Glass in wet spaces

摘要

One night, my dog decided to splash his feet in his water bowl and spilled it on my kitchen floor. During a dark walk for a midnight snack, the reduced friction on the tile coupled with the pull of gravity quickly brought me down. The hazard that caused my fall-wet tile in a dark room-was well within the realm of possibility, but not necessarily probable. Here's why I bring up "possible" vs. "probable": The probable hazards in the built environment-those identified through statistics, science, and anticipated human behaviors-are what building codes aim to protect us from. They aren't written to protect us from every humanly possible scenario, such as my dog bowl experience, just the probable ones that could result in serious injury.