Risk Management and Risk Mitigation involve one of four (or five) strategies: avoidance, retention, sharing, transferring, and loss prevention & reduction. You can get stuff done with a balance of these strategies.
"Safety First" grinds risk mitigation down to "avoidance", and even that can't be used to protect you in all cases. It limits your imagination and problem solving strategies, and ultimately, it doesn't even keep you safe.
Life is a non-zero risk activity until you assume room temperature. Suck it up, buttercups.
Traveling 3000 miles on a transatlantic flight (6000 miles on domestic routes).
Eating 100 charbroiled steaks.
Eating 40 tablespoons of peanut butter.
Receiving a whole body dose of radiation of 10 millirem (0.1 millisievert)
What do they all have in common?
Each one of those activities has a 1-in-1-million chance of killing you.
Anyone not going to drive their car tomorrow?
Anyone giving up steak and/or peanut butter?
Staying away from airplane travel now?
(You get 300 to 400 millirem of background radiation per year, so no avoiding that.)
You understand your risks in life and you mitigate them. This is what "Safety First" was likely intended to be before people made it a dogma in their homemade religion instead of a slogan.
Too bad these same people didn't adopt the dogma of "THINK!"
Was leaving the JOC in Bagram one night around midnight. I was the S3 for an MI Bn, and had a rather long day. We did shift work, but, as you know, the boss doesn't get to leave if the work isn't done.
So I'm about to cross Disney Drive (maybe 10 meters wide) at the guard shack, and this NCO comes out to say, "Uh, Sir, you need your Safety Belt."
I looked at him, then did an exaggerated look with my hand above my eyes to block the 'sun' both ways.
"Sergeant, I think I can make it across the street." I retorted--was a bit cranky, long day--and I despise(d) the tyranny of Sergeant Major dispensed dipshittery.
The poor guy looked at my like, "Come on Sir, this isn't me..."
So, I walked back to my office to get my Safety Belt...
Doctrinally, Military Intelligence is never held in reserve. You should have seen the hoops we had to jump to get our guys (HUMINT) outside the wire to do their jobs. Absolute cowardice up the food chain.
Instead of "Safety First" it seemed the motto was, "Not On My Watch!" No negligent discharges. No alcohol related incidents. No sex. No traffic accidents.
I remember there was solar eclipse the day of the funeral of my Father. This was about 20 years ago. My brother caught a picture with his phone camera (very low quality compared to today) and it showed a small black dot that opposed the Sun.
He took it while in the car, coming back home from the funeral. There were too many people crammed in that small car, no safety at all, but here I am. The weather was nice.
". . .sitting absolutely still in what you think is the safest place. . ." The safetyists can't even do that because sitting is the new smoking. Or something.
Here in longhouse supreme (Canada), our school board shifted a Professional Development day (day off for students, not teachers) to April 8th in order to maximize the safety of the students. When I found out, my immediate response was “of course they did!” Nothing surprises anymore.
Way, way back in the early 80's on my first port visit to Subic Bay in the Philippines, the ship's chief corpsman stood on the quarterdeck handing out condoms, one per "head". For some it was one too many, for others about a dozen too short.
Well argued. Life itself is unsafe and defined by the very fact that dealing with risk is the very definition of a life well-lived. We need only be responsible and reasonable in our choices.
Of course people will peek, hardware will malfunction and who knows what other mayhem might ensue. The only solution is to ban eclipses. And if this cant’t be done in a timely manner, say within 10 years, then we must ban the viewing of these menaces!
"Safety first" is what EVE was uttering straight after THE SERPENT - fear - got hold of EVE'S MIND suggesting to correct GOD ALMIGHTY'S "error" and ADAM falling for THE SAME BLINDNESS serving EVE'S MADNESS instead of relying on GOD ALMIGHTY'S WISDOM MIGHT AND GRACE ... and here we are millennia later inhabiting THE MENTAL ASYLUM PROPHESIED BY GOD ALMIGHTY!
Safety First is how parents get convinced, by doctors pimping substances from the childhood vaccine schedule, to place their charges in harms way.
Parents of autistic children are beginning to be red-pilled.
Get convinced=mandated in many countries...
Risk Management and Risk Mitigation involve one of four (or five) strategies: avoidance, retention, sharing, transferring, and loss prevention & reduction. You can get stuff done with a balance of these strategies.
"Safety First" grinds risk mitigation down to "avoidance", and even that can't be used to protect you in all cases. It limits your imagination and problem solving strategies, and ultimately, it doesn't even keep you safe.
Life is a non-zero risk activity until you assume room temperature. Suck it up, buttercups.
I don't see "scapegoating" in that list.
