Security analyst and consultant, Dr. Kwesi Biney, has outlined practical daily safety and security tips to guide the public in preventing avoidable risks at home, on the road, and in other environments. The tips, which cover common lifestyle scenarios, are designed to raise awareness about simple but often overlooked actions that could save lives. Below are the full 16 tips as shared by Dr. Biney:
- Never go to bed with your car’s fuel tank empty (No fuel). In case of an emergency, what if your good neighbour isn’t at home.
- Never employ a nanny you don’t know her home. Some of them are child traffickers in disguise.
- Never go to bed with your phone switched off or empty (No airtime). Most emergencies happen at night.
- Do not stand or park your car under high tension cable especially when it is windy.
- Do not attempt to start your generator with your phone torchlight as the source of light. As this could cause explosion.
- Do not answer telephone calls in the kitchen when your gas cylinder is turn on.
- Endeavour to crawl under the smoke if a house is engulfed by smoke, as walking straight could cause suffocation. Smoke mounts up.
- If by mistake you swallow a fish bone, lick salt, and pull your ears while you cough out the fish bone.
- If you are in any traffic or ‘hold up’, ‘go- slow’ as in local parlance, if you must remain in your car while it is not in motion, always apply your central lock.
- Do not leave your children alone in the car with your dog or any pet.
- Nowadays, never enter a lift alone if you must. So many are already gone through this.
- Never leave your opened drink to take a call outside. It could be a plan to distract you. Many have been poisoned through this.
- Never rush out to turn off the tap on hearing its sound in the night. It’s a new robbery trick to wilfully bring you out. Remember, you didn’t leave it running before retiring to bed.
- When coming back home,either driving or being carried and you see strangers suspiciously loitering close to your entrance,do well to pass first before deciding on the next action.
- In case of fire from a gas cylinder,find a wet thick cloth and cover it,fire cannot continue without oxygen.
- Finally for now,in case of any emergency,keep calm and deligently observe,you will surely see an escape route,then act fast.
Be security conscious! Don’t be careless!!
