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Unit

8 Safety and First Aid

Safety Education

Safety education is the education given to the individuals to make them aware
of different types of probable accidents and remain safe from those accidents.
Accidents may take place at the places like home, school, playground, street,

factories, etc. Therefore, safety education should be given to children to make them
aware and safe from different accidents.
First Aid

Accidents may take place even if we are working carefully. If we cannot provide first
aid to the casualties immediately, they may even lose their life. First aid refers to
the treatment given to the injured person on the spot utilizing the locally available
resources in order to improve the overall health condition of the victim and prevent
from further injury, lessen the pain, console and save the victim from probable

disability or death.

Safety Measures and First Aid

1. Sprain

Sprain is a painful injury in the joints of different parts of the body when the ligaments
get over stretched or broken up due to forceful twists and stumbles. Sprain generally
occurs at the joints of the elbow, wrist, knee, ankle, fingers, etc. Such joints may
swell, ache severely and are difficult to move.

Safety Measures
a. We should be very careful while doing household activities and playing games.

b. We should be careful while walking on the bumpy way and should not jump

roughly on such places.
c. We should do sufficient warm up before playing games.

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