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hand washing and wearing gloves when handling food and following specific guidelines
when lifting heavy boxes and working with heavy equipment.
School safety education consists of fire drills, earthquake drills, and school lock down
processes. These courses begin in primary school and are repeated throughout junior
high and high school. CPR training is a safety education course that is a requirement for
teacher, day care providers and staff, lifeguards and certain management personnel.

Safety education provides knowledge to the people. It provides guidelines to be safe in
workplace. We get knowledge of various safety rules and precautions to avoid risks at
home, office, school, play ground, workplace, etc.
Importance of safety education

Safety education helps us to avoid possible accidents to protect from physical and mental
trauma. The importance of safety education is given below:

i. Safety education helps people live a safe life.
ii. It helps reduce the rate of possible accidents.
iii. It helps people to save money by reducing possible accidents.

iv. It helps reduce deaths and casualties due to possible accidents
v. It provides knowledge to avoid risks and possible accidents.

Arrangement of safety measures

Human beings remain active from early morning to late night. We many meet accidents
anywhere whether at home, on the road, at school or playground. Therefore, we should
adopt safety measures to avoid possible accidents. We should try to stay safe where we
are present. We should try to keep ourselves safe on the road, school, playground, home,
etc. Here, we will discuss the safety measures that should be adopted at home, on the
road, at school and on playground in brief.

1. Safety measures at home
We need home to live life safely. However, various accidents may occur inside or outside
home if we do not adopt safety rules. At home, we have to consider various aspects like
proper management of electricity, water supply, kitchen, furniture, bathroom, courtyard,
etc. By adopting safety rules, we can avoid a number of accidents at home. The safety
measures that we should adopt at home are mentioned below:
i. We should keep household utensils and appliances in a proper place.
ii. We should keep weapons and sharp objects away from the reach of children.
iii. We should use weapons and sharp objects carefully.

iv. We should keep electric wires and repair the bare wires to avoid risk of getting electric
shock.

v. We should keep electric appliances away from the reach of children.

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