Free English Class! 🧯🚧⛑️ Topic: Safety! (Lesson Only)

Well hello and welcome to this English lesson about safety. We

live in a world where sometimes things are nice and easy and

safe but sometimes there are things that are dangerous. And

so as humans we've designed and invented a number of things to

keep us safe. Things that keep us safe when we're driving.

Things that keep us safe in the workplace. Things that keep us

safe as we go through our routine each and every day. So

in this English lesson I'm going to talk about all of

those things that that humans have invented in order to keep

ourselves safe as we go through our day everyday in this world.

And some of them are pretty cool. I find that human beings

are very inventive people. We have come up with some really

cool solutions for different types of dangerous situations.

So thank you so much for being here. Uh we'll get started now

on this lesson about safety. So one of the first things that

people say in the workplace and there's often signs in the

workplace. If you work somewhere where it's there's

the potential to be injured. Maybe you work in a factory.

Maybe you work somewhere where heavy machinery is driving

around. Um a lot of times there will be a sign that says safety

first. We say this in English because when people work in

those types of jobs. We want them to think about safety. In

the chat earlier someone mentioned that at their place

of work they have a safety meeting every morning. And the

first thing that gets said is safety first to everybody. So

if you work in a job where there is the potential to get

injured often you will have a safety meaning and there will

definitely be signs that say safety first which means always

think about safety. Um when you are working in a dangerous

place. So one of the things that is the most recognizable

in terms of safety is what we call a seatbelt. A seatbelt is

something that you put on when you get in your car. I have

been wearing my seatbelt diligently ever since I have

started driving a car before that when I was really young we

act had a car that didn't have seatbelts in the backseat when

I was a kid. That just seems really dangerous to me now. But

a seatbelt is something you wear in order to stay safe in

case you have an accident. Okay? So if you bump into

someone or go in the ditch or if you get hit by someone if

you are in a car accident the seatbelt will keep you safe.

And we've also added something called an airbag. An airbag is

something that deploys. We always usually just say the

airbags popped out but the airbag airbag will deploy when

the car senses that you are in an accident. Very rapidly the

computer decides that the car is in an accident and the

airbags will deploy and then you will have this cushion this

big airbag full of air as a cushion as you go forward. Now

they help keep you safe. But I hear that when they go off it's

not exactly pleasant. It's just better than not having one. We

also have something called first aid. You saw me in the

thumbnail wearing a a hard hat that said I think first aid

officer or something like that on it. First aid is training

that you get in order to help people who are injured. It

doesn't make you a doctor or a nurse. In fact you can get

first aid training just on the weekend. But it helps you with

cuts or scratches. Um it helps you if someone has let's say

someone is choking. You can do the high maneuver. That's where

you press here in order to get something out of their throat.

So first aid is training that you get in order to give a

little bit of help to someone who has injured themselves or

who has been injured. We have something called CPR as well.

Let me make this a bit bigger. CPR is short for cardio

pulmonary resuscitation. So many people who have their

first aid certificate will also have training in CPR. So CPR is

the ability to do chest compressions if Someone's

having a heart attack. You're trained on how to put I don't

know the name of the machine. Maybe Brent in the chat does

the machine where you they put two little pads on and then it

shocks you and it starts your heart again. Um they know how

to do mouth to mouth which is a way to get someone to start

breathing again. But CPR is what we normally call it. And I

actually had to look up the real meaning of cardio

pulmonary resuscitation. Because I didn't know what CPR

meant. Because we just call it CPR. We just say the letters.

And a lot of people will have a first aid kit. Even if you're

not trained in first aid you will most likely have a first

aid kit somewhere in your house or at work. A first aid kit has

some bandages in it. It has a variety of things that you can

use in case someone gets injured. So there will be gauze

which is like a type of bandage and maybe actual bandages and

those types of things. So Brett says G I don't know the name of

that machine. It's a defibrillator. Yes that's

definitely what it is. I don't know if I pronounced it right.

Defibrillator. There we go. Uh No you're correct. We have one

at our school I think. Um it's in a box. And on the wall.

They're more common now in athletic venues. We also have

what are called guardrails. When you drive along the road

there are places where the ditch is very deep. Or where it

would be bad if you went off the road because maybe there's

a lot of rocks or something. So someone decided many years ago

to invent something called a guardrail. Um a guardrail it's

not nice to hit the guardrail but it's better to hit the

guardrail than go and hit the rocks or go in the ditch behind

it. So these you will see in a variety of places along roads

in many countries whenever there is something hazardous or

a hazard beside the road they will often put up what's called

a guardrail to prevent you from going off the road. It's still

dense your car and you still need to get your car fixed if

you hit a guardrail but it's better than the alternative.

