Several things.

The Safety Code is the root of all evil.. oops... it is the source of all the safety regulations. In some cases, it refers to other documents, such as the turbine documents. It it is not there, as it is not for Giant Scale (general as opposed to racing) then there are no specific regs. There are several references within the Code to other documents, and some of those lead to other documents (such as racing, and then pylon racing).

It would seem that common sense would dictate a first aid kit and a fire extinguisher be part of each flyer's gear, kept in their car. Some fields are open to the public and it is not reasonable to require either to be out in the open where they will be used for something they are not designed for (like kids drinking at the field and deciding to find out how long a roll of gauze is, in the middle of the night). So much for common sense.

To me, it seems foolish to point at any segment of our hobby. The simple fact is that they all have risk. Bottom line, for every one of us: spinning props are dangerous. It goes from there. Debating the level of risk is counterproductive. We might be better served to debate what should be done at our fields to make them safer. (50% of the claims handled by the AMA are for 'trip and fall' type accidents, and not flying accidents. We might be better served with rules that required that we look at our fields for things like a piece of rebar that has been sticking up out of the ground for three years and eventually impaled a youngster, causing a large insurance claim. For those that don't realize it, the cost of the AMA commercial insurance policy works out to about $5-$6 per member, with the self insurance portion adding about $10 per member. Not enough to fight about, in my opinion.

Where newbies are concerned, I have been pushing my club to come up with a strict set of guidelines for new pilots. Too many are being cut loose too soon. Trying to make rules at the national level for this would, at the very least, be expensive. Trying to waiver a couple of thousand turbine pilots (about 750 currently) is one thing, trying to monitor thousands and thousands of new pilots is another. How many people would be required at HQ just for such a program? The clubs have to take some responsibility for safety issues, and newbies in one of those, in my opinion.