Multiply Safety provides the following strategic safety tips:

Be aware of safety. This includes the following quantitative parameters:

• Security Safety (Defence, Police, Intelligence)
• Health Safety (Illnesses, Diseases, Poison, Drowning, Diets)
• Systems Safety (Transport, Labour, Banking, Commerce)

1. Awareness includes impacts from financial, design (technology), production, standards and Human Resources. Awareness itself is quantified by recordkeeping. For example, the United States’ published injury & illness statistics show that approximately 6% of all employees were affected in 2008 (excluding fatalities) while in South Africa the deduction is made that 0.2% of all employees were fatally (unnaturally) injured in 2004.
2. Communicate safety experience and orientation in unbiased manner relating all facts. Experience shows that people tend to “hide” unsatisfactory exposure to safety. However, this causes a negative safety spiral whereas a positive spiral will occur with honest communication.
3. Set safety objective(s). Having objectives allows identification of preventive and disaster activities such as insurance practices, self defence training, safe transport selections and intelligence data collection.
4. Design your own safety. For example, when building a house, make sure it’s not built over a sinkhole, that you have alternatives should services fail and that the wind won’t blow the roof away. In addition design your own security arrangement such as developing a 3 level alarm system and make sure family members have GPS-based panic buttons.
5. Respond in safety situations by recording information. Take photographs and record conversations. Use this information later by comparing to actual outcomes for lessons learnt and to improve your own awareness. In addition record any contact with officials and maintain contact with witnesses should officials or offenders attempt to confuse them.
6. Maintain contact with colleagues, family, neighbours and lawyers wrt safety preparation and disaster management.
7. Prepare for anything you do and assess your safety before you do it. This is a principle taught in most professions but modern technology is quite “forgiving” leading to reckless misuse sometimes with serious results.
8. Improve supervisory skills and requirements to allow situational awareness and appropriate decision making. (A supervisor is not just a supervisor anymore)
9. Do safety surveys when possible. Taking a step back and reviewing your own relative to international experience, opens a reality view of events that will improve justification requirements for any corrective action you may be forced to take.
10. Train people and children with respect to safety precautions and disaster activities. Rehearse where possible. For example, children should know their emergency numbers and adults should know insurance procedures and camera limitations.