Cape Safety, Inc. - Where Problems Perish

Cape Safety, Inc. - Where Problems Perish

Richard Hughes

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Waquoit Wordsmith Press
Año de edición:
2021
ISBN:
9798201407230
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Cape Safety, Inc. - Where Problems Perish continues the global adventures of the expert men and women of a fictitious top-notch safety consulting firm, internationally recognized as the 'go-to' safety, industrial hygiene, and disaster specialists.Proud of your designer clothes? Look behind the scenes at the factory conditions in Pakistan who tire over your designer duds and rethink it.Read a layman’s explanation of how religious extremism results in the long-term far-reaching effects of deforestation.See how the love of money is a sin, but not for the reasons you think.Eavesdrop on a conversation between experts about how and why the World Trade Center’s construction exacerbated the quick fire spread on that fateful day of September 11, 2001.What are they really doing at New York state’s Plum Island laboratory?Why the term 'spelunker' is an insult.Explore the Japanese superstition of the Number 4.Backpacks for bees? It’s so crazy it just might work.A serious warning about not being coy when giving your weight to the clerk at the airline counter. Where Problems Perish chronicles the continued workplace excitement experienced by the best and brightest, their canine acquaintances, political allies, celebrity friends, and many Cape Cod connections at their headquarters in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

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