Food For Thought

SAFETY 1^ST

 What come into your mind about the word safety first? It is a well-known fact wrote Robert Louis Stevenson “that an immense proportion of boat accident would never happen if people held the sheet (rope) in their hands instead of making it fast”. The right way to manage a sailing boat is to hold the rope that regulates the sail in your hand. It is obvious that if you do not have the control on sailing boat, if you do silly mistakes, then you may be drowned.

                                            

                      

                       Many times serious accidents and deaths happen due to carelessness and laziness. People do not think about their selves and it is surprising how careless people are in very ordinary things. Silly mistakes can often lead to serious accidents like throwing away lighted matches, filling oil-stoves or lamps when they are lighted, running across the street in front of a motor car, jumping off a train when it is moving and throwing banana skins on the floor for others to slip on. These are some of the examples.

                                            

                          So try to avoid giving examples of foolish carelessness, set the motto in your life “Safety First”, use your common sense. Do not take unnecessary risk; keep your eyes and ears open. In a word be care full, for your own sake and for the sake of others. The word “Safety First” does not meant that we must never take any risk. Sometimes your life safety is not the important thing. It is only against unnecessary and silly risks that motto of “Safety First” is aimed.