Edward J. Eckert wrote: > The talk is centered around safety because this is a safety > discussion group.
> Answering to many threads recently, I must comment on your > statement: >> Safety specs are construction and performance. >> They tell you what to do. No secret there." > IMHO, with any luck and a lot of work, safety standards in the > future will not dictate construction and will therefore allow > real engineers to solve real problems by using their minds > instead of being trained (as opposed to being educated) to do > things which have been done blindly for years. > And thus you have my half of the comments I will submit to this > group this year. Please keep up the discussions - this forum > may be THE BEST TOOL TO EDUCATE SAFETY PROFESSIONALS! > I strongly agree with your statement about keeping it in the box. > Regards, > Ed Eckert, Nortel > "Opinions here are the only things that I alone own; my wife owns the > rest and she is working on my opinions" Well, my apoligies. I'm fairly new here and have never read the charter. My fault. From the groups title "emc", I was thinking in a different line of thought. In that case, since undergrade courses do prepare one for EIT and PE, the teaching is already in place. At least for safety. It's only a matter of ethics after that. I think someone already alluded to that. But, I would submit that reinventing the wheel can get old. And I did not intend to give the impression that since the standard already gives construction specs that everything was a "no brainer". If that was the interpretation, that certainly was not my intent. My intent is more in lines with the fact that although, say, the NEC specifies alot itself, it certainly isn't a "no brainer". Regards, Doug ************************************************************ ------------------------------------------------------------ The comments and opinions stated herein are mine alone, and do not reflect those of my employer. ------------------------------------------------------------ ************************************************************
