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 Reach>Talent 06 Nov 2013
As the title "What is the worst outcome of any incident?".

I have to fill out a risk assessment and I am having trouble with this one; the sacking of the Great Library of Alexandria was pretty bad and the Holocaust is generally accepted as a bad thing but what is the worst thing ever? The extinction of the Dodo was pretty bad for Dodos but not that bad in the grand scheme of things.
Wiley Coyote2 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent: we get sued?
 Rampikino 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:

Break your risk down into categories that apply, then do an assessment against each risk.

For example, you may have "Regulatory Risk" and you may have a scale of 1-5.

1 would be no or very little risk of breaching any regulations
2 would be small risk of breaching any regulations
...
5 would be - we might go to jail

etc
OP Reach>Talent 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Wiley Coyote:
Well you see if they said "What is the worst outcome of any incident directly related to the piece of equipment that you are conducting this risk assessment on?". Then the answer is "Some idiot kills themselves with it despite following my SOP, the CEO gets jailed and I have to fill out a lot of paperwork" but that isn't he question they asked!
 drolex 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent: Filling out forms
 MG 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent: Earth collides with massive asteroid wiping out all life would be pretty bad from our perspective. If you are thinking big, then I suppose our local galaxy cluster getting swallowed a truly massive black hole.
KevinD 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:

Incident:the big bang
worse outcome: coming into existence to fill out risk assessments.
In reply to Reach>Talent:

An inability to learn from it?
Wiley Coyote2 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:
Refuse to to fill out risk assessments because of danger of:-
1) Paper cuts (old tech)
2) Electric shocks (newer tech)
 Tom Last 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:

Are these realised or potential outcomes Mike?

Realised: I'd go for my mate not bothering to use his backstage tickets to see Nirvana at the Astoria in 1991 because he'd had a row with his (ultimately) short-term girlfriend.

Potential: Vacuum metastability event.
 felt 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:

Death, death, death all the way down.
abseil 06 Nov 2013
In reply to felt:
>
> Death, death, death all the way down.

I think death's overrated as a bad outcome.

My vote: breakdown of all matter in the universe.
OP Reach>Talent 06 Nov 2013
In reply to abseil:
My vote: breakdown of all matter in the universe.

But at that point I wouldn't have any paperwork to fill out, also can you really appreciate the badness if it happens all at once? ie. I'd say being run over by a steam roller is probably worse than being run over by an intercity 125 as you've got a chance to experience it?
 felt 06 Nov 2013
In reply to abseil:

If generously interpreted, in a manner of speaking, that's death of a sort. As are all bad outcomes.
 Neil Henson 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent: The wording I would use for the situation you describe would be "Multiple fatalaties"
 Choss 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:

An eternal Tory govt?
 Trangia 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Choss:
> (In reply to mkean)
>
> An eternal Tory govt?

Might be interesting as in the long term everyone would become rich, with the select being even richer.

abseil 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:
> (In reply to abseil)
> My vote: breakdown of all matter in the universe.
>
> But at that point I wouldn't have any paperwork to fill out...

OK, and sorry about that. Here are 2 more:
1. World War II.
- and contemporary,
2. Worldwide nuclear war.
 Choss 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:

Another thread about did Jesus actually exist?
abseil 06 Nov 2013
In reply to felt:
> (In reply to abseil)
>
> If generously interpreted, in a manner of speaking, that's death of a sort. As are all bad outcomes.

Yes, good point. Though I think my examples contrast death of one individual, vs breakdown of all matter, death of everyone?

(Actually I think I don't get this thread. Apologies. I am fairly thick...)
FiendishMcButton 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:

Bolts on grit?
 Choss 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:

Forgetting to put out a full rubbish bin now that collections are fortnightly?
 Bulls Crack 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Choss:
> (In reply to mkean)
>
> An eternal Tory govt?

I'd take the Black Hole every time - there might be a chance of an alternative then!
 MJ 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:

As the title "What is the worst outcome of any incident?".

Sleeping in the wet patch.

 Choss 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:

Catching a scaggy bit of fingernail on an item of clothing. Dont half hurt!
 Choss 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:

Michael Bay Making another film?
 ThunderCat 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Choss:

"Standing on an upturned plug in bare feet"

There is not a single event that is worse than this.
 Choss 06 Nov 2013
In reply to ThunderCat:
> (In reply to Choss)
>
> "Standing on an upturned plug in bare feet"
>
> There is not a single event that is worse than this.

Or Lego.

OP Reach>Talent 06 Nov 2013
In reply to ThunderCat:
"Standing on an upturned plug in bare feet"
There is not a single event that is worse than this.


