Public Safety. 03/14/2010
 Me ~ Happily protected by the safety railing at lookouts and appreciative that there is public safety protection in place The Lookout, for the cautious, like me. The Jaws of Death, for the Barrier, Jumpers. Reg and I both used to teach, occupational, health and safety. I also, had the fun of having a hyperactive child and a friend on face book tonight reminded me, of one of her adventures where at the age of eight she climbed on to the top of the protective wall of a bridge and proceeded to walk, along the top edge, of it. Because of this, I have a keen interest in public safety issues.  Today, when I went to view the balconies lookout, I saw a ‘idiot’, climb over the guard rail and walk out on to the rock formation. called the jaws of death, to show off, for a photo shoot. I took a quick photo to illustrate the danger, to illustrate my point about public safety, but it left me shuddering. We are all capable of slipping, we don’t plan these things, at least let’s not position ourselves a thousand meters high when we do slip. These actions, those of children experimenting and those of adults showing off are the sorts of behaviours that public safety officials have to try to foresee and strive to prevent accidents occurring. Health and Safety is now taught at university level, and people with the qualifications of public safety degrees,will always find interesting employment as long as some people just seem to need to be protected from themselves. Lewis University in the US, is an accredited, non-profit university, that offers, online degrees in Master of Science in Public Safety Administration they have International, students, on campus, and many Australian organisations involved in public safety, like our Country fire Authority for instance, do exchange education with Australians studying in the Us and some US. fire fighters studying in Australia. In this way, all countries can stay aware of the best safety information available  Comments Comments are closed. |
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