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I used to watch How It's Made all the time.
Safety is fine. At what point does safety become coddling? That's the discussion that should be had.
For my kids we always used the rule: it's OK to get hurt, but I will protect you from real danger. About those chemistry sets: I had one of those too. I even made my job out of it as a researcher. Being afraid of chemicals is not very helpful, but one should know what they are doing. People are afraid of concentrated hydrochloric acid, but if you get that on your skin you have several moments to wash it off without any damage. If you get into contact with hydrofluoric acid that's a valid reason for some panic.
So: knowlegde about what you are doing is very important. Like the Geissler tubes.
Spot on!
Enjoyed your talk! Thanks!
Everyone….use caution. Just use a token amount. Don't use too much caution, save some for the rest of us. If everyone uses an abundance of caution, their won't be any left for the rest of us!!!
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I remember being introduced to the "computator" on How It's Made.
Hi Fran, as a recent subscriber – I LOVE the How It's Made show and can completely relate to binging on it. On safety, I think the pendulum is swinging towards risk-aversity these days. Also fully agree that an "Adult with a capital A" displays good judgement!
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" Let me ride on The Wall of Death one more time/let me ride on the wall of death one more time/you can waste your time on all the other rides/but this is the nearest to bein' alive/oh let me take my chances on the wall of death….. On the wall of death all the world is far from me/on the wall of death it's the nearest to being free…." From The Wall of Death sung by Richard and Linda Thompson.
It would be worth asking if anyone involved in this conversation has ever seen somebody receive a serious injury or even get killed on the job. I've seen several instances of people taken off to the hospital with a fairly serious but non-life threatening injury; and I once worked with a heavy equipment operator who routinely did dangerous things to the point where I refused to work on the same jobsite as he. He finally got fired for yet another incident of disobeying instructions, and probably not just because of his habit of dangerous equipment operation but because he was also a screamer and a yeller and there were constant fights on the job site. He went off to work for another excavation company and was subsequently killed —- buried alive —- while operating an excavator to uncover a high-pressure water pipe. I don't know for certain why he was down in the hole next to the pipe instead of up in the machine, but my guess, based on personal experience with this guy, is that he was yelling at one of the laborers who refused to risk his own life and so the operator jumped out of the machine and into the hole to show the other guy "how it's done". Apparently they were working without a trench box in place, which is supposed to be an OSHA requirement to prevent this type of accident, and in the process of installing a residential tap-off on the water main, or perhaps having damaged the pipe with the excavator, the water came out at high pressure and collapsed the dirt around the pipe, burying the guy.
It's important to note that having a child become seriously injured could not only change the whole rest of their life but it could put the parents in severe financial risk because hospitalizations and medical interventions are costly and many millions of people are under-insured. Here in the US our social safety net is ripped, torn and full of holes, and if you become disabled for life your givernment disability benefits will be minimal. A serious childhood injury could leave you in pain and poverty for however many decades afterward you're able to limp along. And then there are the smaller physical stresses and repetive-motion injuries that didn't seem like much individually but add up over tge years; my wife and I are both retired now, and after a lifetime of fairly physical work we both have bad backs, necks, and hips, and are chronically in discomfort, sometimes debilitatingly so.
There is a significant difference between choosing to take on risk to yourself and yourself only, knowing the risks, versus working for a boss or company that insists you do unsafe things regularly without providing equipment, training and an environment to make the job less fraught with peril. I've had bosses try to put me in situations where If things went wrong I could have suffered serious, life-changing injury or perhaps even death. It's one thing when you're young and, as the young often do, you may have an "I'll live forever" mindset or attitude; but if you don't become more cautious you might not live to get any older. Me, I got smarter and bolder in middle-age and learned to say no.
I think another layer to the problem of paranoid levels of "safety" mixed with total disregard to life and limb, at least somewhat recently, is social media trends. Someone hits a huge audience with garbage information about the danger or safety of something, and far too many people run with it. Maybe I'm just old and blame everything on the social media 😂 My wife mixes priorities awfully bad when it comes to food. She'll throw out piles of food a week before the arbitrary date the brand's marketing team recommended to print on the package just to be, "safe". Then turns around and stores bare packages of raw meat directly on top of the perforated lids of "ready to eat" vegetables, she takes that printing as gospel as well. 🙄
Life is all about balance. When I first read the Bible myself I realized, we, as people, tend to find things that are good, then take them to the extreme until they are bad. Jesus really warned against this. The most obvious example is alcohol. Jesus was not against drinking. His first miracle was turning water into wine. But then he warned against being drunk several times. So alcohol, in and of itself, isn't bad. Its the excess.
Safety is not a bad thing, but as a human race, we think safety is good, so we apply it to the extreme until it becomes oppressive and no longer benefits us.