atw: Re: O.T. Brainwave - Finding how drivers think... or don't th ink!
- From: Anna Tedborn <AnnaT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 15:38:13 +1000
My point was, I wasn't there in the car and have no knowledge of why they
ended up in that situation so I'd be reluctant to judge other people as
being brainless when I stand without facts.
Perhaps someone in that car made one bad decision. I wouldn't know. If that
was the case, I wonder if one bad decision makes us redundant as human
beings?
Anna
-----Original Message-----
From: HALL Bill [mailto:Bill.HALL@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, 6 August 2004 3:21 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: O.T. Brainwave - Finding how drivers think... or don't
think!
Anna,
You are of course right. What is the cost/price of a human life?
However, from the reports I read, the car had not been hit by a boom gate -=
there are 4-6 tracks at that crossing and if you are hard up against a gat=
e you are probably free of the tracks anyway (i.e., the car last night that=
was hit by the gate wasn't hit by any trains). Possibly the car had centra=
l locking, and the driver didn't have the wit to unlock the doors, so perha=
ps only one of the three was actually brainless before being hit.
Perhaps I don't have much sympathy, because the authoring environment I wor=
k in documents large, complicated and inherently dangerous machinery that c=
an very easily kill its operators (even when they are not being used for th=
at purpose). We have some fairly recent object lessons in our industry - e.=
g., Longford gas plant and Westralia) where people have been killed through=
no fault of their own due to bad, nonexistent, or unread-unfollowed docume=
ntation.
We try to instigate a strong safety culture in our writers, documentation m=
anagement and delivery systems, and equipment operators in order to anticip=
ate dangers and prevent needless injury and death (and not just for legal r=
easons). However, even a strong safety culture is powerless against thought=
less fools.
Irrespective of their friends and families, our species is probably better =
off without such people - but all too often they take out others at the sam=
e time they end their own lives through their lethally brainless actions or=
inactions. Today I have also just finished reading details of the Staten I=
sland Ferry accident in New York that killed 11 people because the pilot di=
dn't report medical conditions and the ferry company didn't enforce or appa=
rently even deliver their safety policy documents to their crews. I am not =
feeling very sympathetic with brainless people.
Regards,
Bill
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| From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Anna Tedborn
| Sent: Friday, 6 August 2004 2:42 PM
| To: 'austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
| Subject: atw: Re: O.T. Brainwave - Finding how drivers=20
| think... or don't
| think!
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| So Bill, what is the price of a human life?
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| I'm sorry you were 4 hrs late to work, together with a lot of=20
| other people.
| I however feel more for the 3 people's families who now deal=20
| with the loss
| of loved ones.=20
|=20
| Anna
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