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Re: A plea for a quieter pit area

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Originally Posted by sanddrag View Post
I see it as a safety hazard more than a safety practice. Here's why.

The problem I see is that it's being yelled so often, and so many times without purpose, that two things are happening:

1. People hear it so often they are tuning it out. It has less meaning now. It's like the boy who cried wolf.
couldn't that be said for any noise making safety device (horns, sirens or what not)? By your logic, anything that makes noise or flashes a light on a regular basis is a safety hazard.

Safety experts are telling us to do it. I'm not sure why this practice is a bad thing. It's might be a tad annoying for some, but I'd rather have a few rolled eyes in my general direction than having to pull someone off the floor because they just ran into my team's robot on the way to queuing.
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