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Chapter 19A Lecture

Access to Health Thirteenth Edition

Focus On

Reducing

Your Risk of

Unintentional

Injury

Did you PREPARE and did you LEARN?

• Write down the five leading factors that affect

motor vehicle safety.

• Write down five factors that can improve bike

riding safety.

• Write down five factors that can help prevent

swimming accidents.

• As you view the slides, check off how many of

your answers are correct.

Are You at Risk on the Road?

• Five factors affect motor vehicle safety:

– Distracted driving

– Impaired driving

– Speeding

– Vehicle safety issues

– Driver age

Banning Phone Use While Driving:

Good Idea or Going Too Far?

Practice Risk-Management Driving

Techniques

• Do not manipulate electronic devices while driving.

• Avoid talking on a cell phone while driving, even if the

phone is hands free.

• Do not drink and drive.

• Do not drive when you are tired, emotionally upset, or

stressed out.

• Surround your car with a safety bubble, keeping the rear

bumper of the car ahead of you by at least 3 seconds.

Practice Risk-Management Driving

Techniques

• Scan the road ahead of you and to both sides.

• Always drive with your low-beam headlights on,

day and night.

• Anticipate the actions of other drivers.

• Obey all traffic laws and always wear a seat belt.

Unintentional injuries kill

nearly 118,000

Americans in 2010.

That's over 320 people

per day.

How Many Americans Die from

Unintentional Injuries Each Year?

Can You Play It Safe and Still Have Fun?

• Follow the rules for bike safety:

– Wear an approved helmet.

– Watch the road and listen for traffic.

– Never listen to an MP3 player or talk on a cell

phone while cycling.

– Do not drink alcohol and ride.

– Follow all traffic laws, signs, and signals.

– Ride with the flow of traffic.

Can You Play It Safe and Still Have Fun?

• Follow the rules for bike safety:

– Wear bright or light-colored clothing.

– Avoid riding after dark.

– Know and use proper hand signals.

– Keep your bicycle in good condition.

– Use bike paths whenever possible.

– Stop at stop signs and traffic lights.

Fitting a Bicycle Helmet

Stay Safe on Your Board

• Wear an approved helmet, padded clothes,

special skateboarding gloves, and padding for

knees and other joints.

• Maintain the board; check it for loose, broken,

sharp, or cracked parts.

• Examine the surface where you will ride.

• Never skateboard in the street.

Stay Safe on Your Board

• Never hitch a ride from a vehicle.

• Practice complicated stunts in specially

designated areas, using protective padding.

• Practice safe falling: if you start to lose your

balance, crouch down; if you fall, try to relax and

roll.

• Do not drink and ride.

Many skateboarding injuries

occur among people who have

been practicing the sport for

more than a year, often when

they attempt a stunt beyond

their level of skill. Wearing a

helmet, no matter how

experienced a skateboarder you

are, will help protect you in case

of a fall.

Do I Really Have to Wear a Helmet while I'm

Skateboarding?

Stay Safe in the Snow

• Always wear an approved helmet.

• Stay out of the way of other skiers and obey all

posted signs and warnings.

• Shorter skis provide more safety.

• Improved safety features on equipment and

increased safety measures at resorts contribute

to the decline in yearly deaths and injuries

related to snow activity.

Stay Safe in the Water

• Do not drink any alcoholic beverage before or

while swimming.

• Don't enter the water without a life jacket unless

you can swim at least 50 feet unassisted.

• Know your limitations and stay within them.

• Never swim alone.

• Never leave a child unattended near any body of

water.

Stay Safe in the Water

• Before entering the water, check its depth.

• Never swim in a river with currents too swift for

an easy, relaxed swim.

• Never swim in muddy or dirty water.

• If you are caught in a rip current, swim parallel to

it until you are free of it and can swim to shore.

• Learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

Boating

• Share your plans for your outing, letting others

know where you are going, with whom, and

when you will be back.

• Check the weather.

• Make sure that the boat is seaworthy.

• Make sure that you have life jackets for

everyone on board.

• Carry an emergency radio and cell phone.

• Do not drink alcoholic beverages before you

leave to go boating and do not have alcohol on

board.

Have Fun with Fireworks—Safely

• Fireworks cause an estimated 7,000 injuries in

the United States each year.

• These injuries often include the loss of fingers or

hands.

• Improperly stored fireworks pose a higher risk of

causing injuries.

Activity Break

• Review how many factors you correctly guessed from the "Did you PREPARE and did you LEARN slide?" at the beginning of lecture and determine how many out of a total of 15 you earned.

• Make a decision about one thing you will do differently to improve your safety.

How Can You Avoid Injuries at Home?

• Unintentional poisoning kills about 87 people each day,

and in 2010, over 830,000 people were treated in

emergency departments for unintentional poisoning.

• Falls are the third most common cause of death from

unintentional injuries. About 20 to 30 percent of falls

result in moderate to severe injury.

• Reduce your risk of fire. In 2010, more than 2,600

Americans—not including firefighters—died in a fire. The

most common causes of home fires are cooking,

careless smoking, and arson.

Factors that Contribute to Dormitory Fires

• Alcohol

• Student apathy

• Lack of preparation

• Failure of early detection

• Delayed response

How Can You Avoid At-Home Injuries?

• Learn first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation

(CPR). Everyone should be encouraged to get

training in CPR, which is taught on most college

campuses.

• Limit your exposure to loud noise. More than 36

million U.S. adults have hearing loss, and

according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,

occupational hearing loss is the most commonly

recorded occupational illness in manufacturing,

accounting for 1 in 9 reportable illnesses.

Noise Levels of Various Sounds (dB)

How Can You Avoid Injury While Working?

• Protect your back.

– Back pain is one of the most common chronic

ailments among college students.

How Can You Avoid Injury While Working?

• Maintain alignment while sitting.

– Check your posture right now.

– Are your feet flat on the floor?

– Is your middle back firmly against the back of

the chair?

– Are your shoulders relaxed and not rolled or

hunched?

– When you are sitting at a computer screen, do

you have to look up or down?

How Can You Avoid Injury While Working?

• Avoid repetitive-

motion disorders.

Are You Prepared for Environmental

Events?

• A natural disaster is any extreme environmental

event that causes widespread destruction of

land and/or property, injuries, and sometimes

deaths.

• It is important to take the time to learn about the

different types of natural disasters and prepare

for them.

Assess Yourself–A Personal Inventory

• Go online to the Live It! section of

www.pearsonhighered.com/donatelle to take the "Are

You at Risk for a Motor Vehicle Accident?" assessment.

• Using a scale of 1, 2, 4, or 5, where 5 represents

absolute safety, evaluate yourself on the following:

– Driving safety

– If you ride a bike or skateboard, evaluate your

performance on that.

– If you engage in boating or snow activities, evaluate

each of those.