using pop cans, coins, door hinges, pipes and doorbells to get emergency alerts were alarming to say the least. But, in many ways, it's all too similar to fire departments continuing to use unreliable, outdated paper logs for equipment and apparatus maintenance checks.

• A governance reboot is necessary for 2016

  William D. Pawlucy Association Management

  The bad news: You have an ineffective board of directors. The good news: They know it and ask for help. This is the perfect opportunity to re-engineer decision-making in your organization and increase nimbleness and innovation. Focus on outcomes in the process, and you will be better off than discussing the "same old, same old" issues that have been talked about for the past 20 years in fixing the governance issue.

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