Safety: Can You Have Too Much of a Good Thing? » SafetySmart

Safety: Can You Have Too Much of a Good Thing? » SafetySmart

The article is about the experience of Australian psychologist during his interaction with employees of a corporation. Some opined that too much safety (directives, guidelines, procedures, initiatives, etc) will lead to safety saturation and employees may try to take short cuts like those in traffic jams where motorists try to ignore signals out of frustration of feeling obstructed, that they are unable to make move, and so on.
How much is too much is a debatable point and requires efforts of all heads in important positions along and CEO of the organization, I feel, should be biased towards safety rules and regulations, while taking a final call for implementation of safety systems, so arrived.
Being a safety professional, I am unable to agree with the statement that too much safety (is there really such a thing) works against safety culture. But, I should be open to ideas and lack of knowledge or understanding  should not make me not to listen to ideas.

Disaster - after checks before reuse

There is a good article on what should be done before using a facility after disaster occurs.The article quotes about list of safety tips from the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) that should be considered following a disaster:
One should be more cautious and check twice all systems in place for using a facility involved in a disaster than a new facility as one does not know about the extent of damage and condition of building, services, equipment, piping, safety systems, etc. Outwardly, building may appear in good condition, but not actually. It is like entering a devil's cave. We have to do tests like hammer test, ultrasonic tests, etc to know about invisible cracks and disintegration inside the columns and beams.