Blog About Safety

Do you live in an area where you can be affected by an earthquake? Are you sure?

If you live on the west coast of the United States, you are in one of those areas. There are other areas that could be affected by an earthquake as well. The center of the US has a fault that is not very active, but could do quite a bit of damage. From this website, you can find the faults in your area.

Do you know what to do when an earthquake hits? This is a link to a fun quiz to see if you know what to do in the event of an earthquake.

Are you prepared for an earthquake? Take a look at the 7 steps for Earthquake Safety, and be sure that EverybodySafe.com is part of your communication plan.

Families Could Have Been Notified Much Sooner

When the Continental Airline jet flying from Rio de Janeiro to Houston experienced severe turbulence, something as simple as wearing a seatbelt would have prevented dozens of people from being injured. When passengers were taken to a Miami hospital after an unplanned, emergency landing, EverybodySafe.com could have prevented worry and confusion among these passengers’ families.

If you are as severely injured as some of these passengers were, you are not in a state to communicate how to contact your family.  How are your loved ones supposed to know that you’re injured and in a hospital hundreds of miles away from where you’re supposed to be?

Many people are under the assumption that there is a special database of contact information for hospitals to pull from so that they can contact family in case of an emergency. In reality, hospital staff will not look through your cell phone or spend time searching the internet for whom to call.

EverybodySafe.com uses e-mail, text messaging and phone calls to make sure that everyone who needs to know will be informed in case of emergency. When you sign up, you’ll receive ID cards, stickers and dog tags with your EverybodySafe.com ID number. Hospital staff and emergency workers simply call the 800-number or log on to the Web site, and EverybodySafe.com will contact everyone on your list to let them know where you are and what’s wrong.

For the rest of the passengers on the flight who were not injured, EverybodySafe.com also offers an ‘I’m OK’ feature, where with the push of a button you can let your loved ones know that you are safe.

Remember that? Is that something you learned in pre-school? Do you still remember what it is?

When my son was in pre-school, they learned this important fire safety tip. When the class visited the fire department, my son at four years old, demonstrated how this was done to the class and the other firefighters. Today, twenty years later, I asked him what he would do if his clothes caught on fire. After the joke answer (which is always his first answer) he repeated the stop, drop and roll technique.

I asked the same question of some other people. This was not a think about this question, but rather – What would be your first reaction? Many thought that tearing off their clothes would be the first thing they would do. Others would be looking for water, and if there was any nearby, running towards it. Of course that is scary to think about since running would make things worse before anyone made it to the water!

This is why education, and continued education, is so important for all safety concerns. We need to learn this when we are young but we still need to have continued reminders so we remember it.

Accidents happen every day, in the car, at home or outdoors, They happen when we are doing the activities we do every day, either in work or play. Other types of emergencies happen daily also, illness and natural disasters as examples. What do we need to do to be ready for something like this to happen? Do we even want to think about it? The answer to that is no, most people don’t want to think about something bad happening. The best thing would be to get prepared, take precautions to stay safe, then don’t worry.

So what do we need to be prepared?

1. Have an emergency plan. Think about what you need in general and any needs specific to you.
2. Have a disaster/emergency kit. Get everything together and keep it in a safe place.
3. Have a way to notify people in the event of an emergency or disaster.

How will people you care about know that something has happened to you? How will you know that an emergency has happened to someone you care about? Sign up for EverybodySafe.com to be sure everyone is notified in an emergency.