The Thing About Risks

It's worth a moment or two of pondering.....as of 2017....93-percent of all work-place deaths....are accomplished by men.  ONLY 7-percent are women.

I sat and read over this report and analysis.

Growing up on the farm in Alabama....by age fourteen, I'd come to grasp the implications of threats and potential harm.  If you standing in a cattle-chute and a 600 pound steer has turned around in some moment of panic...you have basically two seconds to assess the situation, grab the side of the rails...to hang on and just hope things work out fine.

By age 18, I'd probably seen at least a dozen potential situations where death was just seconds away.  Some involved mechanical things....some involved walking into high grass with snake potential....some involved cattle with chaos on their mind. 

Over the next twenty-two years in the Air Force?  There's probably another twenty-odd occasions that I came fairly close on the risk-scale. 

The thing about it....guys tend to accept risk more than women.  You could present the same opportunities to a hundred women, and a great majority would just look at things, and say 'no'.....this has no balanced return value for the risk involved. 

Could we restructure women, while they were six years old....to view risks as a positive thing?  Maybe.  Course, we could go the other way, and instill a woman's view of reduced risk on guys, and stand back to see if guys just refuse to take risks?

It's something that you kinda wonder about.....should we even attempt to change things or remove risks in general?