It just goes to show how important in certain jobs it is to constantly focus on safety.I worked on the flight line as a mechanic in the Air Force and had to consider the many obvious hazards on an active military flight line not to mention the heavy equipment we worked on that could easily kill you or remove a limb if you got lax.
Because of this every single shift every single day at the start and end of each shift a safety briefing was given the reason was to beat in everyone's head the idea of safety and of always being aware of the daily hazards and always following the regulations.
My guess is that a lot of emergency service agencies do not do this as much as they should be and unless the idea of safety is heavily promoted within an organization that takes part in any hazardous activity people that are part of that agency will become lax about things even if there are strict regulations if there is no reinforcement people will disobey the things that they feel hinder them to their and others detriment.
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