>The result of a rush-job is always a gruesome headline on the local news.
The opposite. 99x/100 rushing things turns out fine. It's just a small fraction of the time you get a near miss or an actual injury. We just happen to live in a society where those risks aren't tolerated. Elsewhere in the world those risks are tolerated. That's part of why so much manufacturing has moved overseas. When you don't have to spend an hour locking out a conveyor system to spend 10min replacing a part you can pass those savings down to your customers and undercut the competition.
Hence the term 'normalization of deviance' [0] (where small problems occur repeatedly and people become habituated to them because nothing really bad ever happens). When the really bad thing happens, then you get the gruesome headlines. Examples the are O-ring burn-through events that preceded the Challenger disaster [1] (7 astronauts, dead), and the 'smoulders' that preceded the Kings Cross underground railway fire [2] (31 people. Dead.)
>It's just a small fraction of the time you get a near miss or an actual injury.
We're taught to value the entire lifecycle of our work, at least in my field. For example, rushing to finish a steering maintenance on a large tanker truck could mean your friend gets his thumbs crushed under a pry bar, or it could mean hundreds of fatalities as the poor job you did caused the tanker to collide with a shopping center.
A missing cotter pin or a failed motor ground could easily injure dozens, or even kill them, on a large enough escalator.
>, or it could mean hundreds of fatalities as the poor job you did caused the tanker to collide with a shopping center.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. The vast majority of the time mechanical failure results in the vehicle coming to a stop on the shoulder without anything spectacular happening. Think about all the trailer blowouts where the only damage was to the underwear of whoever was nearby. We do things (like install cotter pins, on steering, not in tires, or not intentionally at least) to prevent those sorts of failures because there's a small chance of something spectacularly bad happening (and because downtime is $$ and if you're broken down on the side of the road the DOT vultures will turn up out of nowhere and find a reason to make your downtime even more $$).
My point still stands. Most corner cutting (is it even corner cutting if the safety requirement isn't there in the first place?) will turn out fine unless you cut the same corner every day of your life or cut a ton of corners at once. If that weren't the case every electrician that ever tagged out a breaker with a piece of tape and a note saying to check to make sure X isn't still being worked on would be dead.
The opposite. 99x/100 rushing things turns out fine. It's just a small fraction of the time you get a near miss or an actual injury. We just happen to live in a society where those risks aren't tolerated. Elsewhere in the world those risks are tolerated. That's part of why so much manufacturing has moved overseas. When you don't have to spend an hour locking out a conveyor system to spend 10min replacing a part you can pass those savings down to your customers and undercut the competition.