Stay Safe

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Stay Safe
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Stay Safe

• College deaths 75 from unintentional injuries.
• Motor vehicle crashes kill more college aged
  folks than all other causes combined!
• Dying from injury in 1 year 1 in 765.
• Lifetime risk for dying from injury 1 in 23.
• 25 years old the greatest number of lives lost.

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5 Major Risk Categories

• Age
• (COD).
• Men are at a higher risk because they believe
  they are invulnerable.
• Alcohol
• 40 of Americans are involved in an alcohol
  related injury during their lifetime.
• 25 of fatal car and 50 of fatal motorcycle
  crashes each year are due in part to alcohol.

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5 Major Risk Categories

• Stress
• Distracted thinking takes presence of mind away
  from what we are doing.
• Notice a pattern of small mishaps and alter your
  stress level prior to having a biggie.

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5 Major Risk Categories

• Situational Factors
• Driving on a curvy, wet road with an old car and
  worn tires increases your risk.
• You have a great deal of influence on the
  situational factors you experience.
• Thrill Seeking
• Sky-diving, parachute skiing, etc. are examples
  that obviously increase your risk.

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Roadway Safety Automobiles

• 120 die each day
• 50 alcohol 40 speeding 25 rollovers.
• Teens cause 25 deaths a day.
• Annually 43,000 dead and 3 mil. injured.
• Leading COD 2-33 years.
• Falling asleep is 2nd only to alcohol when
  ranking reasons for accidents.

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Roadway Safety Automobiles

• Education and race play a part
• AA men higher risk of dying than white men.
• Whites w/o high school degree have the highest
  rates.
• No education past high school
• Less likely to use seat belts.
• More likely to drink and drive.

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Roadway Safety Automobiles

• College students
• Drink and drive more than non-students their age.
• We use seat belts more.
• Safety devices
• Air bags (front and side) are the best options
  for preventing death. But they do not lower your
  risk for serious injury, that is what seat belts
  do!

DQ 10 Does our drinking and driving rate get
equaled out by our seat belt rate?
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Roadway Safety Automobiles

• Bigger cars are not necessarily better.
• Larger cars keep you safer in an accident, but
  they also are a leading cause of accidents
  (rollovers).
• 75 of Americans use seat belts.
• The highest ever.
• 80 of us use seat belts if a law in our state.
• Seat belts save 9500 lives each year.

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Roadway Safety Automobiles

• Cell phones and driving
• If you use a cell phone while driving your risk
  of having a serious crash goes up 4X.
• Hands-free devices do not lower that risk. The
  mental distraction is the problem, not the
  physical manipulation of the cell phone.
• Illegal in some states.
• Women use their phones twice as much as men do.
• 2600 dead and 330,000 injured each year.

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Roadway Safety Cycling

• Motorcycles
• More risky than driving automobiles.
• Most common injury is a serious head injury.
• 26 times greater risk to die.
• Bicycles
• 750 1500 die annually.
• 450,000 587,000 emergency room visits.
• Men more likely to suffer injuries.
• 50 of the riders use helmets.

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Stay Safe at Home

• 25 million Americans each year are injured at
  home.
• Poison is the largest COD at home 17,000.
• Falls are the 2nd COD overall for Americans.
• High heels, worn shoes, poor lighting, slippery
  or uneven walkways, broken stairs and handrails,
  loose rugs, and objects left out.
• Fires need 3 parts fuel, heat source, oxygen.
• Fire safety escape plans, meeting place, and
  dont run w/o caution.

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Stay Safe at Play

• Recreation 750,000 injured annually.
• Thunderstorms kill 2X more men.
• Heat 1000 die annually.
• Cold 600 die annually.
• Drowning
• Lack of knowledge about the location.
• Alcohol was involved.

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Intentional Injury

• U.S. 1 in the world!!!!
• 300,000 die in the U.S. each year.
• Gun deaths 2 COD in the U.S.
• 260 injured daily.
• Men commit 9X more violent crimes.
• AA, Hispanics, White that is the order of
  prevalence for groups victimized by violent
  crime.
• Rape, physical assault, and stalking white vs.
  non-white is only a marginal difference.

