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Today: Is it worth giving up some of your safety to go extra places? Is there a time it’s okay and a time it is not? How can you figure out the difference?
In this podcast I’ll tell you how to do a risk assessment on your upcoming activity and let you make an informed decision on if you should or should not go.
My point: Make an actual decision about the risk you will except and the ones you won’t. Don’t let someone else make the decision for you!
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Outline:
March on Richmond VA
- Would have liked to go
- I thought there was going to be violence resulting in multiple injuries and one death (glad to be wrong)
- Sometimes a risk of death or serious bodily injury is worth it
Do a Risk Assessment on your Life’s Activities
- Doing anything as well as nothing can get you killed
- Risk associated with every activity (including taking a shower)
- Electricity in your house can kill you; When is the last time you thought about that?
- Working overseas as a security specialist doing base security commanders wanted zero injuries of their soldiers and wanted to make me responsible for anyone getting hurt
- Simple Risk vs Reward
- Army:
- Identify Hazards
- Assess the Hazards
- Develop Controls and Make Risk Decisions
- Implement Controls
- Supervise
- Marine Corps adopted the same thing and it was impossible on paper
- Simpler Version
- What’s the extra risks associated with this event/activity/action?
- What’s the probability that it will happen to me or affect me?
- Is it worth the risk?
- How can I reasonably mitigate the risks?
- Examples:
- Richmond March
- Driving During Adverse Conditions
- Going to new locations
- My December California Trip
Thoughts on Richmond
- Glad nothing serious happened and no on got hurt. Glad it didn’t spark something bigger
- Can’t stop people from being afraid of pictures and the media
- Only control myself and my reactions
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Stay Safe,
Ben