Because God’s sovereignty is in control, accidents are just incidents in God’s good plan for you. Because every day of your life was written on God’s calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance. Everything!

Rick Warren

I definitely agree with your examples. All too often we simply call things accidents to remove all guilt associated with the incidents. It makes us feel better because owning the responsibility for the bad things that happen is not one of our better traits as a generation.

Nothing is my fault right? In reality, most everything is our own fault.

I am glad to see that some of our younger generation can actually see what is going on around them and be able to tell the difference between an accident and an incident. An example that some people like to brag about, “I was so loaded Friday night that I don’t even remember how I got home.” If and when these people have a wreck they call it an accident but it was actually pre-meditated in my way of thinking.

Poor supervision – Supervisors that turn their heads when they see an employee doing an unsafe act, don’t want anyone to be mad at me. This happens a lot more than people want to admit.

Poor training – Trainer rushes the employees through because they are needed on their job right away, or this movie is really boring and some of the scenes are really disgusting, so lets fast forward through this part.

Associates get too complacent on their jobs, taking short cuts, wearing ear phones and listening to music or whatever they listen to, talking to other associates when they should be paying attention to their jobs. etc.

New drivers getting their licenses and or C.D.L. before they are ready. $500.00 used to buy your C.D.L. even if you couldn’t drive a truck.

This list could go on and on and it affects everyone, whether you cause the incident or whether you were injured by someone else not acting responsible

I also agree that calling bad situations an accident removes the responsibility of those involved because it does imply that nothing could be done. Most of the time, an accident is an incident that could have been prevented.

Many safety officials don’t even like to use the term “accident”… they go for the word “incident” instead. Why? I think many feel that when using the word accident, it somehow gives a person the feeling that it’s alright to act in a careless manner if they choose to and no matter what the outcome, they’ll be off the hook…after all, it was just an accident and it could have happened to anyone, right?