Injury Prevention

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses the subject of safety in a variety of environments and details the different measures individuals can take to prevent harm and bodily injury to themselves and their loved ones. The paper makes a point of emphasizing prevention as the key to maintaining one's safety.

Introduction
Injury Prevention in the Home
Injury Prevention Workplace
Motor Vehicles and Natural Disasters
Conclusion

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"The reduction of fatalities and injuries is of the utmost priority to safety officials. To ensure the safety of the public, officials have worked diligently on identifying safety hazards that the public might not normally be aware of. For example, a majority of people consider their home a safe place. By and large this is true; however there are many places within the home that are actually far from safe. Virtually no area of the home is in fact, completely free from the potential for harm (Miller, 53). Some places obviously present the risk for unintentional injury; these include the bathtub. Thousands of injuries and sometimes even fatalities occur each year from someone slipping in the shower. Prevention is the key to avoiding injury in the home. For example, use of a simple bath mat in the shower can prevent unintentional injury by preventing the likelihood of injury at the outset."

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