Risk Taking Behaviour and Toxiplazma parasite

If we had an educated and qualified Safety Institute of Australia we might have more research into things like the Toxiplazma Parasite!

This is a parasite that is caught from cats! It can also be caught from eating undercooked meat. It lives in the persons brain, or any mamals for that matter.

But the interest to Safety and especially those that focuss on behavioural safety is with the way it slows down our reaction times!

Research overseas into first blood donors shows that reaction times are greatly decreased in all those effected with the parasite. Further research into motor vehicle accidents showed that those with the parasite were twice as likely to be involved in a motor accident reflecting the slowed reaction times.

With the U.S. showing rates of infection of around 50% of the population and I suspect Australia would be similar rates.

These rates are actually higher than those drinking and driving!

So do we ban all drivers infected with Toxiplazma Parasites or do we design our roads removing energy release points to protect people from a loss of control???

Seems pretty obvious that the roads need to be redesigned and we cannot depend on behavioural controls, if we are to focuss on behavioural controls it looks like we need to ban at least 50% of the population from driving a motor vehicle.

But then if we had a real Safety Institute in Australia it would be dedicated to researching these issues but as it is an mens club exclusive to those that only care about their own careers at the expense of Safety becomming a profession research of this nature will not happen, in fact many of the chartered fellows, fellows and members are unable to undertake research becuase if the could they would definately be qualified and leading safety into a profession.

Regards
Daniel