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To: Eagle Eye
Ever see someone doing something blatantly unsafe only to have them tell you that they always do it that way?

Most of life is blatantly unsafe, and the entire emergency response function is blatantly unsafe.

Operating a motor vehicle on the highway is the most blatantly unsafe thing one can do. Flying a rescue helicopter is blatantly unsafe. A fireman that enters a burning building is doing something that is blatantly unsafe. A policeman that approaches an unknown suspect is doing something blatantly unsafe.

There are absolutely no amount of written rules or regulations that can make any of those activities safe.

Yet people, with mindsets like yours, will continue to promulgate more and more written rules and regulations because they foolishly believe that they can make life safe, so long as they have enough three-ring binders with rules.

113 posted on 01/13/2008 7:40:30 AM PST by been_lurking
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To: been_lurking
Operating a motor vehicle on the highway is the most blatantly unsafe thing one can do. Flying a rescue helicopter is blatantly unsafe.

You have proven that you do no know what you are talking about.

A fireman that enters a burning building is doing something that is blatantly unsafe. A policeman that approaches an unknown suspect is doing something blatantly unsafe.

Those are hazardous tasks that can, and are performed safely when those involved follow their training protocols.

It is just painfully obvious that you don't understand simple English let alone much about safety and emergency response.

Odd thing about safety rules and protocols is that most are written in blood, the blood of those that didn't pay attention to them.

And FYI, almost any activity can be performed safely if one understands the hazards and applies proper countermeasures. Yeah, that means that those on nuc subs and those riding on top of space rockets, those that dig deep into the Earth for minerals and those that jump out of perfectly good airplanes follow rules.

114 posted on 01/13/2008 8:17:00 AM PST by Eagle Eye (If you agree with Democrats you agree with America's enemies.)
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