Thursday, December 21, 2006

If we had a Real Safety Institute of Australia

We could have answers to questions like, what effect men clipping their nasal hairs for vanity purposes has on exposure to dusts especially toxic dusts such as asbestos, silica, ceramic fibres etc.

But we could also have detailed statistics on incidents in the workplace, giving useful information to identify risks. But not rely so heavily on lost time incidents and the like which is pretty useless information that only hides the truth.

We would have detailed road statistics that not focuss on a predertermained outcome such as speed but show every detail such as depth level of tyre tread at the time of loss of control, or the footwear someone was wearing, for example thongs I believe cause a great number of road accidents becuase of the dely in response time moving from accelarator to brake and even times they get caught on the base of the brake.

There are thousands of other factors that are not included in road statistics in an effort to justify the revenue being raised from speed camera's and drug testing and the like, some other examples would be the condition and wear level of brakes of vehicles involved in incidents, the condition of the stearing components, all the way to oil leaks that could have resulted in an unbalanced vehicle and contributing to the loss of control.

Not to mention the factos of trees, poles, other stationary objects, pedestrians and the ability to have head on's being responsible for the release of energy after a loss of control. But when people with ideas outside the norm are banned how can these questions even be investigated?

And when a predetermained outcome to accident investigations biased the findings we will never significantly reduce the road toll, even with the dramatic improvements to vehicle safety design.

But again without an educated Safety Institute of Australia there will never be the acceptance of knowledge that can save lives but only a power struggle and failure to take hold of the opportunity God has given to save lives.

Regards
Daniel

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