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- From: Mark.Simpson@f85.n282.z1.fidonet.org (Mark Simpson)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: Safety Principles...
- Message-ID: <722393879.AA21931@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:00:00 -0800
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
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- I found this in an EMS newsletter:
-
- SAFETY PRINCIPLES YOU CAN LIVE BY:
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- 1. Find out where you're going -- THEN roll.
-
- 2. It doesn't do any good to get halfway there really fast.
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- 3. Your siren is something people loan you so you can ask for
- the right of way. Sometimes they don't hear it; sometimes
- they say no.
-
- 4. If rescue vehicles were race cars, they wouldn't look so
- funny.
-
- 5. It's not YOUR emergency. It's somebody else's emergency.
- You're going to get there as soon as it's safe, then
- you're going to do your very best to help. That might not
- be good enough, and if it's not, you still did your best.
-
- 6. Check it -- don't just gamble on it. Your equipment
- doesn't work and probably isn't there -- unless you check
- it and prove otherwise.
-
- 7. SAFETY supersedes the importance of everything that will
- happen on this responce.
-
- 8. Before you run a red light, STOP. Let the other cars do
- what they're going to do. Then proceed, and don't get mad.
- If people mess with you, they'll probably go to hell
- anyway.
-
- 9. All equipment fails at some time. This equipment could
- fail this time.
-
- 10. Close calls are crashes that don't happen because you're
- lucky. If you have a lot of close calls, there is
- something wrong with your driving.
-
- This was taken from the "CoResponder", a newsletter for western
- Wisconsin CFR & EMS personnel. Mailing address:
-
- Coulee Region First Responder Assoc.
- PO Box 143
- Holmen WI 54636
-
- -Mark
-
- * SLMR 2.1a * Once in a while, I screw up and do something right.
-
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- * Origin: Freezing Point Systems - Wildcat ALPHA - {HST DS}(1:282/85)
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