Safety is one aspect of life many take for granted. Even in the little day to day affair, it is important to be safety conscious.

Safety is very important that, it could help save us from lots of stress, trouble, financial spending.

What is safety?

Often times, we are told that keeping safe is protecting or guarding once self against harm or danger. But in reality, safety is much more than that.
Safety is the act of taking precaution against the occurrence that could lead to harm or danger either to us or to other people. You don't have to wait till the actual event and try to be a super hero to avert incidence/accident to be safe. It start from taking all necessary precautions to ensure there is no room for incidence/accident to happen. Although we cant be to careful and perfect, but when the appropriate and necessary cautions are taken, we will be saved from a lot of trouble.

When we mention safety, what comes to mind is keeping safe from physical harm/danger.

Many times we think, we are not expose to harm because we do not work in the factory, handle equipments, drive on the road and all that.
Safety is way deeper than that. It goes far beyond the physical. There need for emotional safety, intellectual safety as well as mental safety.

Mental safety:

Safety on its own start from the mind. When you are safety conscious from the inside, it is very easy to think and apply safety to keep your environment safe, irrespective of the kind of environment you find yourself. It is very paramount that we keep our minds safe from harm and danger.

Emotional safety:

This form of safety is the most neglected. Many times we take emotional issues for granted, we do not mind the use of words and languages, how we react to other people feelings, and most cases our response to people when they try reaching out to us. One very common way of causing emotional harm to people is neglecting them. Keeping your environment from hostility, abuse, use of bad languages will create an emotional safe environment for others, conducive to work and learn. It is very important we keep our environment emotionally safe so as we can have maximum productivity and also prevent emotionally casualties.

Intellectual Safety:

Mainly apply to working environment. A conducive and safe working environment helps people be themselves, speak up and be of best behaviour. These form of safety practice tends to help people regulate their behaviour around others. Take for instance, caution taken to ensure no form of harassment, abuse, illegal actions helps keep a working environment safe and healthy for you and others. Most times, it involve putting out certain rules and regulations. A typical example is caution against racist post on steemit, plagiarized post, abusive post. Such post could harm other people and cost them a lot of damage to fix. Hence the need for flag to notify caution and disagreement.

Physical safety:

This is protecting yourself against getting hurt physically. Some of these form of safety that are taken likely include;
Texting and driving; I have seen quite a number of people do this. You may think you are smart and would be able to quickly avoid an accident. But it will save you a lot not to find yourself in a position where you have to take rapid action than having to take one. Because it may just be too late.
Drunk driving/ drinking and driving; Many do not understand that when the alcohol level in your system is higher than the regular for normal body function, your judgement is impaired. This could result to making wrong decision or moves that could cause a serious damage to you and others. Hence the law is very strict on jeopardizing safety driving drunk.

Day to Day activities; such as simple hygiene could cost us more if not safety conscious. Hygiene such as washing your hand, eating food that are well prepared and free of germs. It will cost you money to treat yourself than to keep safe.

Other forms of physical safety such as when working in the factories, handling equipments, operating machines, domestic environment; are very common and not usually neglected as much as the once listed above.

I hope you we will take safety more seriously and step up our safety techniques. It saves you lot more than having to repair a damage. Of which some damages are not repairable and could result to lost of lives or property.

Thank you for stopping by.

Stay connected and follow