[16675] in APO-L
Re: Risk Management:Musings from the Nat Org I Chair
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph M. Fisher)
Wed Apr 23 19:19:19 1997
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 19:14:03 -0700
Reply-To: "Joseph M. Fisher" <jfisher@RacerX.mse.jhu.edu>
From: "Joseph M. Fisher" <jfisher@RacerX.mse.jhu.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <9704221954.AA11504@RacerX.mse.jhu.edu>
Is the risk management policy available on WWW? Anybody care to post the
site? (Even if it's Fuzz's - never does any harm to let people know where
the info is!)
> Does your chapter have safety gloves? Eye protection? A first aid kit?
> If you work with tools (power or non-) at a project, are your members
> adequately instructed before they are allowed to use equipment? If you
> play touch football for fellowship, do players have mouthpieces?If you
> have an alumni cookout, do you have a copy of the risk management document
> present for them to read?
I hope this isn't the intent of the policy, because I don't see most
chapters doing all this stuff. Instructing people in the proper use of
circular saws and the sledgehammer whose head has a tendency to slide
off... that's just common sense! That doesn't take time or money
either. But having the document available for reading, and, say, delaying
a project because someone forgot the goggles to go along with the power
drill - like when did this becomes an Army ops manual??
I guess what I'm asking is - at what point does advising people of their
risk become inadequate? The touch football example is what really gets
me... for one thing there are FAR more dangerous things to play... Tackle
Ultimate Frisbee for example :) ...but the overriding rule should be, if
you don't want to get hurt, don't play. Not some rule that mouthpieces
must be available.
-- Cyrano
