I think paragraph 2 and 3 are separate things. Of course procedures can’t cover every variable. IF you had a procedure for putting your dog in the car, it might not help if a different person put the dog in the car.
However, in most cases where you have procedures, if there is a failure it is because the procedures are not followed.
Too many people don’t have procedures, and I fault them for it. When I hear of something like this, I would love to talk to the people to find out what their procedure was that they put in place to prevent it — if they had one, I wouldn’t fault them so much if somehow it didn’t work.
However, if you gave me a procedure for something, I could tell you what the flaws were and how to make it better.
I once ran my car into a pole in a parking lot, at about 20 mph (kind of a fun thing to do, if you like explosive seat belt bruises). Now, if you had told me before that I could do that, I would have told you it couldn’t happen.
BUT, since that happened, I changed my procedure. I never drive across parking spaces anymore, I only drive in the driving sections. If i do pull through, it is a special case, and I do it slowly, and with keen awareness that I need to watch for things.
If I had put that procedure in place earlier, I would never have run into a pole in a parking lot.
“I once ran my car into a pole in a parking lot, at about 20 mph (kind of a fun thing to do, if you like explosive seat belt bruises). Now, if you had told me before that I could do that, I would have told you it couldn’t happen.
BUT, since that happened, I changed my procedure. I never drive across parking spaces anymore, I only drive in the driving sections. If i do pull through, it is a special case, and I do it slowly, and with keen awareness that I need to watch for things.
If I had put that procedure in place earlier, I would never have run into a pole in a parking lot.”
I agree but some have posted in this thread that they are “incapable of” leaving thier dog or infant in a car because they are not careless and are not stupid. In their minds it simply can’t happen to them, which is absolutely false.