This document provides tips and strategies for personal safety. It discusses maintaining safety in various environments like parking lots, homes, and at work. It emphasizes being mentally prepared through awareness of your surroundings and other people. Early warning signs of potential threats are outlined. Proper safety techniques are presented, stressing having a plan, watching your body language, knowing risks and escape options, and being prepared to defend yourself effectively if needed through targeting vulnerable areas or using common objects as weapons. The goal is to survive an attack by escaping unharmed.

1. Personal Safety
Presentation
Presented by:
Jason A. Scribner

2. Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss
Poor Performance

3. 80% of Self-Defense is Mental
Preparation.
 Environment
 The ‘Bad Guy’
 Yourself

4. THE ENVIRONMENT

5. Parking Lot Safety
 Light vs. Dark
 Check Your Car
 Not Near Vans
 Lock Car Door
 Keep Your Keys Out
 Fire, Honk, Act Un-
civilized

6. Home Safety
 Doors
 Garage Doors
 Lighting
 Shrubs
 Placement of Phones
 Safe Zones
 Alarm Systems

7. 80% of burglaries happen when you are
not at home, be careful when you get
home.

8. Work Safety
 Flat Shoes
 Visit or Show During
the Day
 Keep Hands Free
 Leave a Way Out
 Don’t Get Boxed In
 Have a Partner

9.  Keep Your Keys Out
 Who Knows Where
You Are?
 Never Go To a
Second Location!!!

10. THE BAD GUY
Donald Blom Alfonso Rodriguez Jr.

11. Distance

12. Early Warning Signs
 THOUSAND YARD STARE
 LONG PAUSES
 EYES TARGETING
 NERVOUS
 INSTINCT/INTUITION

13. Instinct/ Intuition.
 Fear
 Apprehension
 Suspicion
 Hesitation
 Doubt
 Gut Feelings
 Hunches

14. Instinct/ Intuition Cont.
 Curiosity
 6th
Sense
 Persistent Thoughts
 Physical Sensations
 Women’s Intuition
 Anxiety

15. These are usually 90% accurate!

16. Pre-Attack Postures

17. Studies show that convicts choose
people who are:
 Unprepared
 Unaware
 Insecure
 Easily Intimidated

18. YOURSELF

19. By having a plan you will survive!

20. Sanford Strong Study
Interviewed 200 viciously assaulted people who survived.
1. All had drawn the line.
2. They expected to get hurt.
3. They reacted quickly.
4. They focused on escape.
5. They would not allow themselves to be controlled.

21. What do you need to do?

22. 1. Prepare Your Mind
 Remain alert
 Be decisive
 Awareness increases your reaction time
 First 3 second greatly affects the outcome
 Keep an eye on your surroundings.

23. 2. Watch Your Body Language
 Posture.
 Peripheral Vision
 Survey Area
 Don’t Look Lost

24. 3. Know Risks, Options, & Objective

25. TECHNIQUES

26. K.I.S.S.
 Body Weapons
 Weapons

27. Body Weapons
 Targets
 Parts
 Use Your Voice!
 Turn and look at the person, but keep
walking.
 Get away and survive

28. Weapons
 O.C., Taser, Knife,
Gun, Kubaton
 Keys
 Pen, Pencil, Credit
Card
 Newspaper
 Anything in Purse

29. Is the fight over?

30. Thank you.