Quote: (Originally Posted by
Ben Field)
With all this debate and analysis of accident and fatalities people have mentioned that we ought to look at the "almost" accident, ones where we've got out with brown trousers and laughed about it at the pub.
Obviously there are far more of these than fatalities and in many more different catergories, I'm not really even sure what information we should capture.
Anyway, to start the ball rolling here is my own personal list of shame, feel free to add your own experiences and when the thread grows old and tired I'll sum them into some dubious statistics we can all argue about- ok?
(FWIW I count 3 of mine as Diver Error and 1 and Hardware Design Error)
Guys, this is all well, but not very structured
Please allow me to observe that all these close calls will only be statistics if not discussed and analysed individually (See a LONG thread about the merrits of statistics and per incedinet analysis). Therefor I urge you to do this more througly if you feel that your mishap was unique, and also be more through in explaning how your will prevent the mishap, and if simple design-changes could resolve the issue.
I fear this thread will just drown in noise, and have no real analysis.
Nicolai