• Question: What would happen if nobody (even you) didn't do your work?

    Asked by anisa to Matthew, Neil, Paula, Pete, Philippa on 6 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Matthew Gall

      Matthew Gall answered on 6 Mar 2015:

      If nobody did my work, websites like Twitter or Facebook wouldn’t be very nice places to be!

    • Photo: Pete Symons

      Pete Symons answered on 6 Mar 2015:

      Given the current regulations, the military wouldn’t have any Aircraft to fly. Current military (and civil) regulations require a safety case to assure the safety of aircraft, without the safety case there would be little or no assurance meaning people wouldn’t want to fly on planes. Which if you take it step further would weaken the UK defence capability!

    • Photo: Philippa Jefferis

      Philippa Jefferis answered on 8 Mar 2015:

      If no one did my work, then roads would fall into disrepair and over time bridges would collapse. It would mean that lots of things we rely on like food and clothes would no longer be able to be transported round the country by lorry, making it much harder to get everything distributed.

    • Photo: Neil Taylor

      Neil Taylor answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      Hi!

      If nobody did my work, then we wouldn’t know if the subsea pipelines that carry oil and gas were safe. This would be an extremely dangerous situation to be in, as lives could be at risk – especially those who work offshore on oilrigs.

      But fortunately, there are subsea engineers out there… and any work that is done gets checked by other engineers to ensure that it correct.

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