Category: Safety

Before you can be dangerous to your enemies, you must be safe to your friends. Otherwise, you can end up doing the enemy’s work for them. Safety is best achieved, as my friend “Slim” Pickens observed, through competence. Safety does not happen by osmosis. It must be learned, and then practiced HANDS ON, until it becomes habitual. Safety does not reside in mechanical devices. Real safety resides between the ears. This information can help you be a safer operator.