It’s a big question and source of many stories about the risks that occur; Lightning: The “season” is here. Many comments and questions come into the newsletter email “bin” and address various points of debate.

Here is one recent correspondence:

Been around for a while?...or does it just feel that way?

Sit back, kick your legs up and give yourself a few minutes to read this piece. Chances are you’re living in a time that years from now you’ll remember as THE time of transition. Perhaps you’ll tell your grandchildren about it and they will listen to you with a better ear than that you gave to your parents or grandparent regarding something like polio vaccine or something; Their transitions.

Many sources are used for the compilation of Human Factors that govern safe behaviors.

In the study of ENG safety, human factors are foremost in the cause of news vehicle accidents.

Believe it or not, even “Dear Abby” is a source for us.

Read this and imagine four people in your life.

ONE: High in task accomplishment, low in interper sonal skills. - Aggressive.

TWO: Low in task accomplishment, high in interpersonal skills. - Passive.

THREE: Low in task accomplishment, low in interpersonal skills. - Inert.

FOUR: High in task accomplishment, high in interpersonal skills. - Assertive.

Who are you in this description?

News people exposed to traumatic circumstances need to process through what they have seen just as emergency services people do. The family unit needs healthy people just as the news unit does. It may not be about your life, but as witness to trauma and misery, it becomes part of your life.

Monday morning. A fine time for safety reminders.

Monday 7-18...newsletter author opens up the Office and reads one of the normal morning industry periodicals from NewsBlues.com. What a Monday...

Unfortunate for a few as indicated below, but lessons for the careers of all. Things DO happen, and we can learn from the experience of others.

This issue has a good one for the Summer....Hydration. While not a repeated article, it’s the same old story we need to read every Summer.

If you have a few, you’ve got more than a few problems to deal with.

Operators who have worked at different stations know that the transition from one to another is difficult, as each company usually has trucks from different integrators.

Lose layer by layer of your protective mechanisms and pretty soon nothing’s left.

It may have been the most startling of statements. Such statements are SO typical before accidents of any kind. They wave red flags.

That pesky human factor problem.

It happened again in NY last month: A news van driver drove off with the vehicle’s mast extended, and it toppled after catching on overhead lines.