It’s all about safety!

livvy wrote: Peter Fenwick wrote: And so the blame culture we live in starts to go crazy....... We are more and more turning into a society where mistakes are not allowed to be made. Pretty soon no one will become a nurse or a doctor becaues as soon as they make a mistake, which they will at least once in their careers, they will end up in prison. The same goes for driving. People die on the roads. It's a sad but it's true. The sooner this society learns that there is little to be gained from constantly searching for someone to blame for each and every thing the better. Where already starting to go down the line of sueing the government when service men die in iraq. You can be sued by your post man if he slips on your path and breaks his leg, even if he's delivering unsolicited junk mail. If your in the car with a friend and he crashes you can sue his insurance company for compensation. I was asked why i didn't join the union at work. Because I don't see any point I said. But they will represent you should you wish to take the company to court. imagine it's icey and you slip on the ground next to the cooling tower, the union will cover the cost of sueing the company. But if I slip up outside when it's icey it just one of those things, it's life, accidents happen!! It's insane, a aspect to modern life that I really don't like and this change to the road safety bill is just another example of the same thing. For blame read responsibility for one's actions & how they affect others. Some (like doctors & nurses) can at least often claim a noble cause whilst they make mistakes, most drivers can't. It's lazyness in what they do, how they seek to improve themselves & how they regulate their own behaviour/attitudes towards driving. Their driving is often about personal gain & gratification, not selfless. When we go on a plane or a train we entrust the pilot or driver to operate within the rules for our safe passage, but we as drivers don't do the same for our fellow road users. It's self, self, self, me, me, me. My needs matter nothing else.

In some cases you are right. However what you are suggesting is that it is possible never to make a mistake again. All we have to do is stop being lazy and selfish. With all due respect this is rubbish. No matrter how carefull and considerate we are we will always make some mistakes. To err is human, and to demonstarate this fact companies, when setting out health and safey policies and procedures, have to take into account that people inherently make mistakes and occaisionally break the rules. And in this case I'm not talking about breaking the rules, I'm talking about a good old honest to god mistake. If you have never made a mistake then you are in a position to critisise. If you have then I'm afraid your not.

livvy wrote: The very near future with the Road safety Bill means changes including:- * a new offence of bad driving where death results. (to address people's concerns of where drivers just making a "mistake" kill others & say but I didn't mean it.)

And so the blame culture we live in starts to go crazy.......

We are more and more turning into a society where mistakes are not allowed to be made. Pretty soon no one will become a nurse or a doctor becaues as soon as they make a mistake, which they will at least once in their careers, they will end up in prison. The same goes for driving. People die on the roads. It's a sad but it's true. The sooner this society learns that there is little to be gained from constantly searching for someone to blame for each and every thing the better. Where already starting to go down the line of sueing the government when service men die in iraq. You can be sued by your post man if he slips on your path and breaks his leg, even if he's delivering unsolicited junk mail. If your in the car with a friend and he crashes you can sue his insurance company for compensation. I was asked why i didn't join the union at work. Because I don't see any point I said. But they will represent you should you wish to take the company to court. imagine it's icey and you slip on the ground next to the cooling tower, the union will cover the cost of sueing the company. But if I slip up outside when it's icey it just one of those things, it's life, accidents happen!! It's insane, a aspect to modern life that I really don't like and this change to the road safety bill is just another example of the same thing.