I respectfully disagree. Safety is of the highest priority, so if there&#x27;s a serious risk to human life, there&#x27;s nothing hyperbolic about drawing attention to it. If you can&#x27;t do that, there&#x27;s something very wrong with your engineering culture.<p>To help the busy reader, the first paragraph of a memo should summarize the whole document. (Like the abstract of a technical paper.) This document is about an engineering problem <i>and</i> it&#x27;s serious consequences, so they should both be mentioned in the first paragraph.