Safety Behaviors and Accident Prevention

Unsafe conditions threaten people’s health in virtually all environments, such as in traffic, at home, on the
job, and at the beach. These conditions produce huge numbers of illnesses, injuries, and deaths each year. In
most cases, these health problems could have been avoided if the victim or other people had used
reasonable safety precautions. Sometimes people don’t know how to prevent injury—as is often the case for
elderly individuals who become injured when they fall— but safety training can reduce these injuries.