Over the past few weeks theres been some more threads about safety issues in paintball. I'm just wondering what it is going to take for a more encompassing approach to the safety of players to happen?
I know there are some things in place already which are in the interests of safety. But it appears to me that unless it is blatantly obvious or regulated by the government then it is overlooked??!!
For example, we are all made to wear goggles to protect the eyes (blatantly obvious).
We are all made to have our bottles tested to ensure there safety (government ruling).
What about things like :
1. The pressures lines and fittings are tested to? A case in point being Iain from the Northern Outkasts being injured??!! Isn't it about time these are regulated too?
2. The use of compressed air on site and how it is maintained etc. The only one to be honest I fully trust is H-pacs because you know they know what they are doing. But what is there out there to regulate our use of it, and all the people carrying filled dive tanks etc around in there cars with little thought as to what it can potentially do.
3. The many numbers of people who try to 'repair' there kit, especially relating to air systems that know a little about there workings. Sorry but I wouldn't try and change my breaks in my car if I didn't know what I was doing, so why do people try and fix things which are so potentially dangerous with the same level of knowledge?
Is it just a cast that unless we are told by the government that we don't, even when we see potential safety issues address them?
Before I get flamed for any of the above, I have at some time committed the above offences
But use now some common sense when it comes to things like, the fittings I use etc. I just wonder how many people there are out there without the same aptitude...
How many times have you looked at the guy next to you at the chrono station and thought... that marker and air system look really old, with haggard looking fittings and took a step back from him
Your thoughts please
EDIT: Also wanted to add I'm not trying to envoke some kind of scare. Just wanting some rational thought
I know there are some things in place already which are in the interests of safety. But it appears to me that unless it is blatantly obvious or regulated by the government then it is overlooked??!!
For example, we are all made to wear goggles to protect the eyes (blatantly obvious).
We are all made to have our bottles tested to ensure there safety (government ruling).
What about things like :
1. The pressures lines and fittings are tested to? A case in point being Iain from the Northern Outkasts being injured??!! Isn't it about time these are regulated too?
2. The use of compressed air on site and how it is maintained etc. The only one to be honest I fully trust is H-pacs because you know they know what they are doing. But what is there out there to regulate our use of it, and all the people carrying filled dive tanks etc around in there cars with little thought as to what it can potentially do.
3. The many numbers of people who try to 'repair' there kit, especially relating to air systems that know a little about there workings. Sorry but I wouldn't try and change my breaks in my car if I didn't know what I was doing, so why do people try and fix things which are so potentially dangerous with the same level of knowledge?
Is it just a cast that unless we are told by the government that we don't, even when we see potential safety issues address them?
Before I get flamed for any of the above, I have at some time committed the above offences
But use now some common sense when it comes to things like, the fittings I use etc. I just wonder how many people there are out there without the same aptitude... How many times have you looked at the guy next to you at the chrono station and thought... that marker and air system look really old, with haggard looking fittings and took a step back from him
Your thoughts please
EDIT: Also wanted to add I'm not trying to envoke some kind of scare. Just wanting some rational thought
