news, local-news, Mount Isa City Council will be putting up 28 new security cameras around town at strategic locations. Wednesday’s Council meeting heard about the upgrades the public CCTV network enabled by $100,000 funding from the federal Local Roads and Community Infrastructure program. The Council report said that the grant funding would pay for 28 […]

Trail City Council held a special round-table Governance and Operations Committee meeting in an effort to take the downtown core back. Recent confrontations between downtown businesses and homeless persons prompted council to meet with Trail and Greater District RCMP on Monday, Apr. 19 and pass a series of motions to take action. “This is a […]

News, June 20 2019 The UN Security Council approved Thursday its first resolution calling for protection of disabled people during armed conflicts. Nujeen Mustafa, a 20 year old Syrian with cerebral palsy, seen in 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany, where she traveled in a wheelchair with her family AFP/File The appeal follows moving testimony in April […]

[ad_1] Europe, Universal Design, April 10 2019 Now in its fifth year, Design Council Spark is putting a new focus on driving accessible home innovation; Design Council Spark: The Home Innovation Challenge is aiming to deliver major impact, both financially and socially, for people with reduced mobility or disabilities. Innovators challenged to design products for […]

[ad_1] EGYPT: On 5 March, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi agreed to a draft law to establish the National Council of People with Disabilities Law No.11 of 2019. “People with special needs in Egypt represent 9-10 percent of the total population,”Sisi said during International Day of Persons with Disabilities event. The establishment of the Disabilities […]

The British Safety Council reiterates its demand that the UK’s withdrawal from the EU must not in any way erode the progress made in the UK over the last four decades on workplace health, safety and welfare standards, together with the protection of worker’s rights and product safety. The adoption of EU directives into the […]

Blackburn with Darwen Council has installed high-tech CCTV cameras from Videalert to tackle dangerous parking at a key route into the town.  Cameras have been installed on the A678 at Copy Nook on the Furthergate Link Road, a route that has been widened under the Pennine Reach Scheme to improve the flow of traffic buses […]

Blackburn with Darwen Council has installed high-tech CCTV cameras from Videalert to tackle dangerous parking at a key route into the town.  Cameras have been installed on the A678 at Copy Nook on the Furthergate Link Road, a route that has been widened under the Pennine Reach Scheme to improve the flow of traffic buses […]

[ad_1] Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council has taken delivery of a new CCTV enforcement vehicle from Videalert. The new Mobile Enforcement Vehicle (MEV) has an unattended operating capability and will be used to enforce school locations where illegal parking on the yellow “keep clears” has been identified as putting children’s lives in danger. “We know that measures to tackle parking are often controversial and seen by some […]