Quote: (Originally Posted by
CeeBee)
Thank you Stuart. You put what I was trying to say quite concisely, and I know from your previous posts that this is the line you have always taken. That was my cause for 'agreeing to disagree' entirely.
Managing the 'what ifs'' will not be an easy task, and hopefully a way around the difficulties can be found. Also, we are all tending to ignore the even more invaluable source of information; the 'close shaves' . Those who have been willing to share the details of these contribute far more, in my opinion as they can relate the incident and their actions and solutions, free from the need for speculation and supposition. Straight from the horses' mouth, so to speak.
Christine x
The nice thing about the "Close Shaves", is that it's a real incident, told by the person it happened to and for some reason, people generally respect admission of that type enough to not be insulting or insinuate stupidity, too bad that can't be the case with fatal mistakes.
I feel that brushing something off, weather it be a near miss or a fatal mistake, as an act of stupidity is quite possibly one of the most dangerous forms of denial we are susceptible to.**to me we are all humans, we all make mistakes and the minute we single some one's mistake out as stupid, we risk thinking that we are above it... i would venture that none of us are above the mistakes that lead to fatalities. Just because we are still alive does not mean we are better than anyone else.**I think we should take every near miss and fatality seriously as if it were something we might do, that way we have a chance of preventing it and we will treat the post with the respect it deserves. Again, the focus on the technicial can lead to confidence that obscures the dangers of the mundane as does brushing off others mistakes.
my o2 cents,