On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 09:42:31 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 10:46:34 +0100, Justin C
wrote:

You don't have to, you just have to accept that accidents happen. It's
not fate, it's an accident.

There's some truth to that but it's a poor starting point for safety
awareness and prevention.

Accidents are enormously expensive and damaging for everyone concerned
so it pays to do take all reasonable precautions to prevent them.

When I was in the Air Force they had an aggressive safety program
(probably still do :-) with all the inspections, meetings, lectures,
and so on. and, it did eliminate most of the really stupid accidents.
But with all that there were still accidents. In fact the Safety
Manual, that all supervisors were required to know, and tested on
monthly, stated that according to the National Safety Council that
approximately 90% of all accidents were preventable - the other 10%
were acts of God.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)