2. INDEX
Women Safety
1. Awareness
2. Use Your Sixth Sense
3. Self-defense Training
4. Fight Back
5. Pepper Spray
6. Avoiding A Car-jacking
7. Travelling
8. Safety In Cyberspace
3. WOMEN SAFETY
Personal safety is an important issue for
everyone, but especially for women.
Here are 8 things you need to know about
personal safety.
4. 1. Awareness
Your first line of defence.
Most people think of kicks to the groyne and
blocking punches when they hear the term
“self-defence.”
5. Though, true self-defence begins long before
any actual physical contact.
The first, and probably most important,
component in self-defense is awareness:
awareness of yourself, your surroundings,
and your potential attacker likely strategies.
6. 2. Use Your Sixth Sense
“Sixth sense.” is a powerful subconscious
insight we feel about situations and people.
We all have this gift, especially women, but
very few of us pay attention to it.
7. Trust it and learn to use it to your advantage.
Avoid any situation or person, which does not
“feel” safe – you’re “sixth sense” is probably
right.
8. 3. Self-defense Training
It is important to evaluate the practical
usefulness of a women’s self-defense
programs.
Here are two tips:
a) Avoid martial arts studios .
b) The self-defense program should include
simulated assaults.
9. 4. Fight Back
Unfortunately, no matter how diligent we are
in practising awareness and avoidance
techniques, we find ourselves in a situation
that leads to a physical fight.
Many women worry that they will provoke the
attacker and make things worse if they
defend themselves.
10. However, aim for the eyes first and the
groyne second, and use the element of
surprise to your advantage – look quickly,
and mean it.
You may only get one chance.
11. 5. Pepper Spray
Pepper spray can be a very useful tool,
understand that there can be significant
drawbacks to its use.
Such as, it doesn’t work for everyone.
Even a face spray will only incapacitate 80-85%
of people.
12. Also, carrying it in your purse wastes time
and alerts the attacker to your intentions
while you fumble for it.
Never depend on any self-defense tool or
weapon to stop an attacker, instead, trust
your body and your wits.
13. 6. Avoiding A Car-jacking
Lock all the doors and keep windows up
when driving.
Most car jackings take place when vehicles
are stopped at intersections.
14. The criminals approach at a 45-degree
angle, and either pull you out of the driver’s
seat or jump in the passenger’s seat.
15. 7. Travelling
Violent crimes against women mostly happen
in the best and worst hotels.
Predators play the part of a hotel employee,
push their way through an open or unlocked
door.
16. For home safety, never open your door
unless you are certain the person on the
other side is sure, and always carry a door
wedge with you when you travel.
A wedge is often stronger than the door it
secures.
17. 8. Safety In Cyberspace
The Internet is educational and entertaining,
and it can also be full of danger if one isn’t
careful.
When communicating online, Always use a
nickname and always keep personal
information hidden such as home address
and phone number confidential.
18. Keep current on security issues, frauds,
viruses, etc. by regularly referring to “The
Police Notebook” Internet Safety Page.