Oh, I'm familiar with that quote. But look around. Our society has cultivated stupid people and coddled them. Stupidity is rewarded now. The tables have turned on John Wayne's assertion.
Experienced this just today.
I manage the air quality monitors used for hot work and confined space entry at work.
One of the plant services guys comes in and requests a monitor. I ask where it will be used, so if it doesn't get returned I know where to look for it.
He says they need it for the lunch room. I say, you're doing hot work in the lunch room at lunch time?
The lunch room has microwaves, but no kitchen facilities.
It turns out some Gen X engineer decided they needed a hot work permit (which requires air monitoring) to cook hamburgers!!
Keep in mind that we have food trucks on site daily which use propane to cook. No hot work permit required for them.
I'm assuming someone brought either an electric skillet, or a George Foreman, as they would probably not approve a BBQ grill outside the back door. (I'll find out tomorrow)
And God forbid you say "Common Sense" as a response to "How do you know how to do this?"
I was told to my face we can't use common sense by a swinging dick from corporate. Even though the trainer at the training class I had to attend as a result said "Basically, we just use common sense when inspecting this."
So I spent all day in a class to learn how to use the skill set I already had.
5 years later it was determined I forgot everything I knew about the subject, even though I perform these very inspections monthly, and they scheduled "refresher training". Another 8 hour class, of which, only the last 20 minutes pertained to what I do.
I liken this to telling someone that even though you drive your car everyday, you need to take an 8 hour Driver's Ed training program.
