What is a Hazard?

According to Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, hazard is a thing that can be dangerous or cause damage. Another good definitions will be anything generally  that can hurt you or make you ill.

In our daily life, we are face with different types of hazards and we hardly noticed them. There different types of hazards ranging from the one  in the office,  while driving,  at home or even while we are sleeping.

We deal with hazards in our life every day walking across busy streets, driving and even staying at home. Generally, we sometimes take note about these situations because we’ve learned from an early age how to deal with everyday hazards. Our past experiences and training by parents, teachers and coaches made us conscious of some of these hazards. Governments install traffic lights and pedestrian crossings to prevent us from hazards but are we conscious of them? Car manufacturers install safety equipments, but do we learn how to use them?. You might have taken driver’s training, but you may not aware on how to recognize, assess and control hazards found in the workplace. This blog will take you through this and back it up with daily occurences in our life.

Everything about hazards

This blog is inspired by the death of my late son who lost his life while swimming. This blog is started to keep his memory alive. By his death, I realised there are uncountables numbers of occurences in our daily life that are hazardous to us and yet we hardly noticed. Take his own case as an example, my usual practice is to drop him in his school every morning while I am going to the office, and ask him to take walk to another junction not far from his school but close to our house and take a transport back home, but unknown to me, as I was informed later on, that his usual practice is to branch in company of his friends in a dam to have a swim. On this particular day, he was unlucky, he drowned.

There are so many hazardous associated with school children, this is one of them, I should have ask him to always wait for me to come back and pick him instead of allowing him to go home by himself. Parents or would be parents should learn from this mistakes, take your ward to school personally or by the driver, and pick them back the same way.

So this blog will from henceforth start blogging on hazardous related matters hoping that visitors to this blog will have one or two things to gain.

Welcome on board.

twinstaiye.