Posts Tagged ‘Transportation Security Administration’

• Biometrics

  • August 19th, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: ARK Systems, biometric identification, biometric identification system, biometrics, can credentials, card readers, credential, credentials, flash pass, identification system, Laboratory tests, personal identification, Pilot facilities, pilot program, scan, security, technological, technological hurdles, Transportation Security Administration, Transportation Worker Identification Credential, TSA, TWIC, TWIC program

  The Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) is, after a long and drawn out process, entering a promising new phase. This article from HSToday.us explains. After 11 September 2001, the federal government decided to credential every worker with access to sensitive… Read More

• Safety of Whole Body Imaging

  • August 5th, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: adiation-emitting, adiation-emitting machines, ARK Systems, baggage screening systems, baggage-screening machines, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Congressman Ed Markey, dangerous, dangerous amounts of radiation, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Ed Markey, Full-body, full-body X-ray screening machines, Greg Soule, health, health and safety, health hazards, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Imaging, Inspector General Richard Skinner, Joe Pistol, levels of radiation, machines, malfunction, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, NIOSH, public health, public health and safety, radiation, radiation health, radiation health and safety, Safety, Safety of Whole Body Imaging, screening machines, screening systems, Transportation Security Administration, TSA, TSA Administrator Joe Pistol, TSA spokesperson, unsafe levels of radiation, Whole body, Whole Body Imaging, X-ray, X-ray screening machines

  A joint report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in September 2008 found that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) did not take proper care of some baggage-screening… Read More