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To: maceng2 who wrote (73545)	5/17/2010 8:47:34 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Yes; <The human attitude component in safety awareness is crucial. > Dumb compliance with swarms of rules incurs very high costs with low returns on safety. Far better to have intelligent risk management with skillful people who learn from a young age. Wearing high visibility jackets and helmets isn't safety even if whole boxes of checklists are ticked off too. Traffic safety people are puzzled about why death and injury continue apace despite very safe vehicles, seat belts, speed limits at crawling speed and draconian enforcement. My greatest danger is now total boredom and loss of concentration. When I was moving briskly along, with full attention on the road, I was much safer than now. Talking on cellphones for example does not decrease safety. It's safer to talk on a phone on a long boring stretch than to gaze around or nod off to sleep. People have to learn to manage their risks and stopping them thinking for themselves is the worst thing to do. It means they stop thinking altogether and just make sure they tick boxes and comply with silly bureaucratic process and ignore it because it's so obviously over the top and even counter productive. The blown well might well have been caused by such "safety" processes. We don't know yet what happened. Mqurice