In a related headline:
'The coward dies a thousand deaths!'
And dreams of becoming Jack the Ripper to Karens.
Driving 30 miles in a car.
Traveling 3000 miles on a transatlantic flight (6000 miles on domestic routes).
Eating 100 charbroiled steaks.
Eating 40 tablespoons of peanut butter.
Receiving a whole body dose of radiation of 10 millirem (0.1 millisievert)
What do they all have in common?
Each one of those activities has a 1-in-1-million chance of killing you.
Anyone not going to drive their car tomorrow?
Anyone giving up steak and/or peanut butter?
Staying away from airplane travel now?
(You get 300 to 400 millirem of background radiation per year, so no avoiding that.)
You understand your risks in life and you mitigate them. This is what "Safety First" was likely intended to be before people made it a dogma in their homemade religion instead of a slogan.
Too bad these same people didn't adopt the dogma of "THINK!"
Only disciples of THE SYNAGOGUE OF HALF-TRUTHS believe that there is anything that is dangerous.
Drinking to much water is toxic ... says it all!
The same applies to "background radiation" and anything else
PS: CULT not RELIGION ... as it involves IDOLS and not GOD ALMIGHTY - I AM THAT I AM!
Oh lord my PTSD from safety pukes and making soldiers wear safety belts…. In war zones…
The rank of Sergeant Major is now tarnished forever. One might as well have the Title of Colonel Blimp.
Was leaving the JOC in Bagram one night around midnight. I was the S3 for an MI Bn, and had a rather long day. We did shift work, but, as you know, the boss doesn't get to leave if the work isn't done.
So I'm about to cross Disney Drive (maybe 10 meters wide) at the guard shack, and this NCO comes out to say, "Uh, Sir, you need your Safety Belt."
I looked at him, then did an exaggerated look with my hand above my eyes to block the 'sun' both ways.
"Sergeant, I think I can make it across the street." I retorted--was a bit cranky, long day--and I despise(d) the tyranny of Sergeant Major dispensed dipshittery.
The poor guy looked at my like, "Come on Sir, this isn't me..."
So, I walked back to my office to get my Safety Belt...
Doctrinally, Military Intelligence is never held in reserve. You should have seen the hoops we had to jump to get our guys (HUMINT) outside the wire to do their jobs. Absolute cowardice up the food chain.
Instead of "Safety First" it seemed the motto was, "Not On My Watch!" No negligent discharges. No alcohol related incidents. No sex. No traffic accidents.
No winning.
bsn
The rank of Sgt. Major has a particular glory about it.
A peculiar institution
🤮
I remember there was solar eclipse the day of the funeral of my Father. This was about 20 years ago. My brother caught a picture with his phone camera (very low quality compared to today) and it showed a small black dot that opposed the Sun.
He took it while in the car, coming back home from the funeral. There were too many people crammed in that small car, no safety at all, but here I am. The weather was nice.
Safety is overrated.
". . .sitting absolutely still in what you think is the safest place. . ." The safetyists can't even do that because sitting is the new smoking. Or something.
Because life inevitably leads to death, 'safety first' means to never be alive at all.
Here in longhouse supreme (Canada), our school board shifted a Professional Development day (day off for students, not teachers) to April 8th in order to maximize the safety of the students. When I found out, my immediate response was “of course they did!” Nothing surprises anymore.
Should I wear my mask, house cleaning gloves and face shield when looking at the solar eclipse? - Sarcasm
Safety third.
Way, way back in the early 80's on my first port visit to Subic Bay in the Philippines, the ship's chief corpsman stood on the quarterdeck handing out condoms, one per "head". For some it was one too many, for others about a dozen too short.
Well argued. Life itself is unsafe and defined by the very fact that dealing with risk is the very definition of a life well-lived. We need only be responsible and reasonable in our choices.
Of course people will peek, hardware will malfunction and who knows what other mayhem might ensue. The only solution is to ban eclipses. And if this cant’t be done in a timely manner, say within 10 years, then we must ban the viewing of these menaces!
"Safety first" is what EVE was uttering straight after THE SERPENT - fear - got hold of EVE'S MIND suggesting to correct GOD ALMIGHTY'S "error" and ADAM falling for THE SAME BLINDNESS serving EVE'S MADNESS instead of relying on GOD ALMIGHTY'S WISDOM MIGHT AND GRACE ... and here we are millennia later inhabiting THE MENTAL ASYLUM PROPHESIED BY GOD ALMIGHTY!
FAITH, PRAYER AND ENDURANCE!
It is about risk management! https://frederickrsmith.substack.com/p/risk-mismanagement-railroaded