Regulations, checklist for having fun!

Tell me what I can’t do so I know what to do?

Charlie Wallbridge and I were at a water park along dozens of other paddlesports people. Charlie, if you don’t know him, is the guru, the expert, the man, on paddlesports safety. As a group of us climbed the stairs to a ride, there was a long list of things you could not do. Each time we climbed we checked off the list so that by the last time we had done everything we weren’t supposed to do.

I remember the time well. At the bottom in the pool after another disastrous and fantastic time I yelled “help someone save me; I’m drowning”. Charlie, I think yelled back “save yourself; I’m drowning too!” Things got worse because I was laughing so hard, with my head underwater and people, floats and who knows what else pushing me down again.

As soon as I got to the surface and got out, we all went back up and did it again.

The regulations were great; they insured we almost died and had a great time. Several of the things on the list I would have never thought of doing but with the help of a risk manager we had a new way of getting hurt!

This memory flashed back after I read this article and watched a video. See ‘Zorbing’ Death Brings Call For

Zorb 14 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Safety Rules; Fatal Ride Captured On Video. Two Russians were at a ski area. They climbed into a Zorb and rolled down the hill. One man died by the end of the ride.

A Zorb is a great big plastic ball that you climb into. It rolls on snow or water or whatever, and you bounce around on the inside.

The article stated that because of the one death, there was a new call for a “global code of safe operations to try to stamp out cowboy operators.”

Those regulations will just become a “to do” list.

Think

1.   Why is it your job to tell me how to have fun? Warn me that having fun or doing stupid things will hurt me (tobacco and beer) but be real. Tobacco leads to impotency, yet people start to smoke to look cool and get laid. Go figure?

2.   Create a list of what not to do, and you have a list of things to do. Be smart when you create a list. Think about who actually reads them. (Teenagers looking for rules to break and risk managers.) Why write something and post it if no one is going to read it anyway. Purely for the liability protection?

3.   If rules worked traffic tickets would be in a museum rather than a source of income all cities in the US.

4.   No amount of writing, rules, regulations or laws are going to overcome a lack of common sense (from some perspectives) or a desire to have a good time (from other perspectives.)

Besides, I believe Darwin was right, and maybe we can learn something from every death……

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