And we also have decided that going up and downstairs can be

dangerous. So we've added what's called a handrail along

the side. So a handrail is something you can grab on your

way up the stairs. Or on your way down the stairs. Uh in

order to kind of keep your balance in order to stop

yourself from tripping or falling down the stairs. You

can grab the handrail and use that as you go up and down. So

this is a bit of a repeat. I did a lesson a while ago on

construction and one of the things I talked about was

hearing protection. Uh it's important when you work in a

job excuse me. It's important when you work in a job where

it's very very loud that you wear hearing protection. Now

this can be just little earplugs that you put in your

ears. But it can also be these larger hearing protectors.

Which you would put over your ears. If you worked let say at

an airport if you were a baggage handler at an airport

you would probably wear hearing protection. If you ran a

jackhammer on a construction site you would wear hearing

protection to protect your ears because if you hear noises that

are too loud too often you can start to go a little bit deaf.

So it's always good to wear hearing protection. We've

decided that learning to swim is important but sometimes even

if you learn if you know how to swim you can get in trouble

when you're in deep water and so a lot of times there will be

a lifeguard when we go to the pool in our local town there

are usually two or three lifeguards who watch the kids

and the adults to make sure that everyone is doing okay.

That noone is struggling to swim or sinking under the

water. So often if you go to the beach there might be a

lifeguard or there might be a sign that says no lifeguards on

duty. Swim at your own risk. But most of the places where we

go to swim there there are lifeguards to help keep us

safe. I think you'll recognize this hat. I did talked about

this in a previous lesson as well. Um if you work somewhere

where there is the potential for something to fall on your

head or the potential for you to hit your head against

something hard you will most likely wear a hard hat. A hard

hat is made out of very very strong plastic and it if if a

if something fell on your head it just wouldn't hurt as much.

It'll hurt a little bit. So instead of getting injured

it'll bounce off the hard hat and you might be like oh wow.

Don't drop your hammer Joe. Um Joe's back by the way today. Um

and if you work at heights in Ontario Canada if you work I

think higher than eight or 10 feet in the air. If you're

working higher than three metres I think you're required

to wear a harness and to have that harness hooked up to a

safety rope. So the harness is what you wear on your body. And

then the safety rope is connected to some part of a

building. Like if you're working on a building and

you're cleaning windows or if you're putting a roof on a

house you will be wearing a harness. So that's the part you

put on your body. And you will be connected to a safety rope.

So that if you slip or if you accidentally step the wrong way

and you trip it the safety rope will prevent you from falling.

The harness and the safety rope will keep you from falling. If

you play sports or even if you work certain jobs you might

have elbow pads or knee pads or shin pads I know I wear knee

pads when I do certain kinds of work on the farm. If I need to

go down on my knees and work on my knees for a long time I will

wear knee pads. I know Jen when she plays volleyball will wear

knee pads. When you ride a roller when you ride a roll

when you ride a skateboard you will probably benefit from

wearing elbow pads and knee pads in case you fall and even

wrist guards they have special wrist guards and then the

helmet. We had a question earlier about bike helmets. Um

there are motorcycle helmets. People wear helmets when they

go skiing. People wear a bike helmet. Um so definitely a

helmet is a great way to protect your head when you do

something where is the potential to get injured. And

gloves. Now gloves there's a lot of reasons to wear gloves.

Doctors and nurses wear gloves at the hospital to stay safe.

Um when they examine a patient who is maybe sick and has a

really bad disease. They might wear gloves so that they are

protected. Um I wear gloves when I work on the farm. So I

have work gloves that I wear when I work on the farm. If you

go outside in the cold you'll wear gloves so your hands don't

get cold. Um maybe and even in certain sports you'll wear

gloves. Baseball players often wear batting gloves when they

are up to bat so that they have a glove on their hands. So

gloves are a great way to protect your hands and to keep

your hand hands safe. And then there's the literal safety net.

If you've ever gone and watched what we would call a high wire

act or a tight rope walker sometimes they do it without a

net. But mostly they will have a Safety net or a net below

them. Now the word safety net in English we use in a lot of

ways. You could say this. I have $1, 000 in the bank and I

never spend it because it's a safety net. So you can use it

to talk about anytime you're keeping yourself safe in life.

Um you know maybe you could say I have two jobs. Um because I

have the one job. It's just a safety net in case I lose my

other job. So a safety net can literally be a net but it can

also be anything in life that protects you.

