Tips For Your Personal Safety
The world we live in today is much
safer than the one known by your parents and grandparents. Even
considering the constant bombardment of news to the contrary, the
government and industry have taken some major steps to protect us all. In
almost everything we do, we are surrounded by protection based on safety
experience from the past.
You'll be safer - - but only if you
have a strong feeling for safety. Why? Because many of the safety factors
developed to protect you function only if you do something about them. Do
you buckle your seat belt every time you get in the car?
Crossing The Street
Do you cross the street at crossings
instead of jaywalking? Do you walk or jog on the left side of the road so
that you are facing oncoming traffic? These are just a few of the things
that you know and can do something about.
Safety awareness
We all must acknowledge the fact that
we bear some of the responsibility for making our environment safe and
safety is thinking about other people, too. Because in this safety
awareness, we can take steps to help others. For instance, a jagged piece
of metal and certain types of broken bottles on the street can cause tyre
problems to cars.
Broken Glass
Broken glass on the beach might also
send someone to the hospital for stitches. When you take time to clean up
things such as broken bottles, etc., you're taking a big step toward
protecting others.
Accidents will happen
An accident is something that happens
to you and to others. It's easy to think that these accidents just happen.
Buy they don't. They're not just bad luck or bad breaks that come to you
out of nowhere. An accident is never supposed to happen. It isn't planned
and it isn't deliberate. Accidents are caused!
Unsafe Conditions
An accident can be caused by an
unsafe condition. Look at your car. It can be a typical example of an
unsafe condition. Bad brakes and unsafe tyres, faulty headlights, loose
steering, and, yes, even dirty windscreens and side windows can cause
accidents, and they are all unsafe conditions.
Cause of accidents
And along this same line, we need to
consider unsafe acts as also contributing to the cause of accidents. These
are not 'conditions.' They are what you, or someone else, does or doesn't
do. A good example is jaywalking. You know it's dangerous to walk out
between parked cars to cross the street, but it's easier than walking down
to the next corner.
Unsafe Conditions
Both unsafe conditions and unsafe
actions exist, and either one can cause accidents. But you can put the two
together, as well. That car with the poor brakes, and all the other unsafe
conditions, isn't unsafe at all until someone starts to use it. It's the
act of using that causes the accident. Oh sure, the car was at fault, but
the driver of that car was the ultimate cause of the accident.
Poor judgment
You will find many unsafe conditions
in your daily life, but most of them become truly unsafe based on your own
actions related to them. What causes you to act in an unsafe way? Is it
carelessness? Poor judgment, were you at the wrong place at the wrong
time?
Constant awareness
There's never a total absence of
risks in our lives. Risks are voluntary actions and can be managed.
Emergencies can be met and handled, but it takes know-how and constant
awareness. What you can't prevent, you can usually compensate for or
protect against.
Four categories
Safety experts classify accidents in
four broad categories: Motor vehicle, work and job related, home, and
public. The public category excludes motor vehicle and work accidents in
public places. It covers sports and recreation (swimming, hunting, etc.),
air, water, or land transportation excluding motor vehicle and public
building accidents.
On the average, there are 10
accidental deaths and about 1,000 disabling injuries every hour during the
year. About one-half of the deaths occur in motor vehicle accidents while
about one-third of the injuries occur in and around the home.
It's not hard to imagine adding
yourself to the accident statistics. Any day of the week, you'll be
swamped with stories in the newspapers and on television about the many
tragic accidents going on all over the country and it seems to be getting
worse all the time. And in every case the victim was somebody who did not
plan or expect that they would be hurt or killed.
Pain and inconvenience
In a matter of seconds, everything
you were ever going to do and be can be snuffed out. At the least, you
suffer pain and inconvenience from an accident. At worst, an accident
kills or damages you for life.
Safety saves you, but it does more
than that. Mix each safety ingredient with all of your day to day
activities. And use common sense in everything you do.
Safety in the home
Safety in your home is a combination
of mind and matter. You mind must be constantly aware of the home safety
dangers. The matter is the safety condition of your home.
The safety condition of your home
isn't a case of rebuilding things to make it safe. It's more the disposal
of dangerous items, and a case of good housekeeping. A safe home has a
place for everything, and that along with the right mental attitude about
keeping those things in place is just good housekeeping.
The home is the most frequent place
for injury accidents to occur, and it is second only to motor vehicle
accidents for the number of deaths in the country today. Family members
are busier than ever rushing in and out so it's easy to understand how
careless mistakes are often made.
When you read the daily newspaper or
watch newscasts on TV, you'll see that home accidents can be classified in
two major ways. There are things that can totally disrupt your entire
community - - such as earthquakes, tornadoes, storms and floods.
And then there are those kinds of
accidents that are centred in your own home, and not involving the whole
community. These are things like fires, local earth sliding, flooding and
wind damage.
Consider all aspects
You will need to consider both types
when thinking about safety at home. For the community - wide disasters,
you may or may not receive any outside help for a considerable period of
time, and you must be prepared to survive on your own home resources. With
the second type, your home may be destroyed, but some help should be there
from the outside, early in the experience.
Agencies and organisations
Most cities and communities have some
agencies and organisations in place to assist the public in times of
severe emergencies. It is wise for everyone to do a home safety check on a
regular basis and get the family members involved. Naturally, every family
needs to develop its own plan because every house and every family is
different.
For your convenience,
we have prepared a list of search terms used in order of popularity,
to find more pages on this subject:
Searches completed in December 2004
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