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Engineering controls basically mean making it impossible to do something in a way that results in catastrophe.
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Good point.

My experience is that everyone thinks their defensive controls are air tight until inevitably they're going through a post-mortem on a failure where someone says, "Whelp...Murphy's Law..."

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I'd be interested to hear why my restatement was incorrect. I'm confident that it's what Murphy meant, mostly because I've read his other laws and that's what I recall as the general through line. But that's was a long time ago and perhaps I'm misremembering or was misinterpreting at the time.
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Sorry, didn't mean for my comment to come off mean. I can see how it is pedantic or maybe more subjective opinion.

Your phrasing is right.

I was just doing a quick take on this qualifier:

> which is not prevented by a strong engineering control

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