New safety rules

[alwaysinjured]

A few thoughts on AI's latest rule suggestions (post 1325, a bit lengthy for me to quote here ;-) )
I've agreed with a lot of what AI has said but I'm not sure I agree with this latest suggestion.
I think both his suggestions (two systems for recording how many start and finish and a designated place of safety) go too far down the road of requiring a RO to take responsibility for the safety of the runner.

It may be that the legal system means it's not possible for RO to absolve themselves of responsibility for runner safety entirely but I think the requirements placed on RO by the rules should be the absolute bare minimum.

One of the great contradictions of the current draft of the safety rules is that they state that runners are primarily responsible for their own safety and then go on to list a whole host of measures that someone has to take to ensure runner safety.

I agree with your sentiments.

For a change I was coming at it from a different angle: asking whether there was any thing that could have made a difference to the last two mortalities, or in similar circumstances if they had survived longer? And those two ideas might have helped.

I read the new rules with dismay. Whilst they allow a lot more blame and finger pointing, and they are very good @rse covering for FRA, I could not and cannot see how they improve safety, whilst giving RO many more problems. The couple of ideas above may at least have a chance with events similar to previous fatalities.

Did you read that train incident link? You can have an exemplary life, yet one five second screw up and you end in jail. We must try to help RO avoid a similar fate. The true moral of the story is become a lawyer where you have no responsibility for life, or anything else other than sending eye watering invoices out on time. Then you can spend your life condemning those who do have responsibility, armed with perfect 20/20 hindsight, just because they are fallible, an inevitable human trait. Not for me. I could not check my morals in at the door, or indulge in anything quite so heinous.