We could easily start a few new threads on this, but I want to respond to a few things:
. . . they'll not only dutifully abide by such proclamations but become conditioned towards relying SOLELY upon them . . .
That would be a failure of your training, if true. Too often I hear guys claim that they don't need all this safety ****; they just need '
experience'. Problem is that they have to survive to get that experience, my favorite definition being,
'Experience: a series of non-fatal accidents'. Basic safety training, PPE, procedures, etc. have to go hand-in-hand with learning the stuff that books can't teach you.
The other is the '
survivor bias': when one or more guys protest that they have done something a certain way for '
a hundred years' (or more!) and never gotten hurt / killed. Obviously, the guys who did die can't chime in. But when folks step back and look from a larger perspective, there are certain trends or common situations in any workplace where injuries are predictable. These are what drive 'new' standards, procedures, regulations, etc. Every crew should not have to experience an injury or 'near miss' personally to gain this awareness, let alone the guys who cut corners.
But the intervention, at least here, has gone too loco for words.
Can't comment on your specific situation, as I am on the other side of the world (but would love to visit someday)!
Back to killing deer, or whatever this thread is normally about . . .
Philbert
