What’s Your Personal Safety Culture?

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What’s Your Personal Safety Culture?


We all have a Personal Safety Culture, things we do and things we will not do. When you get in a car, you fasten the seat belt, not because you expect to drive into a wall, but because some texting nut may run a stop sign and T-bone your car.


Do you ride your bike in traffic? Roller blade in the streets? Ride a motorcycle without a helmet? Drink curdled milk? Eat 7/11 Shushi? Snow ski in avalanche areas? Bungie jump? Sky dive? Zip line? Walk across frozen lakes late into the melt season? Try to make friends with slathering barking dogs? Are your vaccines up to date? Is your car in good working order? Are your tires bald? Look both ways before crossing the street? Wait for the green light?


Everyday in your life your actions are pre-determined by Your Personal Safety Culture. Stuff you have decided to do or not do in order to preserve health and avoid injury. We all do it.


So why stop when you go diving?


https://journals.viamedica.pl/international_maritime_health/article/view/58319


Your Personal Safety Culture is the foundation we all need to build upon.
 
Wetfun said:
What’s Your Personal Safety Culture?


We all have a Personal Safety Culture, things we do and things we will not do. When you get in a car, you fasten the seat belt, not because you expect to drive into a wall, but because some texting nut may run a stop sign and T-bone your car.


Do you ride your bike in traffic? yes
Roller blade in the streets? don't roller blade
Ride a motorcycle without a helmet? rarely
Drink curdled milk? no
Eat 7/11 Shushi? Sushi, no. But some of there other mystery foods yes
Snow ski in avalanche areas? Don't ski
Bungie jump? No, but willing
Sky dive? No, but willing
Zip line? Did it all the time, no harness, no helmet, just hold on. Old bed mattress under the tree at the end. Brakes were using your leg against the tree. No place will let you do it that way anymore.
Walk across frozen lakes late into the melt season? Never lived far enough north
Try to make friends with slathering barking dogs? Had to, they were my room mate's when I moved in.
Are your vaccines up to date? probably not
Is your car in good working order? yes
Are your tires bald? No, but dry rot is generally a bigger issue
Look both ways before crossing the street? yes
Wait for the green light? Not when right on red is legal.


Everyday in your life your actions are pre-determined by Your Personal Safety Culture. Stuff you have decided to do or not do in order to preserve health and avoid injury. We all do it.


So why stop when you go diving?


https://journals.viamedica.pl/international_maritime_health/article/view/58319


Your Personal Safety Culture is the foundation we all need to build upon.
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You forgot about riding in the bed of a pickup truck, ride in a boat without wearing a life jacket (but one is present), and tow a loaded trailer over 100 MPH.
All done knowing there are risks.
Then there are those that don't see/understand the risks.
 
For those of you who may have skipped the link at the bottom of Chauncey's post, it is well worth taking a look at. Interesting statistics to say the least!
 
Most of the stats did not really surprise me. The one that I thought was most interesting was this: "The odds of dying from something other than a medical condition increased approximately 60% for each additional 10 metres of depth."

I would think that everyone already understands that depth increases risk, but 60% for each 10 meters of depth is pretty dramatic!
 
From P.96 of the paper: "The odds of dying from something other than a known medical event increased 1.05 (5%) for each metre of depth. In broader increments, for each 10 msw deeper when the incident commenced, the odds of dying from something other than a known medical event increased 64% (1.0510 = 1.64)."

I would view this risk measure solely as an isolated mathematical result of this study and not a reflection of diving activity in general. For example it does not say if this defined risk per meter accounts for age, gender, obesity, not dived up etc. if you are on CCR is this a bigger risk than on O.C? what about risk per meter in a cave as opposed to open water?

And then the experience factor, if I do twenty decompression dives over the course of a season every year for 10 years, does this risk accumulate or does it reset each season? Or does this experience as other studies argue, act as an inhibiting factor towards DCI, Klingsman et al, 2008 - https://www.uhms.org/images/DCS-and-AGE-Journal-Watch/klingmann_dcs_in_rec_divers.pdf

Cathal
 
Randy Thornton said:
Most of the stats did not really surprise me. The one that I thought was most interesting was this: "The odds of dying from something other than a medical condition increased approximately 60% for each additional 10 metres of depth."

I would think that everyone already understands that depth increases risk, but 60% for each 10 meters of depth is pretty dramatic!
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60% of not much is still not much.
 
You can read into it other ways as well. With a little over half the deaths from a "medical event", and with as rare as those are in a day to day world. I have less of a chance of dying from a diving error then I do from just having a regular medical event. Makes it sound pretty safe to me.
 
We all have a Personal Safety Culture, We are making everything secure like safety on data security, safety on car manufacturing safety on business we are running a towing company of NYC Roadside Assistance Services, even we more, care about the safety of everything, this must be the part of our life.
 
If I ever need a tow in NYC, I know who NOT to call. For that line of work you need to take risks to get the job done.
For qualifiers, I have driven a tow truck. But not in NYC. But I have driven in NYC, come to think of it the only thing I have ever driven in NYC are taxi cabs.

For a first post, pretty poor choice of where to place it. So this thread is what pops up when you google "spamming personal safety culture"?
 
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