[16684] in APO-L
Re: Risk Management <> Risk Elimination
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Grossi)
Thu Apr 24 07:25:20 1997
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 07:22:40 EDT
Reply-To: John Grossi <jgrossi@MU.BBN.COM>
From: John Grossi <jgrossi@MU.BBN.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: from "Sven" at Apr 24, 97 12:28 (midnight)
> I feel much safer now that all these rules are in effect for my EMS job.
> Now I wear a fire retardant flight suit, regular boots, and rubber gloves. Ironically, the face shield, goggles, steel toed boots, helmet, etc.
> didn't protect me from the bloody projectile vomit of the dead-guy I was
> performing CPR on when it hit me in the eye. It seems that after walking
> out of the cold and into a warm house, they frost over so you cannot see
> your way up a staircase. To prevent falling down the staircase as the
> wife was running into us and pulling us away from her dead husband, I
> removed them. Fortunately the body didn't have any detectable diseases...nor do I after 3 years...glad those rules were clearly though out.
>
> My point? Use common sense and relax. Life is dangerous, that's what
> makes it so much fun.
I prefer to think of Risk Management in less, graphic
terms...at least before breakfast ;) when your in the casino... don't
step up to craps table without a clue as to the odds. Risk Management
does not say you can't DO something, it says be aware of what your
doing. In today's lawsuit happy world where sneezing in the wrong
direction can cost you two million dollars (as well as the nursery
where the flowers that made you sneeze were grown). You need to get
rid of things that are obvious lawsuit bait. It's a sad comment on our
society...
In Japan if you step in front of a train the Japanese look at each
other and say; "that was dumb", scrape up the remains and go on with
there lives.
In the US if you step in front of a train (like a gentleman did in
NYC) the judge awards you 27 million dollars and your suddenly a
celebrity because the place was not stupid proof.
So don't think of Risk Management as a list of don'ts it's not. It's
an attitude of think BEFORE you do.
-John Grossi
