You can name all the safety certificates you want (which I am all aware off).
Thank you for your permission, I was really worried I would not get it.
A very respected, smart and highly intelligent person in science and engineering with over 50 years of experience, ones told me the following (unfortunately I'm not allowed to share his name in public)
I can invent imaginary friends too, I think I had one when I was 3.
"People always say safety first. Which is very incorrect and even dangerous.
It is thinking first (just follow basic science and engineering), than safety and third is sometimes just random bad luck"
Your imaginary friend has a problem with grammar. Too bad you can't translate WTF he is saying.
In fact, it is even proven that blindly following safety protocols can even lead to potentially more dangerous situations.
You should teach people the how and why instead.
Right, knowledge prevents people from making mistakes, always.... Is this you saying this or your imaginary friend?
With me a lot of people in the field are getting extremely sick of all the ridiculous so called 'safety rules'.
Yes, safety rules only exist for those not as perfect in every way and every action as you are. I can understand why you wouldn't care as you will never and have never made an error in anything. Everyone in the past who has ever been injured or killed has been because they, and they alone, did not have the knowledge of a procedure.
You can write pages about how many years of experience you have and what kind of qualifications or certificates etc, but it all simply comes down to some general science knowledge.
Wow, sorry everyone, I should never have brought up experience and training. These must never have anything to do with reality again.
Because it simply doesn't make sense why nobody cares about batteries, while it doesn't cost much to kill someone very easily with a 9V battery!
I know companies/countries where someone isn't even allowed to handle a bloody standard knife anymore
If people are to dumb to know what they are doing, they shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
In fact, in a lot of countries that's even how the law system work.
Really? How does someone know not to do something when they don't know not to do it? Certainly encouraging people to not do things they don't know sufficiently how to do properly is EXACTLY what I have been arguing. So you agree with me. You just said so. WTF are you on about then?
Which means that it's not important anymore if a product was 'unsafe', just by the fact that you were doing things you weren't qualified for cancels everything out.
Btw, with all the respect, but I don't know who brainwashed people that 'you need approved safety facilities' to test safety.
Than you simply have fallen in the big marketing trap.
Right, lets have people who don't know what they are doing or can't prove what they are doing is correct, let's have them do the testing. Wait, did you just say "If people are to dumb to know what they are doing, they shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
You forget the reason WHY these facilities exist, with the one and only reason: cover themselves in court.
Nothing more, nothing less.
OK, now that is just totally bat shit tin foil hat time. Nothing more, wow......
That doesn't mean that other ways aren't safe.
But other methods that are unknown to be safe should not be the default, idiotic reasoning.....
(in fact I know many so called 'safety regulations' in some countries that are absolutely forbidden in others)
Second to that, if safety is so important, why is it SO difficult and SO expensive to get these tests done, of to even get the basic documents?
These things should be open to the public.
Yeah yeah, people drive on the other side of the road in some places too, idiotic reasoning....
All of this doesn't mean that there are people out there that make these type of meters, review a lot of meters or just have a very good understanding what potential dangerous there are and how to tackle them or are just smart people with enough knowledge/resources to find that out.
These meters and safety tests are not done by unknown hyper smart aliens.
And people make mistakes, don't know everything, and forget certain details. That is why we have repeatable tests for safety that are replicated by different people who follow checklists. That is how human errors get caught.
So in fact, I would ENCOURAGE people to dig into this and share it to the public because in my opinion that's even your responsibility as an engineer/scientist.
And to add something extra for the people who have so "many experience in the field", maybe it would be better to help people out, explain it how it is done properly instead of kicking people shins.
If you can make the time and energy to rant, you can also use the same time and energy to be productive instead.
Talking about proving.......
Sorry everyone, I am being a non-productive world citizen by trying to educate. Forget all the rules everyone. I was wrong, past events, experience and the rules to save people from harm are all just smoke and mirrors and corporate lawyers. Follow the person who is tired of having to be safe. He must be right!