European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 c the stars and stripes Friday october 11, 1991mr. Baby proof or answers cry for safety new York apr they listen to whale sounds at birth they eat special delivery baby food they ride around in $1,000 european prams. And now the babies of yuppies can take their first Steps in Homes baby proofed by a professional a or. Baby roofer. A a there a no place like Home a says or. Baby roofer a for things that Are dangerous to the  or. Baby roofer is Anthony Simnowski a Young father and contractor who was spending a lot of time adapting apartments and houses for children. So last year he branched out and formed new York baby proofing co. For a fee he will rid a Home of the myriad threats to Young life and limb. Most of his clients Are Young professional couples who Are Security conscious a or Security obsessed a but Lack the time or the know How to baby proof their own places. For $45, Simnowski will evaluate a Home and explain what must be done to make it Safe for creeping crawling and toddling. The work itself can Cost thousands but most apartments can be baby proofed for about $300 a a less than a stroller a said Simnowski a wife and partner Mary Ann. Although some prudent souls retain the Simnowski before the children Are ambulatory and sometimes even before they Are born most Call for help Only when the need has become All too apparent. When Simnowski arrives there a often been what he describes As a an incident a a fall a Burn an electrical Shock. A generally the child is crawling around and the parents arc pulling their hair  parents such As Neil Ochsner and Janine Golding Ochsner whose son Joseph crawled at 5 months and is walking at 9 months. In his Short but Active life Joseph has pulled a Telephone answering machine Down on his head yanked a stereo speaker off the Wall and sampled the dogs food. A a he a a Little menace a said his adoring Mother. Simnowski is often dismayed by what he sees. A there Are a lot of common sense things people Are oblivious to. It s amazing what you  you find potentially poisonous plants on the floor heavy lamps on tables with Long easy to grab tablecloths Ming vases on Coffee tables. You find a chair near a window or Extension cords spreading out like Jungle vines or an electrical outlet without socket covers or even a plate. Although some clients believe they have substantially Mary Ann and Anthony Simnowski demonstrate a safety product with the help of their 8vi-month-old son Perry. Baby proofed their Homes a most have done a Quarter of what they should a Simnowski said. A there Are a thousand things they never thought  things like velcro snaps for stereo Cabinet doors Var covers and toilet seat locks. Toilet seat locks a children like to play in water a he explained. Some apartments have dangerously hot water so Simnowski installs Bathtub faucet handle covers to prevent a child from turning on the water and sometimes a thermostat to limit water temperature. Simnowski also installs the obvious window guards Radiator enclosures Cabinet locks and Gates. He tacks electrical cords to the Bottom of tables and covers doorknobs with a fitting that makes them difficult to turn. Homes should be safer a More than 2 million children a year Are injured there a but Why hire someone to do what generations of parents did themselves Janine Golding Ochsner an investment banker managed to survive childhood even though she grew up in a Home that had never been visited by a pro baby roofer. But her House had lots of space and relatively few appliances. Now she lives in a two bedroom Manhattan apartment jammed with electrical devices and other potential hazards. And she is pregnant. A i thought of everything that could go wrong a she said a but i  do anything about it  so she called Simnowski. Jennifer Strabley Brown a Manhattan apartment Dweller whose infant son William has yet to crawl agrees. Or. Baby roofer a gives you a level of Comfort that you done to have if its your first child and you done to know what you re doing a she  oks substance tests for transport workers Washington a the House on wednesday overwhelmingly approved mandatory drug and alcohol testing that could involve More than 6.3 million transportation workers As lawmakers responded to August s deadly subway crash in new York. The legislation would require random tests for Many workers in the airline Railroad truck and bus industries As Well As for employees of local mass transit systems. Air traffic controllers and other Federal aviation administration workers also would be covered. A people have a right to know that those to whom they re consigned in the area of mass transportation Are free of substance abuse and sober a said rep. William j. Hughes in a. Hughes helped write the testing provisions along with rep. Lawrence Coughlin a a. Sen. John c. Danforth a to. And several other lawmakers. The drug testing language on which there was no separate vote was part of a $35.2 billion measure financing Federal transportation programs for fiscal 1992, which began oct. 1. The House approved the spending legislation with a 374-49 vote. The measure is expected to be approved by the Senate As Early As next week and quickly signed into Law by president Bush. The Overall Bill contains about $600 million for Road projects in lawmakers Home districts $3.8 billion for mass Tran sit programs and $2.4 billion to modernize aviation equipment throughout the country. A dozen drug testing Bills similar to the measure debated wednesday have been approved by the Senate since 1987, Only to die in the House. Labor unions have vehemently fought the legislation in the past and some a such As the air line pilots association a still oppose it. The pilots group contends that the tests Are an invasion of privacy and that no crash involving a scheduled airline has been caused by drug or alcohol abuse. Nonetheless Union opposition has slackened since a speeding new York City subway train derailed aug. 29, killing five people. Authorities said the Driver had been drinking before reporting to work. Since last year government regulations have required random drug tests for aviation trucking and bus Industry workers whose jobs directly affect the Public a safety. For example airline pilots Are subject to the tests but clerical workers employed by an airline Are not. The rules also require drug tests in those industries before a person is hired after an Accident and when any person is suspected of drug or alcohol abuse. The legislation would for the first time require alcohol testing As Well extend All of the tests to commuter bus and rail lines and give the existing regulations the Force of Law. Crew member injured in biosphere Oracle Ariz. Apr one of eight people in the biosphere Experiment lost the tip of her Finger in an Accident and May have to be taken out of the sealed environment an official of the project said thursday. Jane Poynter 29, was injured while operating a Rice hulling machine wednesday said Kathy Dyhr spokeswoman for the project. The Finger was reattached by the Crews doctor but because the Bone was Cut she May have to be taken out temporarily for surgery by a specialist Dyhr said. A decision on whether to remove her will be made in the next two or three dues the spokeswoman said. The Crew of eight was scaled into the 3-acre, Glas enclosed environment sept. 26, intending to stay inside for two years without material Contact with the outside world. If Poynter were taken out through the air locks for surgery it would not invalidate the Experiment to see if humans can run a self sustaining environment Dyhr said. A it  be considered breaking closure Quot she said. Poynter the projects farm manager from Surrey England in a Telephone interview said the injury would not a feet her participation in the Experiment. She caught the Middle Finger of her left hand in a machine that removes the hulls from grains of harvested Rice Dyhr said. The Accident took off a Section of Finger about Down to the end of the Nail including Bone she said. Or. Roy Walford who has a Well equipped infirmary reattached the Finger and Poynter was comfortable on painkillers Dyhr said. But because of the Bone loss w Uford believes surgery by a specialist May be necessary she said. Walford will Monitor the Healing and decide within two or three Davs whether to have her sent out to a specialist Dyhr said. Walt Ord said Poynter a spirits were a pretty Good. Its hard to keep her  bites Model at photo session Manchester . A a Model posing for an and with a lion was injured when the beast suddenly clamped its jaws on her head during a photo session. Shannon Audley 23, was hospitalized in stable condition. Photographer Bill Melton said Audley and the 6-year-old lion were moving their Heads to the same Side when the lion snapped at her. A Trainer jammed his Arm into the animals Mouth to protect the woman Melton said