Accra Area Manager of the Ghana Railways Company Limited, Ing. Michael Asante, met his untimely death, after he jumped off a moving train and got run over by the train.
The unfortunate incident happened when he together with his team were on an inspection tour of the Accra-Nsawam rail line.
According to reports, he was standing in the outer frontage of the train when they saw a naked electric wire across the route of the train around Pokuase. In an attempt to avoid being entangled by the wire, he jumped off the moving train, and was overrun by the train.
From the safety standpoint, he lacked safety resilience and so his fight or flight response in the face of danger put him in the line of fire after he made the wrong decision.
In emergency situations, we are often faced with the pressure to make a quick decision, either to fight or flee. Our ability to cope with the difficulty and bounce back determines our level of safety resilience.
It is important that we learn to develop our personal safety resilience skill so that we can make the right decision whenever situations change or we are faced with danger.
If only he had a good safety resilience, he wouldn’t have jumped off the train in an attempt to avoid the perceived risk of entanglement by the naked electric wire to get run over by the train.
May his soul rest in peace.