I've done this and can confirm that there is something worse:

Stepping off a ladder whilst barefoot (don't ask why I was climbing a ladder barefoot) and discovering that you are A) not as close to the ground as you thought and B) above a rack of amplifiers built by someone who thought that unfinished metal edges looked cool. This is worse than stepping on a plug as firstly I lost a lot of blood and couldn't walk properly for several weeks and secondly you get no sympathy when you explain that you fell off a ladder barefoot and stood on an amplifier.



 Trangia 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:

"Worst outcome" for whom?
 ThunderCat 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:
> (In reply to ThunderCat)
> "Standing on an upturned plug in bare feet"
> There is not a single event that is worse than this.
>
> I've done this and can confirm that there is something worse:
>
> Stepping off a ladder whilst barefoot (don't ask why I was climbing a ladder barefoot) and discovering that you are A) not as close to the ground as you thought and B) above a rack of amplifiers built by someone who thought that unfinished metal edges looked cool. This is worse than stepping on a plug as firstly I lost a lot of blood and couldn't walk properly for several weeks and secondly you get no sympathy when you explain that you fell off a ladder barefoot and stood on an amplifier.
>
>


fair dues. But even that's not as bad as standing on a trivial pursuit wedge in bare feet.
 Choss 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:

Looking forward to watching an Episode of Scooby doo, then finding out its one with scrappy in it?
 MJ 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:

"What is the worst outcome of any incident?".

Having to apologise...
Removed User 06 Nov 2013
In reply to MJ: Nice.
 Hat Dude 06 Nov 2013
In reply to ThunderCat:
> (In reply to Choss)
>
> "Standing on an upturned plug in bare feet"
>
> There is not a single event that is worse than this.

When i was a kid I jumped out of bed and landed on an upturned 13amp plug; the earth pin went into my heel until it struck bone

Most painful thing that's ever happened to me!
 colina 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent: the sacking of carol vorderman from countdown was a pretty bad thing I thought .
 Choss 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:

finding out your significant Other Secretly reads the daily mail?
J1234 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent: Piles
 Mike Highbury 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent: Accidental sex.
 ByEek 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Wiley Coyote:
> (In reply to mkean) we get sued?

Not if you have good insurance. Or should I say, not if your insurers have good lawyers.
In reply to Rampikino:
> (In reply to mkean)
>
> Break your risk down into categories that apply, then do an assessment against each risk.
>
> For example, you may have "Regulatory Risk" and you may have a scale of 1-5.

Or for the bank CEOs:

1. The state loses tens of billions and nothing happens to me
2. The banks shareholders lose everything and nothing happens to me
3. The bank's depositors lose some of their savings and nothing happens to me
4. I need to change jobs and get told off by the FSA
5. I don't get a bonus this year
 Firestarter 06 Nov 2013
In reply to tom_in_edinburgh:

Bar running dry
 Yanis Nayu 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent: Cock caught in zip.
andymac 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:

Admitting you were wrong.

"Yes, it was my fault"

 muppetfilter 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Mike Highbury:
> Accidental sex.

.... With a vertical Scaffold pole
In reply to Reach>Talent:

The internet not working.
Such sad, so stress.
 marsbar 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent: Michael Gove succeeds in world domination.
 ericinbristol 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent:

Finding out that there is a God and that he is seriously pissed off at you for not believing in him.
 Skol 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Choss:

Scrappy doo killed scooby, didn't he?
Scooby should have snacked the mouthy little fecker!
 Choss 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Skol:
> (In reply to Choss)
>
> Scrappy doo killed scooby, didn't he?

Sadly not. crappy just Ruined an Otherwise brilliant Cartoon.

> Scooby should have snacked the mouthy little fecker!

Yes he should have.

 Skol 06 Nov 2013
In reply to Choss:
Off thread, but my favourite was ' the miner '49er'
 Kemics 06 Nov 2013
In reply to marsbar:
> (In reply to mkean) Michael Gove succeeds in world domination.

This well might be it.

 Uncle Boz 07 Nov 2013
In reply to sjc:

+1

-1 because it's not as bad as the outcome that follows impact to ones testicles. That is THE worst [non-sausage]. FACT.

If the wife doesn't understand she also gets a swift punch to the ovaries to help her understanding.
 krikoman 07 Nov 2013
In reply to Reach>Talent: two of the worst...

my tea will be too cold to drink.

I become impotent.


one of the wurst...

My sausage gets cold.
 colina 11 Nov 2013
In reply to Submit to Gravity:
> (In reply to mkean) Cock caught in zip.

+1 ...easily done with a dick my size 8-)



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