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Hans
Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 06:07 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

As short as possible: Just keep it safe.
As bikers we are keen on safety: Good garment, good maintenance, high quality parts, defensive riding, advanced courses etc.
Are we on safety during daily life ? I am not: Never reading manuals because their numerous boring and silly safety warnings. Dangerous tools made you think for yourself.
But common household things have no manuals and there are accidents happening.
In an hurry or in unusual circumstances: There it went wrong numerous times: Running downstairs overlooking the cat, running upstairs: Changing a light bulb with help of an chair on a table. Nothing wrong with that, if te chair is stable and not an tube-framed-spring-cushioned item. Wisdom comes with the years? Maybe for some, not for me.
Last year, in preparation for moving out, the public trash service was already starting in our lane to collect old furniture, when it sprang in mind that I could get rid of a wooden platform, made for posing purposes. 35 kg and clumsy. That means 77 lbs and clumsy.
It had to come down two stairs. Help of my wife. Halfway the last stairs my wife misinterpreted my answer and let it go: I was just in the middle to replace both feet and one hand, in a single mouvement, to keep the speed up.
Well, the speed was kept up: accelerating.
To prepare a soft landing against a glass panel hall door, I protruded my butt backward.
Almost well.
The platform pushed me through two panels and I was sitting, double folded in that door. Warm around my head and a cool piece of glass pressing against my throat. Had to helped out by my wife.
It had made apparently some sound, because the service men came walking upon the driveway. "Can I do something for you." They asked. Of course: Take that platform with you.
No, no, they would call an ambulance. All that blood around my face of course. Assured them that all was well enough, after some wiping with a towel.
And then, one of them, told me his story: His uncle, much younger than me, died last year in an identical accident, just preparing for moving out, but his head did hit the marble floor.
Next time I WILL grab the soap, when it slips out off my hand, during a shower.
I don`t want to end my life like the human cannon ball: He died not as result of his dangerous act, but by tetanus after stepping on rusty nail on the area of his show.
I will keep safety in mind at daily things, from now on. Do you ?
Hans
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Dsergison
Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 10:51 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I have alot of dangerous stuff around the house. Mercieless stuff just waiting to rend you limb from limb. Everything from the menacing 5hp machine tools, to innocent looking glass shelved entertainment system racks. Don't overlook the innocent looking stuff. Last year we cought our 2 year old twin nieces climbing up the glass shelves! scary.
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Seanp
Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 04:40 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Not trying to make light of things, but this sounds like something out of "Final Destination"

Anyway...

We do a thing called Risk Management in my profession, and it's a continuous 5-step process:
1) Identify Hazards - We have tactical risks and accidental risks. Tactical is obvious - someone is trying to kill you. Accidental is just about everything else that can hurt or kill you.
2) Assess Hazards - We fill out a risk assessment worksheet by figuring out the probability of something happening, (Frequent, Likely, Occasional, Seldom, or Unlikely) and the severity, (Catastrophic, Critical, Marginal, or Negligible.) This gives us a risk level of Extremely High, High, Moderate, or Low.
3) Develop Controls - This entails figuring out means of trying to lessen the risk, by controlling it somehow. There are three basic ways to control risk - Educational (training), Physical (barriers, signs, etc.) or Avoidance (eliminate the presence of the hazard).
4) Implement Controls - Once you've figured out how to control the risk, put that into action.
5) Supervise & Evaluate - This is where you make sure the controls are always present, and that any new risks that pop up are dealt with accordingly, by starting back at step 1.

So that's what we do for large-scale operations. If it's just one person, then you sort of do the same thing, abbreviated, in your head. For instance, when I ride, I know that there are quite a few risks. I don't want to avoid it, (obviously - I like it!) so I have to use Physical or Educational controls. I have taken the BRC twice, and have read numerous books on the subject of safe riding. Those are my educational controls. I always wear my full-face helmet, my Aerostich, gloves, ear plugs, protective sunglasses when needed, and over the ankle boots. Those are my physical controls. So I don't necessarily fill out a risk assessment every time I ride, I just do it in my head. But I try to do that with anything that might be risky...

Anyway, sorry for being so verbose, but this is a big thing for us, since there are so many dangerous things we do. And I think it's a great system, and can be applied to so many things other than military operations.

Sean
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Charlieboy6649
Posted on Saturday, March 12, 2005 - 12:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Can you say ORM???

Operational Risk Management... Yes they push it hard to us, but the thing is, I've seen people who use ORM in their daily thinking/attitudes benefit greatly from it. Less loss/down time due to mishaps...

Motorcycling is no different
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Fullpower
Posted on Saturday, March 12, 2005 - 05:39 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

my idea of risk management is to keep a loaded chamber at all times.
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Charlieboy6649
Posted on Saturday, March 12, 2005 - 08:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Too bad the gun club won't let us bring loaded guns on base anymore...
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Nedwreck
Posted on Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 06:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Fullpower wrote: "my idea of risk management is to keep a loaded chamber at all times."

Condition 1 carry as well? When I carry one of the 1911 variants I own, that's how I wear it. Hammer back, thumb safety on.

Bob
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Swampy
Posted on Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 10:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

AMT 380 Backup.
One time the wife left me alone, I had just cleaned a couple hundred rounds of 9mm cases and I was ready to reload them. My wifes dog, on loan from Satan, had had a litter of pups spawned from some terrier two miles away. To keep the pups from pooping all over the house I had placed a table leaf in front of the doorway trapping the pups in the entryway. To keep anyone from tripping over the table leaf on the way out of the kitchen I rolled the portable dishwasher infront of the doorway partially blocking the entryway and kitchen. It was a beautiful summer day, the wife and kids were gone, I was on my way out of the house with two shopping bags of clean 9mm cases in my arms that I had just picked off the kitchen table and rushed past the portable dishwasher partially blocking the entryway. In the joyful hurry to get out in the garage and begin reloading shells I tripped on the table leaf in the entryway, doing a superman into the opened front door to the outside. I struck the door head on with my eyebrow and then hit the floor dragging my nose across the striker on the way down. Of course my hands safely clutching its precious cargo all the way to the floor. When I came to, I immediately felt the blood pouring out of my eyebrow and nose, and the puppies jumping playfully all over me. I managed to crawl over to the neighbor ladys house for my ride into the hospital.

Truly, the home is the most dangerous place.

Then there's the story of the noodle under the fingernail.
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