Danger Dogs Series

From their Cape Cod compound, the brightest safety consultants in their profession take you into their world to resolve local as well as global safety, health, and environmental conflicts. Meet characters you wish you knew, maybe even characters you do know dealing with true incidents set in a fictional context. Written by a Cape Cod-based safety consultant with over 40 years of experience, Richard Hughes's first novel in an exciting new series happily takes the reader into different kinds of adventures, ones that you quite likely never thought existed. Politics and purpose together in a great little company. A safety course in a novel or a novel kind of safety course?

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.

Cape Safety, Inc. - Cast of Characters continues the travels and travails of the men and women of a fictitious top-notch safety consulting firm, internationally recognized as the "go-to" safety, industrial hygiene, and disaster specialists. Look over their shoulders as they describe the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 in Boston, as a giant tank full of molasses exploded, covering the city. Learn how a team of hazmat specialists disposed of 70,000 lbs. of rotted food in the U.S.S. Cole, how to avoid getting hit by lightning, just how badly Hollywood's stunt performers--including Jackie Chan--get hurt in every part of their bodies and why no one is doing anything about it. Read a fascinating, true tale of how a 1300-acre lake in Louisiana literally "went down the drain" in one of the most bizarre stories ever told.   The diverse collection of personable experts at Cape Safety, Inc. remain the busiest safety guys and gals around, but don't think for a minute it's all work and no play. Cape Safety Inc. - Cast of Characters, the 2nd in his Danger Dogs Series, continues Mr. Hughes's unique genre of "actual fiction" combining the elements of true news events with fictional characters, set on picturesque Cape Cod.

Follow the adventures of the CSI consultants as they battle 21st-century problems like artificial intelligence, environmental issues, and the ethics of gene editing, among other new matters. Investigate the ramifications of letting AI decide loan applications, prison sentences, and drone targets; if a computer is doing it, what could go wrong? Why has architecture become hostile? Cow burps really are more damaging to the planet than you thought. Whales are better for the planet than you thought. Rat snakes aren't the bad guys anymore. Dickens characters were among the first recyclers. A filled diaper is loaded with plastics. Cobalt mining – the next frontier. Why our Outer Space Treaty is starting to mean something. Armadillos have migrated as far north as North Carolina; will they soon be in your backyard? Attack of the Stinkbugs – a modern-day horror tale. All the above and more are tackled by our CSI heroes.

Cape Safety, Inc. - Change of Climate, No. 5 in the Danger Dogs Series, takes us from land mine detection in Ukraine to refloating the Ever Forward in Baltimore, Maryland, from underground aquifers in California to entertainment submarines engaged in hostage exchanges, from preserving a historic Blue Riband contender; to choosing between lobsters or blue whales in Maine; the safety, health, and environmental specialists of Cape Safety, Inc., and now its West Coast branch, Cliff Safety, Inc., solve more, urgent and emerging world problems, and expand their footprint from coast to coast, while the climate clock ticks down.  

The 6th book in the series, Cape Safety, Inc. - S. H. E. - Safety, Health & Environmental, captures over 50 headline interventions involving the diverse cast of characters better known as the E. H. & S. consultants of C.S.I. Once more, the men—and increasingly, the talented women—of the barely fictional consulting firm travel internationally from their Woods Hole, MA, or San Francisco, CA, headquarters to engage in forward-thinking problem solving at many of the global crises of 2022. Contemporary history in a fun format. A uniquely inspirational genre to keep up with current events in an easy read.

