Safety has to be a priority because to ignore it is to assume an unacceptable risk.

Get sick or injured in a survival situation and your chances of making it through unscathed are virtually none.

Safety Protocols

A protocol is a sort of agreement, custom, or obligation. ‘Safety’ protocols are previously thought out procedures, processes, or prevention’s, which are designed to better ensure one’s safety. Obviously these will vary with what you’re planning to accomplish versus the risks at hand, but common sense should reveal the potential dangers and corresponding preventative measures…

Not everyone has common sense though, and there’s little doubt that during a time of SHTF that many will injure themselves while not having taken preventative measures and precautions.
Safety Gear and Equipment

Just as various tasks require specific tools, there are also ‘tools’ for one’s safety. Safety gear.

Work Gloves

Again, following ‘SHTF’, there will be much more physical labor. Working with one’s hands. Work Gloves (lots of them) will be an enormous asset and essential equipment for injury prevention. I cannot overemphasize this.

A word of advice… do not bother with ‘cheap’ work gloves. While they might last a short while doing very lightweight ‘soft’ tasks, they are essentially useless for ‘real’ protection.

Work Boots

Another important bit of safety gear are quality work boots. I suspect that many people today do not have a good pair of work boots. Instead they rely on ‘sneakers’ as their casual wear – which provide little to no ‘real’ protection.

Good work boots should come up over your ankle and should be of a good fit. Proper fitting boots is a very important thing!

It is easy sometimes to be moving so fast that you expose yourself to injury without even realizing it.

Reducing that risk beforehand is key to making it sure you can make it through the survival situation you face in one piece and putting a premium on safety throughout is the only way to ensure that happens.

For more information on safety and steps you can take to ensure yours, please check out Modern Survival Blog.