Design is Dangerous

Generally, all designs can be dangerous to both humans and society if they were handled improperly; however, some designs due to their applications, are more likely to cause danger than other designs. For example, heavy-duty machineries such as construction crane are great representation of what dangerous designs can be.

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First, construction cranes have not been intentionally designed to be dangerous, but could became dangerous through flawed operations. Construction cranes are essential to today’s society and play an extremely important role in city modernization and construction advancements. Well designed and engineered, construction cranes allow construction workers to efficiently transfer materials and minimize project costs. In other cases, cranes are use to load and unload shipments off of freights, benefiting our bustling import and export businesses.  Despite all its uses, construction crane, if not used carefully, would cause more danger than the benefits it brings. To illustrate, a crane operator who has not been paying attention while working on the crane might accidentally drop a steel beam. Hence, the construction cranes would become a hazard for other workers. In this case, the construction crane was not been dangerous to begin with, but had become unsafe from flawed operation.

However, people tend to have the impression that construction cranes are dangerous overall because of the cranes colossal size. Moreover, people usually misinterpret that construction crane are not safe to be around because the crane often carries around heavy object that are gigantic compare to a single human. In addition, the slim appearance of cranes brings people to the hypothesis that the crane might break easily. Nevertheless, cranes are carefully designed and engineered to prevent the kind of danger mentioned above.

In conclusion, most of the dangers posed by the construction cranes are unintentional. Evidence demonstrates that most irreversible damages are cause by flawed operation rather than flawed design.