Safety+Education

What is Safety Education?

Safety Education is recognizing habits or behaviors that could cause the person or people around a person to incur injury or death and attempting to modify or replace those habits or behaviors with safer alternatives.


 * School-You walk into the classroom and notice a student throwing a pencil across the room to his friend. This may cause injury so you not only recognize the behavior but let the students know about the danger of the act and ask the students about creating a rule to change the behavior or ask the students how they could better pass a pencil that won't injure anyone, a replacement of the behavior.


 * Home- Your child begins to pull up on tables and other items in the room and you begin to notice there are many sharp edges that might injure her. You can either modify the room by adding bumpers to the corners that are sharp or block areas that contain sharp items from the child to change the behavior.


 * Work- An employee is lifting boxes and you notice he uses his back to lift most of the weight and seems to be somewhat in pain. This behavior will eventually have a bad outcome such as back pain, muscle and bone issues, and possible hernias. The habit can be modified by educating this individual on the best ways to lift heavy object, how to ask for assistance, and training on equipment that might aid in his job such as lifts or dollies.