My Fitness Edge

If we know of accidents, we usually say that it is by bad fate that the victims encounter the same. We usually assume that accidents are a consequence of misfortune.

What we usually omit is that, by looking closely into these cases, many of them are really foreseeable and preventable, therefore could not be taken as misfortune, in the strictest sense.

For example, we know that the overloading of an electrical circuit will constitute a fire hazard. Therefore, if a fire happens as we overload a circuit, we are aware that it is not an accident but a an effect of our knowing disregard of safety guidelines.

An intoxicated motorist who crashes his vehicle cannot take the case as bad luck as this outcome is possible to occur due to his folly to alcohol, which could definitely be avoided, he being cognizant of his status and his chore. As it is, he might not even heed signs of road safety.

At the work sites, in the house, or on the road, many similar situations could be illustrated to show that what we called bad lucks are really products of utter negligence of safety and health signs and safety procedures.

To avoid needless injuries, material destruction, or even death, we must be responsible enough and undertake the required steps to prevent these so-called accidents from happening to ourselves and to others people.

For a few, there may be some element of luck in them, e.g., near misses or little injuries. Nonetheless, these lucks cannot be relied upon. Those near misses might just be a fraction of second away from razing your house or a few centimeters away from cutting your fingers or falling on a canal.

To state it simply, the next time, we might not be as fortunate.

Therefore, trying to observe safety programs and obeying safety signages will keep most of these accidents from occurring, and we can save a lot of people from harms or deaths or save properties from destructions, because, as we all know, accidents are predictable if we are careful.