Piltdown Man
Just a few points……I don’t think you read my post and if you did you misunderstood…… and I have no enemies, life is too short!
I agree wholeheartedly that safety requires thinking people, however some can’t think and some don’t think. It may have been Churchill who said ‘that rules were for the blind obedience of idiots and the guidance of wise men’, a sentiment with which I would like to agree but the problem faced by safety practitioners is knowing who the wise men are and who are the idiots! Great offence would be caused [and all kinds of ‘human rights’ infringed!] if the rules were only addressed to the idiots!
It’s a dilemma for safety managers who of course always have an eye [nowadays] on the lawyers and those who might sue them…..another distasteful procedure IMHO.
Don’t worry, you won’t come across me, I don’t work at an airport!