Snapshot

Being Safe Is Feeling Safe

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Goal

Improve product or service safety of a local government organization

Problem

Many accidents occur because the injured are unaware of the danger

Sebir

Product or service safety is upgraded through augmenting the source of potential harm so that it automatically makes itself known whenever people are physically near enough to be at risk. For instance, a local government equips its firetrucks with low-frequency sirens whose vibrations can be felt even by headphone-wearing pedestrians who instinctively get well out of the way when they sense the vehicles’ approach The incidence of injuries caused to people unmindful of any threat reduces significantly when essential warnings that overcome such ignorance are spontaneously generated

Breeding Hint 1

Think about how you might pre-empt any possibility of your products or services causing harm by redesigning the offending feature so that it contains its own warning whenever situations require it. This should eliminate many injurious possibilities

Breeding Hint 2

Think how you might engage with people’s normal behavior so as to enlist their cooperation in achieving safer environments. Such a cooperative approach should assist safety outcomes more than purely unilateral approaches

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