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Article: Shortcuts may be efficient, but are they worth the risk?
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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From U.S. Coast Guard reports
Given a choice between doing things the correct way and using methods that save time and money, which would you choose?
Quite often, our response is to cut corners; and more often than not, we are successful despite or even because of it. And when shortcuts do not immediately yield bad results, they can become routine. Over years of practice, a routine shortcut may be handed down and corn pounded with other seemingly successful shortcuts, increasing the risk to you and your vessel. When investigators describe the problems leading up to an accident, they often hear, "That's the way we've always done it," or, "Everyone does it ...