Sorry. I'm just laughing at Ty's comment. Um it's an

inappropriate comment but I'm laughing anyways. We have

created signs. Signs are one of the things we have created in

order to have safety in the world. Uh especially things

like street signs. But you'll also have signs that say things

like watch your step. If there's a an uneven surface. We

have stop signs. Uh we have signs that say the road ahead

is going to be curved. Um we have saw at school that say

please stay two metres apart. We have signs now that say

please wear a mask. So we have decided that one of the ways to

keep our everyone safe is to inform people of things that

are dangerous. So we have stop signs and all kinds of street

signs to do that. We've also created what are called

barriers. A barrier is something that we put up in

order to stop people from going in a certain direction. Let's

say the road was impossible because of the snow. Um not

impossible but impossible. You could not go down the road. The

police would put up a barrier. So they would put up a barrier

that says road closed ahead. Sometimes when you go to a

concert there's a barrier at the front of the crowd so they

can't get to the stage. So we've decided that barriers are

a good way to keep people safe to prevent people from going

places they should not go. Uh and in addition to that we have

decided that flashing lights. A flashing light almost always

means pay attention or warning or watch out. So when you see a

flashing light when you're driving in in the distance you

see a flashing light you know that it's if it's a blue

flashing light it's a snow removal vehicle. If it's a red

flashing and blue flashing light it's probably a police

officer. If it's an orange flashing light in Canada it's

probably construction. We have decided that flashing lights

are a good way to let people know that they need to pay

attention. Something up ahead or something needs their

attention. And then I don't know I didn't know what this

was called. I call it the backup beep alarm or the backup

beep. But many machines and trucks and tractors in Canada

and around the world now beep when they back up. So when I'm

in my classroom sometimes the garbage truck comes to our

school. And you can hear the garbage truck coming because

the garbage truck backs in and it goes beep beep beep beep I'm

not very good at making beeps. But a beep or a backup alarm is

something that we decided was a good idea. It warns people that

a vehicle is driving in reverse. Because the driver

maybe can't see everything behind them. So the beeping

alarm helps warn people that a truck or tractor or something

is coming. We don't have them on cars by the way. Just trucks

and tractors and small equipment and backhoes and

excavators and those kinds of We also have the universal

symbol or warning that you should pay attention to what

you're doing and it's called a pylon normally they're orange I

don't know why I picked a red one almost all the pylons in

Canada are orange but pylons are sometimes placed on the

street and it's to prevent people from going where they

shouldn't but also to guide people to go where it's safe to

go so sometimes when there's an accident they will put up

pylons but a pylon just a handy way to warn people especially

when they're driving. And we also have flares. So I've never

actually put out flares. But Jen and I were driving home the

other day. And it was very very snowy. It was a very very bad

snowstorm. And all of the sudden up ahead we saw two fire

trucks. Three police cars and there were cars in the ditch.

And the firemen was firemen by the way go to car accidents in

Canada. I don't know if they do in your country. The fireman

was putting flares on the road. So that there was something

very bright that people could see as they approached the

accident. We have crossing guards. So crossing guards are

people who in Canada I think they get paid. And they go to

schools usually in the morning and in the afternoon. That's

how it works in Ontario Canada. And they basically have a stop

sign that they hold up to stop traffic. So that children can

safely cross the road. Um and then they go home and they come

back at the end of the school day and do the same thing

again. So a crossing guard can walk right into the middle of

the street. And all needs to stop when the crossing guard is

there. So that's that's that's something that we have in

Ontario Canada and I think in many other parts of the world

as well. When you are approaching construction on the

road we have what's called a flag person but they don't have

a flag. They actually have a sign and on one side it says

stop and on the other side it says slow. And basically it's

because traffic can't go in two directions because they're

fixing part of the road but there is one lane so they let

cars go one way for a little bit and then at each end they

flip the signs and they let cars go the other way. So that

is called a flag person. If you have kids, if you have small

children, you'll probably be familiar with these. Um these

are called electrical outlet covers or outlet covers because

it's dangerous to stick things into an electrical outlet. Now,

we have more modern outlets now where they're always closed,

you can't push things in but a lot of the older outlets look

like this and if a child was to put something metal into those

holes, they might get electric As we mentioned electricity is

very very dangerous. So we have outlet covers that you can buy

and they're plastic and you stick them in all your outlets

when you have very very small children who are starting to

walk and starting to explore your house. We also have what's

called a baby gate. Uh we had several baby gates when our

kids were really really little. Sometimes parts of your house

are safe. But other parts of your house might be dangerous.

They're be stairs. There might be we have a wood stove in our

house and we didn't want our kids to go by the wood stove.

Um so often parents will buy what are called baby gates and

they will put them in doorways and it will stop children from

getting from one part of the house to another part of the

house. That's not as safe. Pillars and posts. So you can

see here that around the gas pump. There are white pillars.

