Sometimes, you may encounter emergencies as you go through life. You don’t have to be as skilled as a doctor or a cop to resolve an emergency, but it does help to be prepared for such a situation.
There are skills that can significantly affect one’s survival and safety during emergencies. As such, you should know these skills and how to properly do them. In fact, they’re pretty easy to learn.
These are a few of the skills useful in an emergency.
Basic First Aid
There is no telling when an injury may occur. Maybe it isn’t serious enough to warrant a call to 911, or maybe something needs to be done while you are waiting for first responders. Either way, knowing basic first aid is helpful.
If you take a first aid course, you should learn things like how to move an injured person and when not to move them at all. You should also learn about how to care for wounds and burns and possible broken bones until you can get the injured person some medical attention.
Lock Picking
Lock picking is a survival skill that can help you through a variety of situations. Lockout situations, whether in the car or in the bedroom, can be easily fixed with the help of someone skilled in lock picking.
With a few tools, you can avoid property damage, especially the kind that may be difficult to explain to an insurance company. You can find discrete lock picking tools online that are easy to keep in a car or even on a tool belt.
Self-Defense
So maybe you do not have to be Bruce Lee, but knowing a little bit about self-defense is important. Some of the best self-defense is just being aware of your surroundings and how to get out of or evade a potentially dangerous situation.
And when that is not possible, having a few surprise tactics and defensive maneuvers may just save the day. You may be able to find self-defense classes through community organizations like the YMCA or a local gym.
Foraging
If you enjoy camping or hiking, it is good to have a knowledge of the natural world. In the event that you get lost or trapped somewhere, knowing which plants are edible and which ones are dangerous can be a lifesaver. It is knowledge that can help you to keep up your energy until help can arrive. You may be able to find classes on foraging or local plant life through a local university extension office.
Hunting and Fishing
Like foraging, hunting and fishing are also important survival skills that everyone should know. Even if you aren’t much of an outdoors person, being able to produce your own food in a pinch can mean the difference between life and death. This is especially true in a grid-down scenario such as a natural disaster. When you do not know when electricity may be restored and your local grocery stores are unable to get supply trucks, you will be responsible for feeding your family on your own.
If you are going to learn to hunt, you should also learn how to clean and dress your game as well. Anyone can kill an animal. Not everyone knows how to remove internal organs to prevent excrement from tainting the meat.
Make Things Easy for You
Human beings are faced with challenges and emergencies every day. Having a few survival skills can make like a lot easier. You can save yourself expensive repairs, care for injured people until help arrives, and even survive major disasters.
