[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
AW: hospital contamination incident
A large chemical industry had the following (successful) safety philosophy:
- For every accident in which a person dies, 100 accidents happen whit
serious injuries, 10'000 accidents happen with minor injuries and 1'000'000
accidents happen with no injuries (sliding on a slippery floor).
- Whether an accidient or incident becomes serious is largely a stochastic
process.
- Reducing the number of deadly accidents was most successfully done by
reducing the 1'000'000 accidents without injuries.
Frits van Dorp
vandorp@nagra.ch
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: William V Lipton [SMTP:liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM]
> Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 9. Januar 2003 13:27
> An: Jerry Cohen
> Cc: BLHamrick@AOL.COM; Perrero@IDNS.STATE.IL.US;
> radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> Betreff: Re: hospital contamination incident
>
> 3. Whomever said, "Accidents happen, go on," had it 1/2 right. It should
> be,"Accidents happen, find out why, make sure the same accident doesn't
> happen again, go on."
>
> Bill Lipton
> liptonw@dteenergy.com
>
> Jerry Cohen wrote:
>
> The argument can (and has) been made that highly restrictive
> policies on handling of radioactive materials are needed to reflect the
> inordinately high levels of public concern (fears) toward radioactivity.
> On the other hand, I wonder if the restrictive regulations might not cause
> these concerns. Isn't it logical to assume that such extreme caution would
> not be required if the stuff were not so dangerous?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: BLHamrick@AOL.COM <mailto:BLHamrick@AOL.COM>
> To: liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM <mailto:liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM> ;
> Perrero@IDNS.STATE.IL.US <mailto:Perrero@IDNS.STATE.IL.US>
> Cc: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> <mailto:radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 7:16 PM
> Subject: Re: hospital contamination incident
> In a message dated 01/08/2003 10:55:51 AM Pacific Standard
> Time, liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM <mailto:liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM> writes:
>
>
************************************************************************
You are currently subscribed to the Radsafe mailing list. To unsubscribe,
send an e-mail to Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu Put the text "unsubscribe
radsafe" (no quote marks) in the body of the e-mail, with no subject line.
You can view the Radsafe archives at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/