Originally Posted By: hikermor
Rational risk assessment is very interesting, but can anyone cite a real life instance where it made a difference?


Very wide questions, which can be applied in a lot of things.

Examples:
Firefighter hears a person trapped in a house fire. Decision is made to breach a wall using a chainsaw. Do you take the time to strap on your chainsaw chaps. If you do you are safer, but the time delay means that person might be dead when you reach him. Result: Person was saved, but the firefighter slipped and the chainsaw damaged his leg permenantly.

But anothter example could be drive or not to drive in bad wheather or anything else.

Risk assesments is a very inaccurate tool and there can be many pro's and con's to do or not to do something.
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