Articles tagged: "personal safety"
1: How To Avoid Brain Injuries To Your Child
According to the Brain Injury Association, every year in the United States 1.4 million people are treated for traumatic brain injury (TBI) in hospital emergency rooms. About 50,000 people die each year from TBI, and 80,000 experience the onset of long-term disability.
2: How To Hike Safely
Communing with nature is no walk in the park. Whether your hike is planned for a few hours or a few days, there are precautions you need to take.
3: How To Avoid Falls At Home
Falls are the leading cause of preventable deaths in the home. According to the National Safety Council, each year about 12,000 people die from falls in their homes. Anyone is susceptible to a fall. However, with forethought, most falls can be prevented.
4: How To Avoid Insect Stings
Stinging insects! We can't live without them, so we'd better learn to live with them. Over 2 million Americans can have serious reactions to insect stings and bites. The National Safety Council reports that bee stings kill 50-100 people each year.
5: How To Paint Safely
Painting is an activity that most of us perform infrequently. This makes us more susceptible to accidents. The next time you plan to use a brush, keep these things in mind.
6: How To Swim Safely At Your Home Pool
Drowning is the second-leading cause of injury-related death in children. Each year, about 1,000 children drown and another 4,000 are hospitalized for near-drowning, usually in a pool owned by their family. Over 60 percent of children who drown in pools are under age four. These tragedies do not have to happen.
7: Self-Defense With A Stun Gun
There are a wide variety of non-lethal self-defense weapons available today. If you're looking for afford ability, portability and reliability, the standard stun gun is a great choice. Many different types can be ordered online.
8: How To Prevent Poisonings
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are more than two million unintentional human poisoning exposures a year in the United States, and approximately 20,000 deaths. These accidents can be prevented.
9: How To Stay Safe On ATVs
Each year, over 125,000 injuries requiring emergency room treatment happen to people riding ATVs. In recent years, ATV-related deaths exceeded 700 annually. About 25 percent of the deaths occur to children under age 16. A little attention to safety will pay big dividends.
10: Staying Safe On The Jogging Trail
One must be prepared both mentally and physically to take on the trail. The same preparation is necessary to combat its potential dangers.
11: The Need For Self-Defense Products
Protecting yourself is one of life 's basic instincts of survival. When you sense danger your body goes into high stress mode to warn you. Being able to defend yourself from harmful situations is essential. Don't be caught off guard without self-defense products.
12: Finding the Best Self Defense Product for You
It 's always best to be prepared for the worst. Purchasing a self defense product will give you peace of mind no matter where life takes you. There are many ways to defend yourself. It is important to pick the best match for your lifestyle. Even more importantly, remember that the sooner you buy a self defense product the better off you will be. It ensures your continued personal safety.
13: How To Help People With Disabilities Live Safely
People with impaired vision, hearing, balance, or mobility face special safety challenges we may not have considered. But there are some things we can do to be more helpful to disabled people, whether the disability is temporary or permanent.
14: How To Keep Your Grandkids Safe When They Visit
Grandchildren are truly a blessing. They rejuvenate and bring a great new sense of excitement and discovery. But there 's also the serious downside of knowing that if anything happens on your watch, you've failed your own children.
15: How To Use Power Tools Safely
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, about 100,000 people each year suffer injuries that require emergency room treatment from using home power tools. Power tools are wonderful devices, but they can be very harmful if you don't take the time to learn and follow the proper safety procedures.
16: How To Avoid Illness During Your Hospital Stay
While estimates vary, every year tens of thousands of people die or are harmed in hospitals due to preventable incidents. And while incorrect surgeries make the headlines, infections and drug interactions cause most problems. Here are some safety tips.
17: How To Prevent Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning kills over 400 people a year in the U.S., and causes over 10,000 to become ill. Sone preventive steps can eliminate this hazard in your home.
18: How To Drive Safely At Night And During The Fall
Everyone sees less well at night. In fact, you are more than three times as likely to be involved in a fatal crash at night as during daylight hours. Here are some tips to keep in mind as the seasons change.
19: How To Hunt Safely With A Gun
In a recent year about 80 fatalities and 750 nonfatal injuries occurred to U.S. hunters, according to the International Hunter Education Association. If you are among the millions of Americans who take to the fields with a loaded firearm, keep these things in mind.
