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It’s real though. When you’re making procedures “do the obvious thing” has to be the first step and putting it in there will prevent so many mistakes. Checklists work. Trusting people to do the obvious reasonable thing in repetitive or stressful situations does not.

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Obligatory call out to "The Checklist Manifesto"

http://atulgawande.com/book/the-checklist-manifesto/

Thanks for this, I ended up down the rabbit hole of David Lee Roth and no brown M&M's backstage which is both an amusing story a) about how the media industry works and also b) of putting something seemingly innocuous but easily verifiable in the middle of a long checklist as an early warning sign of a process not having been followed properly, which obviously has applications anywhere something critical is being done.

Hopefully the surgeon insights in the book are equally valuable.

https://rockcelebrities.net/the-reason-behind-david-lee-roth...

Seat belt use* is the brown M&M of the US fire service community. If you don't see regular seat belt use in your local fire department, you should find out why. It typically means the company officers just aren't doing their job. If your department -

A. Wears seat belts; B. Chocks the wheels religiously; C. Checks if the door is locked before breach; D. Positions apparatus for, but does not initiate water supply properly at all credible alarms; they're going after some really pernicious problems, typically driven by sheer laziness, in the fire service.

*FFs, yes ice rescue, I know, edge case.

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