I'm pretty sure that as far back as the run into Heffan's Bay, no one was allowed to just walk around out there like that. There's a harness everyone was supposed to wear way back before the accident. Maffet wasn't a bad man, not slapdash, not a fly-by-night, his work was up to code, he wan't a pain to bunk with. So seeing him out there without the safety kit means that no-one wore it. I walked by the lockers every day and never even checked it was still in there, let alone in reasonable condition. No wonder the accident hit us like it did.
There was an issue with the tether, as I remember, it got in the way of the welding arm when you had onboard gravity flukes. Not that that's any excuse for violating safety policy, and especially since not everyone on Lower D was welding or even qualified. But that was a thing.
I'm pretty sure that as far back as the run into Heffan's Bay, no one was allowed to just walk around out there like that. There's a harness everyone was supposed to wear way back before the accident. Maffet wasn't a bad man, not slapdash, not a fly-by-night, his work was up to code, he wan't a pain to bunk with. So seeing him out there without the safety kit means that no-one wore it. I walked by the lockers every day and never even checked it was still in there, let alone in reasonable condition. No wonder the accident hit us like it did.
ReplyDeleteThere was an issue with the tether, as I remember, it got in the way of the welding arm when you had onboard gravity flukes. Not that that's any excuse for violating safety policy, and especially since not everyone on Lower D was welding or even qualified. But that was a thing.
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