Business travelers have long complained about uncomfortable regional airplanes, but recent revelations about low pay for the crew and sketchy rest standards are raising new questions about a more unsettling topic: safety.
It was disappointing that there was no reference to the strong protective effect of breastfeeding in the prevention of sudden infant death syndrome (Sids) in the commentary on Peter Fleming's important and seminal work on this topic (Safety in slumbers, 27 August).
If the result page of doing a search contains a link to an MSDS, the topic 'Safety' is highlighted.
Potential topics include safety in the home, activities for people with dementia and end-of-life care.
There was also the half-hour Comedy Central show Important Things with Demetri Martin, in which he applied his trademark style to single topics like safety, attention and chairs.
"Since May, there have been four meetings between New Jersey Transit officials and union leadership on the topics of safety and security," he said.
The ONS report, which brings together the latest social and economic data from a mixture of government releases and organisations, aims to create an idea of how the UK feels about a range of society topics from safety to happiness and how other OECD countries compare.
The study opens up a new area for consumer understanding dealing with the perception of intangible topics including safety, compliance, and 'good-for-you'.
The BeSAFE intervention aims at 4 major topics on safety in or around the home of children aged 12 to 24 months; prevention of falling, poisoning, drowning and burning [ 5, 8, 16- 22].
Owing to the complex nature of the topic 'patient safety', delineating the literature on this topic is far from straightforward.
