Today, side airbags aren't always standard and as the safety bar ratchets ever higher, cars without them are lagging in safety ratings.
Research in lagging and leading safety indicators shows further that safety knowledge is hardly ever shared among relevant project stakeholders in time to prevent accidents.
NewLink Genetics, a small company with less experience in vaccines, is lagging behind GSK, but safety studies could start later this month.
Before he published his 1965 Unsafe at Any Speed, automobile safety was lagging.
Big trucks tend to lag behind in safety ratings in part because they're usually redesigned every seven years or so, less often than big-selling sedans, so it takes longer for safety improvements to be implemented into new vehicles.
Many scientists, public health experts and consumer advocates in the United States and abroad, though, have suggested that American beef exports are lagging at least in part because United States safety standards are lax compared with those in Europe and East Asia.
We found that the measurement and monitoring of safety in other industries has evolved to encompass both lagging and leading indicators, to examine several different facets of safety and to use a variety of different methods of assessment and measurement.
Government's responsibility during an economic crisis is, first and foremost, to fill the gaps left by the lagging private economy and to provide the social safety net necessary to get people through difficult periods.
Nepal's aviation safety standards lag far behind the global average, according to an International Civil Aviation Organization audit released last year, which ranked it as one of the most dangerous countries for air travel in the Asia-Pacific region.
