If it doesn’t appear or feel safe, don’t do it.

2022  If it doesn’t appear or feel safe, don’t do it.

While we all have our own definition of “common sense”, I think there is a basic understanding of what this means.  There is an innate threshold for most folks about something that appears to be unsafe or you have a “feeling” that something is unsafe.  Common sense.

This applies to situations where maybe you can’t put your finger on just why or how something is unsafe, you just know or feel there is something hazardous about how you plan to carry out an  activity you’ve been told to do or are considering doing.

Follow your gut.   If it doesn’t appear or feel safe, don’t do it.  Just for the record, good safety training is way more valuable than mere instinct (your gut).  So get safety trained.  But don’t completely ignore your gut.