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Buzzard Droppings March 2008
Text Box: What is this thing called SAFETY? We hear about it all the time in all sorts of places. Highway Safety, Gun Safety, and just about anything else you can think of that people are involved in. The dictionary defines SAFETY as: The state of being safe, freedom from the occurrence or risk of injury, danger, or loss. The quality of averting or not causing injury, danger or loss. A contrivance or device to prevent injury or avert danger. Some things that are relatively safe for one group may be an extremely dangerous situation for another group. Let’s take a gun lying on a table at a gun club meeting, even if it is loaded as in a live fire demonstration. With this group, the gun is assumed to be loaded. Anyone handling the gun is going to verify that it is in fact not loaded before handling it and that it is pointed in a safe direction. This same scenario with a bunch of unsupervised untrained 10 year old kids is a really, really bad situation. It is not that the gun is more dangerous. It is that one group has a healthy respect and training to know that the gun is potentially dangerous and the other group lacks that training. The same thing goes for us. At the field, we know that running engines is a dangerous thing and we know how to respect it and use it in a safe manner. If there are kids around, or even adults, they may not have the training to know that a running engine is very dangerous. After all, we can be rather casual around them. They cannot see the propeller, so what is going to hurt them. Most kids have learned that noise alone will not hurt them. This is just another example of different groups seeing things in a different way. So anytime you have a guest at the field, be sure to take a couple minutes and instruct them as to the dangers involved with our hobby (sport). Most of all, where to position themselves to stay out of danger. Our back safety fence is there for that purpose. UNTIL NEXT TIME, BE SAFE BE COURTEOUS Vince Bell, SO
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