Personal safety – why should we care?

Personal safety – why should we care?

This question may sound queer among other questions related to safety, since the imperative ‘we’ points to the subject of all safety concerns – people.


Perhaps for the majority of people in one moment or another, they have experienced bullying by friends, neighbours, co-workers, and even senior officials. Many a time, our parents or elders told us to avoid the harassers because they will outgrow their senseless behaviour. This kind of thinking has led to considering personal safety as something that does not concern oneself, and rather shift to becoming a victim, instead of protecting oneself and fighting for one’s rights.


To us, today, we are like an alcoholic who knows the consequences of taking alcohol but takes it anyway. Just as it is with us, it is also the same with them, they also depend on us. Thus, for the sake of those who depend on us, we cannot leave out our own safety for granted. We all know that in the process of working, we have actually developed a dangerous attitude where we ignore the safety gadgets by reasoning that nothing untoward will ever happen. This carelessness makes us pronounce personal safety as unnecessary.


Quite a number of us are stuck with the ‘nothing can happen to me’ attitude. Sadly, what usually induces people to become safety-conscious is when they give or receive a bad experience. Everybody, right from athletes such as divers, mountaineers among them comprehend and respect time and the need to prepare appropriately for a given exercise or adventure. If they have understood the importance of safety why can’t we equally do the same thing.


To some, personal safety may appear to be something else that they do not wish to have added to what they perceive to be difficult lives. But every one of us has people who accept us and whom we accept in the same way in return. On that basis alone, one has to agree to take up the habit of private protection for everyone’s sake. It is impossible to avoid risks altogether but being prepared for them means not that any particular risk will overpower us.


Therefore you should make sure that whenever you are outside you carry along with you the best quality gadgets from Safety Gadgets by Xboom.


Live safe!

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