The document provides seven simple safety suggestions. The suggestions include using a cover name when ordering coffee to maintain anonymity, staying physically fit to increase safety abilities, being aware of one's surroundings for effective self defense, proper use of pepper spray for better control and accuracy, only sharing location information on social media after visiting a place rather than while there, a website for sharing online harassment concerns, and knowing safe havens to access if feeling threatened while traveling or out.

1. Seven
Simple
Safety
Suggestions

2. What’s Your Starbucks
Name?
Coffee houses use your name to
keep drink orders straight, but
then they call out your name for
the world to hear, and send you
out the door with your NAME
IN BOLD on the side of your
cup. Want to stay anonymous?
Embrace your inner ‘Homeland’
and try using a “cover name.”

3. Stay Safety Fit
When it comes to
staying safe, your
ability to push,
jump, and run
may make all the
difference.

4. Awareness + Preparation = Safety
Effective self-defense begins long
before a physical altercation.
Awareness of your surroundings,
awareness of your environment, and
awareness of what looks out of place,
prepares you physically and mentally
for what may come next. Being aware
and engaged with your environment
also promotes a confidence that is
often your first line of defense in
convincing a would-be-attacker that
they will have a greater chance of
success targeting someone else.

5. Pepper Spray
USE YOUR THUMB NOT YOUR FINGER
FOR BETTER CONTROL AND BETTER ACCURACY

6. Don’t “Check-In” until
you’ve “Checked-out”
Sharing your location on
Foursquare, Facebook, Instagram
and Twitter is great for letting
your friends know what you are
doing, but consider sharing this
information after you have
already been there & done that.
“That was a great pool party!”
not
“Just got to the pool party!”

7. DateSiteData.com
Have you blocked someone on one site only to have
them harass you on another?
Share your concerns with those who are dedicated
to the prevention of online harassment.
“Those Who Share Keep Others Aware”

8. Know Where to
Go And Know
How to Get There
A Safe Haven is a place
you know you can go to
be safe. Traveling for
business? Away on
vacation? Out for a run
in the park? Feel like
you’re being followed?
When in doubt, “Run to
a Restaurant.” They are
easy to find and easy to
access. They will also
have food, water,
phones. and a local staff
who can help.

9. Thank You!
Spencer Coursen
Security Expert | Threat Assessment Advisor
Vulnerability Reduction Professional
Questions/Comments?
@SpencerCoursen