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    from drowning are children ages 14 and younger, and for children in this age group drowning is the 2nd leading cause of unintentional injury death. When you are out enjoying recreational water activities it’s important to be aware of all important safety measures. Sadly, it can take only 20-60 seconds before a drowning victim sinks underwater.

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    familiar with the “Location” setting on their phones, most of them are uninformed on how exactly this function operates (xxxx). Therefore, the first step to prevent consequences of geotagging is to educate users on its definition, function, and possible risks. Additionally, users must be made aware of where this feature is located on their mobile

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    Improving the culture of safety within health care is an essential component of preventing or reducing errors and improving overall health care quality. Patient safety is an important issue in global healthcare organizations. The impact of medical errors has been widely reported and discussed. In the united States of America (USA), the report of the institute of medicine” To error is Human has heightened public concerns about medical cause of adverse patients events in health care is medication errors

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    there is no way to be safe while riding, but with the correct safety gear such as helmets and leather layers could protect in accidents and falls. In the article “Mid-Life and Motorcycles a Bad Mix for Beginners: Highway Patrol Wants New Approach.” by Matt Bise he states, “So far in 2017 of the 63 killed (at the time of the meeting) two were age 20 or under, the rest were 21 and older; of those, 87 percent were not wearing a helmet or safety gear. Forty-two percent of the crashes involved just the rider”

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    Hospital emergency rooms which are placing the remaining nurses and the patient’s safety in jeopardy. The nurses left behind risk their licenses daily coping with the staffing crisis struggling to keep their patients alive and well. This is why I left the emergency room for a safer practice environment but find it a passion to look for a solution to the quick sand of non-magnet status survival. The issue of patient safety and nurse satisfaction can be a complex web of issues that can be improved by changing

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    According to the Cambridge Centre for Behaviour Studies, (n.d., P1) ‘Behavioural safety is the application of behavioural research on human performance to the problems of the safety in the workplace.’ Behaviour Based Safety (BBS) is an approach based on research of people’s behaviour (what they do and why they do it) and applies scientific theories into practical problems. (HSA0392, 2017) It is also described as a bottom-up approach (H. L. Kaila, 2008), because frontline workers help manager to observe

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    compels the bikers to always wear a helmet while on the roads for safety purposes because it is considered that they are at a significant risk if they do not have the helmets on. The position of the writer is that the decision of whether or not to have a helmet on should be left for the individual motorcyclist. He argues that one should have the freedom of choosing whether to wear a helmet because of the personal nature of the risk. The helmet law seems to be discriminative to the personal freedom

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    will throw the bar towards in an upward direction towards the operator’s head which can cause serious injury and worst case, death. If a person is not physically ready, he should receive a day and give others with better physical to do the job for safety reason. One must receive a healthy diet and exercise regularly to handle such job. A chainsaw operation can cause severe vibration and industrial deaf. That person will also be likely to suffer tinnitus where a sound can be heard from the inside of

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    Always look to be certain gas valve that make sure that is closed. If I'm serving lunch or snacks, I must ensure childrens safety and closed appliances near of them, the children must not touch any part of the stove, especially when they take lunch or snacks. Any pot should be out of reach of children, likewise with knives and kitchen tools. should stay out of reach for children

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    community is increasingly concerned about a critical patient safety hazard known as “alarm fatigue”. Alarm fatigue occurs when caregivers are desensitized by the frequent sounding of competing alarms from medical equipment, and other sources in a healthcare setting. Clinical alarms can be unintentionally overlooked as background noise, and drown out actionable warning signs that require vital clinical interventions. These alarm safety issues have led to unfavorable and, at times, even fatal patient

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