20: Alcohol Safety
Ole was having a heck of time. The World War II fighter pilot had a captive audience at the restaurant, and he was in rare form. The stories became bigger than life, and Ole kept ordering his favorite gin and tonics.After dinner, everyone at the table knew he shouldn't be driving. Everyone exce
21: A Stun Gun or A Cell Phone? -Enhanced Personal Protection for Pocket or Purse
A new, high technology weapon has arrived in the battle against personal crime. The next time an attacker plans on robbing or attacking someone and they may get a surprise from the victim 's cell phone.A cell phone stun gun is now available. With a whopping 800,000 volts of stopping power, it
22: How To Use Electricity Safely
When safety procedures are not followed, life can be a series of painful should have 's and could have 's .Such was the case for California parents who should not have let their seven-year-old and nine-year-old daughters play in a filled bathtub near a hair dryer, especially when the dryer should
23: Mobile Phone Safety
It is a sad fact that mobile phone theft is a common occurance in our modern society. Phones are often stolen to be sold on and with ever changing models and special features, the lastest phones are in increasing demand and more likely to be the target of a theft. What is even sadder is that ch
24: How To Drive Defensively
Here 's some information that should bring you to a screeching stop: Your lifetime odds of being killed in a motor vehicle accident are about 1-in-100. Furthermore, each year one of nine drivers is involved in a reported motor vehicle collision. The best offensive against roadway hazards is driv
25: How To Water Ski Safely
Kathy was sure she was ready for this. True, she hadn't been on water skis for 15 years, but she had skied a lot as a girl.Water skiing, she reasoned, was no different than riding a bicycle. It all comes back to you once you climb on. So, even though Josh didn't want to drive the boat faster, K
26: Crime Prevention Strategies
My daughter loves to watch scary movies. She doesn't seem to get spooked from horror films but after watching the news one night about a home invasion and abduction, she begged to sleep in our room. Forget about scary movies. Those are actors. The news is about real events happening in our
27: The Effectiveness of Self Defense Sprays
I get questions all the time about the effectiveness of pepper spray or tear gas for self-defense. The answer is that these self defense tools are very effective in the hands of a person who knows how to use it. These devices are considered "non-lethal" personal self-defense weapons. You must k
28: How To Use Fireworks Safely
Danny and his pals had made a really neat discovery. If they held a soda bottle in their hands and lit a bottle rocket inside it, they could use them like weapons. They weren't totally dumb, either. They put on their sunglasses so nobody would get hit in the eye. They should have worn a coat of
29: How To Be A Safe Boater
You really have to wonder what Shirley and her friends were thinking as they roared their motorboat up and down the Mississippi River. First, they drank too much alcohol under the steady gaze of a hot July sun.Then they forgot to check the gas gauge and ran out of fuel. Finally, drifting at the
30: How Does A Pepper Spray Work?
Everyone seems to be using this type of personal protection Pepper sprays have become one of the foremost protection devices; especially among women
31: How To Use Ladders Safely
Man! What a great day to patch that loose shingle at the base of the chimney. Sun 's out, not a cloud in the sky, light breeze, high of 87 degrees. Mick took the ladder from the garage, removed his shirt, and shooed Carol shopping. Five minutes after she was gone, he knocked the ladder to the gr
32: How To Stay Safe During Storms
It started out as a simple trip to the grocery store, but ended up in terror. Heading out in the dark on a rain swept night, the three young people in rural Missouri never saw the rushing water that had risen treacherously from the creek bed to swamp the narrow road in their path.The car was im
33: How To Run Safely
Susan was a slave to her schedule. Rain or shine, she laced on her running shoes and set out on her daily jog. She left at the same time, ran the same route, and arrived home at the same time.It was like clockwork. And the schedule that gave Susan comfort gave the mugger opportunity. Susan knew
34: How To Use Hand Tools Safely
You know Uncle Will: the poster boy for Yankee Ingenuity. He 's the guy who can solve any household problem with little more than a hammer and screwdriver.One day Will used a screwdriver instead of a pry bar to rip boards off an old deck. When the screwdriver snapped under the strain, he fell an
35: How To Protect Vehicle Occupants
It 's not that Melissa dismissed the notion of fastening her seat belt. The thought just never entered her mind. She and her friends were eager to begin their picnic in the country, and there was more hurry than caution to her actions. At some point Melissa lost control of her car, and it rolled
36: How To Protect Yourself From Hypothermia
Old Man Winter can be a brutal companion if you aren't adequately prepared to keep his company.About 600 people die each year in American from excessive cold. Hypothermia can occur when the body temperature drops below 95 degrees as a result of prolonged exposure to cold temperatures. In extrem
37: Foreign Currency: Cash and Travellers Cheques
So you've booked your holiday, bought all your news clothes and packed the sun cream. All you need now is some spending money so you can enjoy yourself whilst you are away.You are advised to sort out your foreign currency before you set off on your holiday. All though you can always change your
38: Using Your Credit Cards Whilst on Holiday
More and more holiday makers are taking their credit cards on holiday with them to pay for goods rather than carrying large amounts of foreign currency. Of course this offers great convenience and at times added security but there important steps you should take to ensure that using your credit
39: How To Enjoy Arts And Crafts Hobbies Safely
We turn to our hobbies to relax and to escape life 's many stresses. Thus, it 's ironic to learn that our source of comfort can also be a source of danger. Like many activities that are relaxing and therapeutic on the surface, arts and crafts carry their own dangers. Too often, toxic materials ar
40: Giving Til It Hurts
Mendy lived in a mid sized city in the southeast. She was a very conservative and reliable. Mendy was truly a creature of habit. If she found something she liked, she stuck with it. If she like a store, she shopped there all the time. If she found a restaurant she liked she would eat there as
41: How To Prevent Home Fires
It was a large, noisy family gathering. The college students were back from school, and a crackling fireplace and lighted candles added to the festivities. Leslie looked forward to some home cooking, and catching up on everyone 's activities. She picked up a paper plate, held a paper napkin unde
42: How To Enjoy The Holidays Safely
For most of us during the holidays there just aren't enough hours in the day. However, if we don't slow down and take some time for safety, what should be a joyous period can become a season of regrets. Here 's a collection of suggestions to help keep you safe for the holidays.Fresh Trees And Sa
43: Arrive Alive: How To Drive Long Distances Safely
Perry couldn't control his excitement. He had just coached his son 's little league team to a city championship, and the adrenaline was pumping through his system. He went to bed but couldn't sleep. At 11 p.m. he rousted his family from bed to inform them they were leaving on their Florida vacat
44: How To Avoid Driving Distractions
Susie was driving home with her children after a medical appointment. Driving in the opposite direction was a contractor who was talking on his cell phone to a supplier. While looking at the phone, the contractor lost control of his vehicle, crossed the center line and hit Susie 's vehicle head
