Author: everymansecure
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Tip of the Week #8 – Always Know Your Exits
This week’s security tip – know where your exits are. Let’s hope you never have to evacuate or flee a building due to an emergency situation. But there are other reasons why you may want to know where all the exits are. Reasons to Know Your Exit Points Security Reasons to Know Your Exits While…
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Tip of the Week #7 – When it’s Critical, Have Two
This week’s security tip is summed up by the phrase two is one, one is none. The idea here is that for things that matter – items that are critical to your success or failure – you should always have a duplicate. A backup. This is an important part of contingency planning. If you only…
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3 Ways Your Health Affects Your Personal Security
Why is physical health important in personal security? Our health is important. I think we all recognize that as a factual piece of information, but too often only in the abstract sense. When it comes to personal security, your physical health and fitness is imperative. In fact, it could be argued that your physical health…
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Tip of the Week #6 – Be the last one in
This week’s security tip is to be the last one to enter your personal vehicle – specifically as the driver. When you are the driver you carry a certain level of responsibility for your passengers. Whether these are children, siblings, friends, or coworkers they are placing themselves in your care. By getting in the car…
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Empower Yourself: Target Hardening Strategies for Everyday Security
What is Target Hardening? Target hardening is a means of crime prevention. Any criminal, whether opportunistic or strategic, is always going to be evaluating their victims on a risk versus reward scale. They want the highest reward possible with the lowest risk applied to themselves. To achieve effective target hardening in personal security you need…
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Tip of the Week #5 – Carry a First Aid Kit
Do you carry a first aid kit? Have you ever been to the park with your kids and one of them scraps their knee or gets a splinter? How about on a car trip and someone gets a nosebleed? Or maybe you’re at the pool on a family vacation your toddler nephew cuts his toe?…
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5 Free Ways to Improve Your Personal Security
There are lots of ways to improve your personal security and safety, but many of the suggestions found online require investing a lot of money and time. Those items have their place, but the focus of this article is what the average person can do on an average day with an average amount of time.…
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Tip of the Week #4 – Pay more attention
Pause and Look Around Whenever you leave one location and enter another it is worth taking a moment to pause and look around. This gives your mind and body a moment to adjust to new stimuli, and also allows you to reorient to your new surroundings. It is also a good situational awareness practice. When…
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What Is The Cooper Color Code? Master Your Mental Awareness
Background The Cooper Color Code is an excellent model known in military and security circles that creates a standard around increasing levels of mental alertness – or situational awareness. Similar to other models that measure danger or threat levels this one uses color coding to identify different stages. However, instead of associating colors with the…
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Tip of the Week #3 – Never run it ’til empty
Have you ever found yourself on the way somewhere, perhaps running a little late, and you realize your gas tank is about to hit ‘E’? Anyone else get annoyed at having to take time out of a busy day to go to the gas station? This week’s security tip, like all the tips I give,…
