CASSANDRA, THE PROPHETESS OF DOOM – RSPP

Cassandra has the gift of prophecy, but no one believes her.

He fell in love with her Apollo, who had given her the faculty of prophecy.

When Cassandra rejected him, the god punished her:

No one would have believed her prophecies - even though they were destined to come true!

She warns the Trojans not to drag the wooden horse abandoned by the Greeks on the beach within the walls, but he is not listened to.

Agamemnon the victor is on the chariot and has Cassandra next to him as his concubine.

Cassandra accuses Apollo of having led her to ruin a second time, in a house where the Erinyes hover, demons of vengeance, thirsty for blood, and prophesies the imminent killing of Agamemnon.

Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's unfaithful wife, awaits them.

Once again unheeded, Cassandra's prediction comes true and Clytemnestra kills her husband.

Disheartened, the prophetess throws her scepter and priestly bandages to the ground, tears her cloak from her shoulders and predicts Orestes' future revenge, which will come later.

What does Cassandra have to do with us Prevention technicians?

Let's see the definition of prevention from the Treccani dictionary:

"Adoption of a series of measures to protect oneself from a future evil, and therefore the action or set of actions intended to achieve this purpose."

It is a paradox, ours, which is more than anything else a deliberate provocation useful for starting to reflect and identify the correct methodologies and the difficulties that can be encountered in doing our job well, knowing what the attitude is often like, although involuntary , of our interlocutor.

It may happen that we workers prevention we give directions or glimpse risks and dangers, which are not so evident to everyone (sometimes we don't want to see them).

It may happen that the solutions we provide may be considered excessive and inapplicable (sometimes this is exactly the case).

It may happen that our studies highlight deficient situations, which are not welcome (sometimes it happens).

Foresight is therefore our gift, which is not natural, but rather built through a long training process.

What really matters is be or become increasingly credible through study, in-depth analysis and experience, knowing that we hear ourselves saying "it never happened"