CAPE SAFETY, INC. - NEW BLOOD Danger Dogs Series – No. 7   by Richard Hughes   New Blood takes a far stricter look at how American politics in 2023 is affecting the national and international safety, health, and environmental decisions of the premier S. H. & E. firm, Cape Safety, Inc. and their California branch, Cliff Safety, Inc.   "People are ultimately the firm's engineering specialty," says a staff member of the barely fictional consulting firm. What's really going on in the world? They travel internationally from their Woods Hole, MA, or San Francisco, CA, headquarters to engage in forward-thinking problem-solving at many headline crises of 2023. From East Palestine, Ohio; to Guanabara Bay, Brazil; to the badly exploited African miners in the hidden cobalt mines of the Congo, so we can get the rare earth mineral to power our cell phones; to Divest Food in Massachusetts; to shipbreaking yards in Turkey; to airline bottlenecks with the DOT in Washington, D.C.; to Hanford Atomic Energy in Washington State; even browbeaten Indian welders and pipefitters in Mississippi; to name just a few spots visited by our old friends (and some New Blood, too).   It's not all bad news! Learn about progress in autism; Rhode Island gun control; harvesting the heat off of computers and recycling it; environmentalists' plan to reduce companies' use of plastics; finally, barnacles can be eliminated by getting them to kick away from ships' hulls; nanotechnologies quickly suppress vapor formation, reducing confined space entry safe operation procedures; renewable energy from garbage; innovative lifeboats; Africa's tectonic plates are shifting and creating a new sea, cutting the continent into two.   Contemporary history in a fun format. A uniquely inspirational genre to keep up with current events in a fun way.

THE  NEW GUARD, Book #9 in the Danger Dogs series, follows our intrepid safety, health, and environmental consultants into more international and national problems that require their expertise.   In a unique genre of actual fiction, the consultants of Cape Safety, Inc. and their West Coast enterprise, Cliff Safety, Inc., chase headline incidents that may have made a single news cycle but were then quickly left behind for more breathtaking "Breaking News." THE NEW GUARD rekindles those events with details beyond the sound bite you possibly heard. You'll read unusual stories about: car carrier ship fires the dark day in Boston in 1780 blue economies seed banks fast fashion frailties ship breaking with water rain forest destruction energy storing concrete sexual harassment solutions Amazon delivery driver training a fire on a New England island amazing plastic-eating fungi Fenway Park farming living seawalls armoring Manhattan skateboard failures Codfather matters, and much more. Any trip with a Cape Cod-based CSI consultant will prove interesting, educational, and informative.

It is 2023 and our intrepid Cape Cod health, safety, and environmental consultants, who some call the best in the business, are continuing to travel globally to help those in everyday headlines with their S, H, & E crises. Client problems range from military to millinery; autism to engulfment; Ukraine to San Francisco's historic Cliff House; Amazon to Mexican pig farms; confined spaces to massive Texas large garbage dumps; civil war submarine health to Boston light rail safety; and all manner of issues with the world's new energy needs. Our consultants encounter people against nature, people against people, people against the dangerous machinery their own imaginations had created, people against misinformation, people against deliberate false information, people taking bad risks, and man's hubris toward outwitting obvious perils. These are all cutting-edge challenges for our savvy crew of experts. Can they make a difference? Will they make a difference? If not, how likely is the planet's future if they don't make a difference? Entertaining, informative, educational, and mostly fun reading!

After the escapades chronicled in nine previous books, the men and women of Cape Safety, Inc. must have done it all, you thought. But "they're just getting started." The safety, health & environmental expertise of Cape Safety, Inc. and Cliff Safety, Inc. may be needed now more than ever in this fast-changing technologically sophisticated world. As the country debates "alternative facts" when real facts don't fit personal agendas, clear thinkers—like the consultants of C.S.I.—become more essential than ever. Sawbuck Safety, No. 10 in the series, informs and entertains you with stories of:   Boeing – where is the D.O.T.? Deep sea mining – is it worth the damage? Chemistry and capital punishment – inappropriate bedfellows? Too bright headlights—finally a solution from Nissan The new biggest ship in the world, Icon of the Seas, and the Titanic – what dire commonality is there between them? The Green New Deal and how it benefits the average person with significant savings on utility bills, warmer homes, the ability to cool homes, and improvements for asthmatics Boston's 1st networked geothermal heating system housing development with renewable energy Babcock Ranch, FL—USA's 1st solar-powered town where homes are pre-wired for EV charging The new Seattle Aquarium Ocean Pavilion, which has room for 3500 sea creatures in a natural habitat NASA rethinking their Standard Operating Procedures to stay on top of issues in space. Breathing air systems built into new building construction. A firefighter's dream.