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Structure collapses can be prevented

With news this morning that the Florida Department of Transportation has closed the southbound lanes of the Roosevelt Bridge in Stuart, Florida due to the risk of its “imminent collapse”,…

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Root Cause Analysis and Proximate Cause

Root cause analysis is “a systematic process for identifying ‘root causes’ of problems or events and an approach for responding to them.” (Washington State Department of Enterprise Services). Root cause…

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The right to trial by jury

In 1788 Thomas Jefferson stated “I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of…

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