I started a new topic just about risk. It is pretty cool new thread so far. I wanted to put once last post on this one. Rad-Gal, if you look at my new topic, your cigarette analogy plays right into my automobile analogy in my soap boxing on the initial post.
Rad Ghost, yes I can relate to your humor. I once worked at a plant where the motto for the outage that we saw on what were then modern signs saying: "We shall not proceed in the face of uncertainty." After a 3 month outage was into it's 12th month, we all knew that they should cut off the second half and just have it say "We shall not proceed." Not that I was complaining, because I liked the job. A job like that today would make everyone drool!
It was frustrating to setup a job and have it canceled because procedure steps were out of order. They have fixed that all now and jobs are shorter.
My new post has people talking about the consequences of that.
I wanted to have people talk only about risks of residual radioactivity for remediation sites under MARRSIM, but there are intelligent remarks from people about the risks from working at operating nuclear facilities.
I know these risks, because I recently worked at one, and people were complaining! I was OK, because I was yard dog, but people in the BRT were complaining.
I say let us all continue this on my new post and see what everyone says. I like this site very much, but the subject can change very fast on a particular post, especially when it get emotionally hot.
Check out the new thread, and let us go from there. The old thread went a different direction from the original question, and for a person to have to dig through 7 pages of posts to try to figure out what the original question was about, is too much to ask. The whole thing went into risk and what we all think about risk. Engineers calculate risk and HP technicians take them every day and they try to protect everyone form those risks.
Let's all go there for risk posts.
http://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php/topic,5707.0.html For background issues, let's stay here. For risk and RESRAD, let's use my new thread.
Just a suggestion from an IT/HP dude.