What trivial knowledge might save your life one day?

Around five years back, as part of a training, we were working on the Risk Assessment for rooftop work.

One of them suggested lightning as a potential risk.

The other said ‘But when it is cloudy or stormy, we don’t go to the rooftop, right.’

The trainer then said:

Yes. You are right. You will not go to the rooftop when the weather is bad.

But say, you are already on the rooftop to setup five devices for your experiment. And you finished four.

The sky suddenly starts to turn cloudy and stormy. You hear thunders.

But you don’t run this time. Rather, you are conditioned to think, ‘Let me finish this one and leave, otherwise I have to come up again for this small work another day.’

You continue to work more hastily.

And that is how accidents happen.

People are mostly safe and sound when they are prepared. They get injured badly only when the accident happens in the least expected scenario.

• You carry your helmet always, but you don’t bother to take it when you are just driving to a nearby shop.
• You follow all rules. But you drive in the opposite direction when driving back home as taking a U-Turn is very long.
• You jump the signal thinking no vehicles are coming.

These are the situations where you take it for granted that nothing wrong happens. But there are points where there is high chance of getting a severe damage due to least amount of preparedness.

There is nothing wrong in being extra careful and overthinking for a small thing. Your friends might laugh at you or make fun of you for being over-perfectionist, but when you see loses you have escaped, you will feel proud and lucky about yourself.

What trivial knowledge might save your life one day?

 

1. 
   If your house smells like fish for absolutely no reason, 9 times out of 10 it means that there is an electrical fire.
2. If you ever feel like someone is following your car take four right turns and eventually it will make a circle. If they are still behind you that means they are following you. Don’t drive home, just call the police and drive to the police station
3. If a service dog ever approaches you without its owner, follow them and do it quickly because potentially you can save someone else’s life.
4. If someone is trying to abduct you, fight back. Most abductors will just give up if they meet resistance. And whatever you do, don’t let them take you to another location.
5. If the tide suddenly goes out unexpectedly, run like you stole it, for higher ground.
6. If you’re ever charged by a moose, get behind a tree.. they have about a ten inch blind spot and they’ll lose you..
7. When people say to take an aspirin to help during a heart attack, chew the pill, don't swallow it whole. It gets absorbed much quicker.
8. If a person asks you for something in the street - a light, the time, whatever - always keep the person in your eyeline. So if they ask for the time, don't just look down at your watch. Raise your arm slightly so your watch is in sight.
9. If you are in danger or in need of help, in a public place, it's almost always a bad idea to just yell "help". It's more important to be specific. Pointing at someone and telling them to call 911 will be more effective. The Bystander Effect can be cruel sometimes.

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