Thursday, April 2, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Whether you are choosing
Whether you are choosing your transport via car, train, or airplane there is a growing need to remember that there are safety issues that need to be addressed and that you are part of the overall safety of the entire transport situation. In the event of an emergency, your response can either help or hinder the process of safe transport. The last time I was in an airplane the flight attendant launched into her usual rhetoric regarding the safety operations of the plane. Since I fly regularly, I knew the basic regimen by heart, but I also noticed that most people on the plane didn’t even have enough consideration to even pretend that they were listening. In fact, most people didn’t even look up or acknowledge that the safety lesson was beginning.While we might be able to recite some of the rules of safe transport even if we have never flown before, we still need the reminder in case we are not so fortunate to land safely as we expect to. Perhaps it is just the fear that paying attention to the direction of the safe transport directions might encourage a disaster somehow but we all need to hear the rules over and over again in case we are asked to respond in a situation. The more we hear the guidelines for safe transport the less likely we are to freeze should our help actually be needed during a trip. Safe transport requires everyone’s cooperation, even those who believe they already know the drill