No matter what you do, there will always be things beyond your control. This accident happened last Friday and word of it reached our office by Saturday. You won't find details in the article but, from what people have said, it was a freak accident. However, how the accident came to pass underscores how important all the little things are because eventually they turn into something very big.
Some people like to say that life is random (and others don't). I like to say that life is statistical in nature. We can increase and decrease our odds of having various events happen to us, but we can never guarantee a 1 or 0. When it comes to safety in the field, we can take all the reasonable steps possible to prevent an accident and hope nothing unreasonable happens.
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How irony was it that on your Jan. 23 Blog, you wrote about industrial safety in general and Schlumberger in particular. Ten days later something like this happened. My heart goes out to the family for such an unfortunate and untimely death.
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