The person clearing steps protects arrivals they may never witness.

Some care is aimed at people you will never meet. Clearing ice from a step protects whoever arrives at four in the afternoon, the postman, a neighbour with a stick, someone visiting a flat you do not know about, and none of them will know the step was ever dangerous. Prevention leaves no evidence. That is exactly what makes it easy to skip and worth doing anyway.

Find the small hazard near you that only you have noticed and remove it this week. Salt, a loose wire, a broken latch. Nobody will thank you, and somebody will be spared something.