[jaggederest]

Also known as complacency. Working in a woodshop, one of the things you are most vulnerable to is failing to respect the danger you're in. This is why many experienced woodworkers have been injured by e.g. a table saw - you stop being as careful after such long exposure.

[323]

A related thing is normalization of deviance. You start removing safety because you see nothing bad happened before, until you are at a point where almost no safety rules are respected anymore. You can see this a lot in construction videos.

[toss1]

Yup, complacency can kill you.

In this case [0], a skydiver forgot to put on his parachute...

https://reverentialramblings.com/2018/08/15/the-skydiver-who...

[stavros]

Oh man, that's terrible. I can certainly understand how someone without a checklist that is verified by two people can do that, especially if you have a backpack on to mask the fact that the parachute is missing.

Many times if I wear a tight jacket in the car, I forget to put my seat belt on, because I unconsciously mistake the pressure of the jacket for the seatbelt's, even though putting on a seat belt is usually the first thing I do.

Poor guy.

[ArcMex]

I generally take off my jacket before driving for that very reason.

[stavros]

Luckily newer cars won't stop beeping if you forget your seatbelt, so the problem is mitigated. Not so for parachutes, apparently.

[necovek]

To be honest, I never wear a parachute when driving!

[stavros]

Better not drive close to cliffs then!

[ask_b123]

Wow, that's terrifying and a good cautionary tale.

Also, when I read

> I’m hoping you can you forgive me as a minister of religion for likening this story to a spiritual cautionary tale. Yes, we do need to live each day as if it might be our last.

I thought, "Hmm, sounds adventist", and sure enough :-)

[blunte]

And why pilots traditionally work from checklists, even if they've done the process thousands of times.