Or white posts. You can use both words. I think I would use

safety pillar or safety post. And I'm sure in England and

maybe in the United States they have different names. But we

put these white posts and sometimes they're yellow.

Actually they're more commonly yellow here. So that you can't

accidentally drive into something. So you'll see these

at gas stations. You'll see these in places where there's

something they don't want people to accidentally drive

into, they'll put posts around it in order to protect it. And

you. At night many cities have street lights. Streetlights

bring a level of safety as well because the darker it is the

more likely people are to do things that are illegal. I

don't have any data on that whether that's true. But in my

mind when a city is well lit there is less I think there's

less crime. I think that's how it works. So a street light is

another thing we use in order to create safety. We also have

alarm systems or security alarms. Um so people in their

houses sometimes will have an alarm. But mostly people have

these at work. So your work probably when you go to work.

If you're the first one there you probably have to punch in a

code in order to get into your place of work. Um and then that

is a way to keep the building safe at night. So you have an

alarm system to keep the building safe. And we also have

car alarms. Now car alarms have two functions. If someone tries

to break into your car the car alarm will go off. But if you

oh I don't know my keys with me. Um if you look at a key fob

there's also a button that will make your car alarm go off. So

if you were walking in a parking lot and someone tried

to take your wallet you could push that button and your car

alarm would go off and maybe scare the person away. In our

houses we have smoke alarms. Uh we also call these smoke

detectors or fire well I'm going to say smoke alarm or

smoke detector. We also have CO2 detectors to detect carbon

monoxide. CO 2 carbon dioxide. Yeah interesting. Carbon

monoxide detector. CO2 detector. Now I'm pretty sure

it's a carbon monoxide detector. Don't quote me on it.

But we have alarms in our house to warn us if there is fire or

if there is smoke. Um and some buildings not homes but some

large buildings also have a sprinkler system. So that if

there is a fire water will simply start to shoot out of

the nozzles in the ceiling and it will put the fire out. A

good way to keep you safe but if you're in the building you

will be safe and soaking wet at the same time. And of course we

have fire extinguishers. On our farm we have three fire

extinguishers. Um in our school I think there's a fire

extinguisher in every hallway. Um we have a fire extinguisher

in our kitchen. It's just a good idea to have a fire

extinguisher at least one even if you live in a small

apartment. Just in case you have a small fire you have a

way to put it out very very easily. Sunglasses. So the sun

doesn't necessarily damage your eyes. But certainly sunglasses

are great because they help you see better when it's really

really sunny out. So hopefully you have a nice pair of

sunglasses to wear when the sun is high to kind of keep you

protected a little bit from the sun. Um it's not a big deal if

you don't have them. But certainly if you are driving on

a sunny day in the winter when the sun is coming into your car

and the sun is bouncing off the snow. It's a good idea to wear

sunglasses to stay safe. And of course if you're doing anything

where you want to protect your eyes you will wear safety

goggles or eye protection. This is a very common thing to wear

if you are building something in a wood shop out of wood. Or

if you're working somewhere where things could fly and hit

your eye. You will definitely wear eye protection. And then

we have yellow vests and orange vests. Although these means

something else in France now when people are upset they

protest wearing these vests but often if you work somewhere

where you need to be highly visible. When you work

somewhere where you want people to be able to see you you will

most likely wear a yellow vest or an orange vest. And it will

have reflective tape on it as well. When I drive by a

construction site when they are doing road work or road

construction. Everyone is wearing a yellow or orange vest

because they want to be very very visible. So it keeps them

safe by making them highly visible. And of course when you

cook something in the oven you can't take it out with your

bare hands. You have to wear an oven mitt. The oven mitt keeps

your hands safe when you are taking something hot out of the

oven. Sometimes when you go to the vet when we take Oscar to

the vet he has to wear a muzzle. Oscar does not bite

people. But Oscar doesn't like the veterinarian. Oscar doesn't

like getting needles. So when he goes to the vet we put a

muzzle on him so that he can't bite people. So definitely a

muzzle is something that sometimes you put on a dog to

prevent that dog from biting people. Sometimes on your phone

you get an alert. I actually got an alert last night. Um we

have something in Canada called Amber Alert. Sometimes when a

child goes missing all of our will buzz and ring and it will

say amber alert looking for a car fitting this description

child missing sometimes you get a weather alert on your phone

and it says dangerous weather in the area so sometimes you'll

get an alert which is kind of a warning telling you that

something is is happening or going to happen that might be

dangerous or that you need to know about. And then of course

masks. Masks we all wear masks now when we go out in public

but a long time ago before the pandemic masks were something

you wore in order to filter the air if you were working

somewhere that was dangerous. So you would wear a mask in

order to protect your lungs so that you could filter the air

when it came in and breathe a little more easily.