From: Bobby Joe Pendleton (bjpendleton@charter.net)
Date: Sat Feb 14 2004 - 06:32:07 PST
if you ever roll over a jeep, you better hope you are thrown clear
----- Original Message -----
From: "noel shelley" <noel@shelley1722.freeserve.co.uk>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 5:53 AM
Subject: [MV] ROLL CAGES AND RISK FACTORS
> It`s Me again ,
> I was not suggesting that being thrown out was
safer
> than staying with a "safe" vehicle , merely that to be trapped in a poorly
> designed cage could increase the hazard !
> The best that most Commercials manage is to fall on there sides , seldom
do
> they invert , their Cof G is too low and sides too high.
>
> Your best bet is a good TIGHT seat belt , full harness if you wish .
>
> Firstly identify the Hazard .
> Second ,what is the Risk of the Hazard causing danger .
> IF the risk factor is low , go back to sleep , you have carried out your
> risk assessment , you are reasonably Safe .
>
> Noel
> PS
> REF risk assessment , a guy dies of CO poisoning in an electrically heated
> house , HOW ?{this is not a joke , the claim failed in court as the judge
> deemed the risk factor so low because the hazard could not have been
> foreseen }
>
>
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