In article om,
Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
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Not yet, but my work is in the risk management field. It is close to
being a metaphysical certainty that the insurers will do this as soon
as they realize that there is an option.

The cost of replacing a table saw with a saw stop is trivial, $3500 is
nothing compared to the cost of a negligence lawsuit. The risk of
injury is clearly very high, the cost of the injury anywhere up to a
million dollars or so (kid loses hand).

If you want to make something happen fast there are two ways to do it,
either you make it an audit requirement or you make it an insurance
requirement.


In a school or training environment, I could probably be persuaded
that this was a good idea. But once the insurance companies "realize
that there is an option" it's not too far a stretch to see that other
tools could utilize this same technology. What happens when insurers
mandate that everything from tablesaws to grinders to routers and
circular saws are equipped with similar mechanisms? That $3500
multiplied by X might not be so trivial after all.

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Larry Wasserman Baltimore, Maryland