These are college students, not kindergartners. This girl was senior and obviously used this lathe without incident many times before. Being along, she obviously got careless, didn’t tie her hair back or use a hair net, and had a fatal accident. People need to start assigning blame to who’s really at fault. Here it wasn’t the college or the machine; it was the operator.
Of course it was her fault, but that’s not the point. The point is that had the machine had certain additional safeguards, her death may have been prevented. You know, you have to expect that people will be careless and that’s why you build in safety mechanisms, like kill switches. They’re not all built in to prevent accidents, some are built in to prevent accidents from becoming lethal.
It’s no different than seatbelts. They are designed to save lives “after” or “during” an accident, not to prevent an accident. Accidents happen, and they are the fault of people for teh most part, but they don’t have to result in death if we adopt some common sense safety rules.
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These are college students, not kindergartners. This girl was senior and obviously used this lathe without incident many times before. Being along, she obviously got careless, didn’t tie her hair back or use a hair net, and had a fatal accident. People need to start assigning blame to who’s really at fault. Here it wasn’t the college or the machine; it was the operator.
Of course it was her fault, but that’s not the point. The point is that had the machine had certain additional safeguards, her death may have been prevented. You know, you have to expect that people will be careless and that’s why you build in safety mechanisms, like kill switches. They’re not all built in to prevent accidents, some are built in to prevent accidents from becoming lethal.
It’s no different than seatbelts. They are designed to save lives “after” or “during” an accident, not to prevent an accident. Accidents happen, and they are the fault of people for teh most part, but they don’t have to result in death if we adopt some common sense safety rules.