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Intentional Injury

• Hate Crimes
• A crime against someone specifically because of
  their race, ethnicity, religion, sexual
  orientation, or political values.
• 50 of HC on campus due to race.
• Families
• Most common violent crime committed against you
  is from someone you know.

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Intentional Injury on Campus

• Violent crimes are increasing but still less
  than non-students of the same age.
• 9 of 10 crimes occur off campus.
• Males 2X more likely to be victimized by violent
  crime than women.
• Code of Conducts are one of the major
  administrative attempts to deter college crimes.

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Sexual Violence

• Sexual Harassment
• 66 of students experience it while in college.
• Undergrads 1 in 2.5 women 1 in 10 men.
• Professors (male) most of the offenders.
• Report to dean / department chair 1st climb the
  ladder if need be.
• 2/3 of professors report it towards them.
• 1 in 4.5 women raped over the course of their
  undergraduate degree.

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Sexual Violence

• Nonvolitional sex is sexual behavior that
  violates a persons right to choose when and with
  whom to have sex and what sexual behaviors to
  engage in.
• Sexual coercion peer pressure, threats of
  consequences for not doing something,
  intoxication, and insinuating obligation to
  someone else are all examples.

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Rape

• Statuary male over 16 and woman under the age of
  consent which ranges from 12-21.
• Acquaintance or Date the assailant knew the
  victim.
• 9 of 10 rapes are from someone they knew.
• Stranger an unknown assailant.
• 75 of rape victims are intoxicated.
• Under 21, white, live in a sorority house, use
  illicit drugs, drank in high school, and attend a
  college with a party atmosphere are at the
  greatest risk.

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Rape

• Research says women are not to blame.
• That means the way a woman dresses, how she acts,
  if the man paid for dinner/movie, have little to
  no effect on if she will be raped.
• Women that encounter sexually aggressive men are
  the ladies at greatest risk of being raped.
• Physical AND Verbal Resistance better than
  pleading.
• Bite, kick, scream, punch anything you can do
  using both physical and verbal options is better
  than asking him to stop or begging him to not to
  do it to you.

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Date Rape Variables

• Personality and Early Sexual Experiences
• Early sexual experience and the frequency of
  them, hostility toward women, irresponsibility,
  lack of social consciousness, and a need to
  dominate sexual partners are descriptors of
  rapists.
• Situational Variables
• Men that initiate a date, plan the date, and pay
  for the date tend to be more sexually aggressive.

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Date Rape Variables

• Rape-Tolerant Attitudes
• Fellas NO WOMAN WANTS/ENJOYS RAPE!
• I dont care what you saw on TV or what your
  buddy told you. Rape is wrong, bad and entirely
  unacceptable!

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Date Rape Variables

• Alcohol
• Best case scenario Men were more sexually
  aroused and misinterpreted the womans sexual
  cues, or lack thereof and the woman did not
  communicate her wishes as clearly as she would
  have if sober.
• Worst case scenario Men see a vulnerable target
  they want to take advantage of.

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Date Rape Variables

• Date Rape Drugs
• Illegal to use or have.
• No odor or taste.
• Wipes out memory of the night.
• Ladies keep an eye on your drink! Do not leave
  it with someone while you go to the restroom. Do
  not have a guy bring you a drink! Remember 90
  of rapes are from someone that knows the victim.

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Date Rape Variables

• Gender Differences in Sexual Cues
• Sometimes a smile is simply a polite smile!
• Fellas Ladies like to dress differently when
  they go out as opposed to when they are sitting
  next to you in Biology class. That does not mean
  they dressed that way to specifically attract
  your attention or that they are leading you on.
  Women can dress however they feel appropriate.

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Date Rape Variables

• Ladies There are many variables of rape you do
  not have control over. That makes the ones you
  do have control over even more important. Keep
  an eye on your drink! Dont go for a walk by
  yourself! Dont go see this other room by
  yourself. Understand how men will view you in
  terms of your actions and your dress. That
  doesnt mean dont dress how you want, it just
  means to be fully aware of how your signals may
  be interpreted.