From: "Stuart, Ralph" <Ralph.Stuart**At_Symbol_Here**KEENE.EDU>
Subject: Fwd: [DCHAS-L] [New post] Health and Safety II?
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 13:58:55 +0000
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Message-ID: 83968C1D-5F0C-4CB4-B742-7BBEDD2D9B67**At_Symbol_Here**keene.edu
Demystify:
This blog post describes a safety culture challenge I have encountered in the research lab setting - balancing managing risk with pushing into areas with unknown hazards. It also describes a cultural stress that develops in discussions between emergency responders
and people who work with hazards under controlled circumstances.
At a recent conference I attended, there was a paper describing an attempt to "manage" the risks involved in rock climbing. This highlighted the desire of climbers to push the boundaries to demonstrate mastery over evermore seemingly "unsafe" situations. (Solo
unaided, unsupported climbs reliant only on the courage, skill and wit of the individual climber?). [�]
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