How safe are our habits?
Safety blunders come out of the habits we develop over time. We cannot afford to ignore safety even with our habits. And our health habits do not fall short in this either.
I recently read of a top person in the Health and Safety sector, with several years of experience, defying a safe system recently. The result was substantial damage to his car.
The Health and Safety worker was used to the sensor alarm of his long car being set off at a particular location whenever he parked his car. Ignoring the alarm as he got back to the low hedge pushing back to it slowly. What he did not take into account was a road sign much higher up and in parallel with the hedge. His rear window was completely smashed as a result.
I remember reading many years ago of how false alarms had lulled people into complacency when the real dangers came on the scene.
As a child, I learnt folk tales around the same issue with stories such as “the boy that cried wolf”. Not taking the importance of sincerity with matters concerning safety no one took him seriously when the real danger came.
When I was learning to drive, I was taught to stop at give-way lines regardless of traffic conditions. This was meant to train the real me, my spirit, on the importance of the spirit of the rules of the road. Our observation of events and conditions can never be perfect.
When I started taking short cuts by seeing what I could get away with on the road with the excuse that there was no other traffic on the road, my driving skills deteriorated.
Without realising this, I soon for the first time in a long time started getting motoring convictions.
US Airways Airbus A320 crash landed in the Hudson River on the 15th January 2009. Crash investigation reports [Source: National Transportation Safety Board] reveals that only 16% of the passengers had watched the safety demonstration, only 8% read the safety card, and only 1% donned life jackets beneath their seats. Fortunately all 155 passengers on board survived. However, over 19% injured their heads on impact.
The moral of my missive is – when we start taking rules for granted because we are familiar with them we soon fall into trouble. We don’t realise that we have begun to despise the very things we once held in high esteem. This we must be zealous guard our habits safely, even habits to do with our mental health. We must form good habits to minimise stress, do things that minimise risks of getting ill and so on.
As with everything, keep safe with your mental health!
Which habits have you gradually formed that unwittingly got you into trouble? Please comment and share on your social media.
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It’s not necessary for habits to occur simply once a day or at a specific hour. People are less likely to suffer from slips, trips, and falls if you clean up their workspace after each task. So, to keep our health in the appropriate way, use some form of natural supplements intake like gummies!! – Nidra Nutrition
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