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What Is Safe?
Sep. 23rd, 2007 01:42 pmSadly, the word "safe" has had a hard run of misuse. Activities or locations have been deemed either "safe" or not based on a snap judgment, a quick appraisal, need for it to be either.
Folks, "safe" is not an either/or proposition. Like a rainbow and the myriad of colors banded in the spectra, safety constitutes an irreducible continuum of possibility ranging from instantly fatal to mostly harmless.
( Take, for examples, sex and tunnels. )
Post Script: I was going to share some of the info cited in my bus tunnel training manual, but there's this silly reminder on the bottom of each page:
Don't worry, I didn't share anything in my LJ that a terrorist could use . . . unless he wanted to sue The Agency!
Folks, "safe" is not an either/or proposition. Like a rainbow and the myriad of colors banded in the spectra, safety constitutes an irreducible continuum of possibility ranging from instantly fatal to mostly harmless.
( Take, for examples, sex and tunnels. )
Post Script: I was going to share some of the info cited in my bus tunnel training manual, but there's this silly reminder on the bottom of each page:
This document and other records, including data specifically associated with this document, relate to unique and specific vulnerability assessments and/or deployment plans in the event of CRIMINAL TERRORISM. This document and other records are protected by the 2002 Public Disclosure Act amendments, Section . . . . , and as such they must be treated as confidential records.
Don't worry, I didn't share anything in my LJ that a terrorist could use . . . unless he wanted to sue The Agency!