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Safety

Knowing what to do before you need to know it.

33 cards

Money Sense0010

Insurance

A bet you hope to lose

Many people pay a small amount so that the few who need it get a lot.

I · You11 / 53
Money Sense0017

Phishing

The message that pretends to be someone you trust

A message pretending to come from someone trusted, to steal information.

I · You18 / 53
Body and Mind0019

The Stress Response

Your body's fire alarm

The body's automatic reaction to danger, real or imagined.

I · You20 / 53
Body and Mind0025

First Aid: Burns

Cool water, not butter

The first care given to a burn, before any doctor is involved.

I · You26 / 53
Body and Mind0026

CPR

The beat that saves

Chest compressions that keep blood moving when a heart has stopped.

I · You27 / 53
Body and Mind0027

The Recovery Position

One turn, one life

A safe position for an unconscious person who is still breathing.

I · You28 / 53
Ready for Anything0037

The 72-Hour Kit

Three days of self-reliance

A prepared bag holding three days of essentials for an emergency.

I · You38 / 53
Ready for Anything0038

The Heimlich Manoeuvre

The thrust that clears the airway

Abdominal thrusts used to clear an object blocking someone's airway.

I · You39 / 53
Ready for Anything0039

Fire Safety

Stop, drop, and the reason it works

Knowing what fire does, and what to do in the first ten seconds.

I · You40 / 53
Ready for Anything0040

The OODA Loop

The decision cycle that wins

A four-step cycle for making decisions quickly under pressure.

I · You41 / 53
Ready for Anything0041

The Bystander Effect

Why nobody helps, and how to break it

The tendency of a crowd to leave the helping to somebody else.

I · You42 / 53
Ready for Anything0042

Digital Etiquette

The new set of manners

The unwritten manners that apply to messages, posts, and calls.

I · You43 / 53
Ready for Anything0043

The Rule of Three

The presenter's oldest tool

The pattern that three items make and two items do not.

I · You44 / 53
Ready for Anything0044

Lateral Thinking

The problem is the frame

Solving a problem by questioning the rules nobody stated.

I · You45 / 53
Ready for Anything0045

The Scientific Method

The loop that built the modern world

A repeating loop of question, guess, test, and honest result.

I · You46 / 53
Ready for Anything0046

Healthy Boundaries

The line that protects both sides

A limit a person sets on what others may ask of them.

I · You47 / 53
Ready for Anything0047

Career Diversity

Most jobs are invisible from school

The range of work that exists, most of which nobody mentions.

I · You48 / 53
Ready for Anything0048

Technology Ethics

Should we, because we can?

Asking whether something should be built, not only whether it can be.

I · You49 / 53
Ready for Anything0049

The Rule of Threes (Survival)

Four numbers between you and an emergency

Four survival limits that set the order of what to fix first.

I · You50 / 53
Ready for Anything0050

Situational Awareness

The skill no one teaches and everyone needs

Noticing what is around before anything needs noticing.

I · You51 / 53
Ready for Anything0051

Curiosity

The skill behind every card in this set

The urge to find out, and the willingness to admit not knowing.

I · You52 / 53
The Digital World0055

The Password

Your weakest wall

A secret used to prove an account belongs to the person opening it.

II · The World04 / 53
The Digital World0061

Two-Factor Authentication

The second lock

A second proof of identity, needed even after the password is right.

II · The World10 / 53
The Digital World0067

Cyberbullying

Words that follow you home

Cruelty carried out online, where it stays searchable and does not close.

II · The World16 / 53
Your Country0076

Road Safety

The physics of speed

The rules and physics that decide who survives a collision.

II · The World25 / 53
The Networks0111

Settlement

The payment ends long after the receipt

The back-office step where money actually changes hands.

III · The Machinery08 / 53
When It Breaks0147

Catastrophe Insurance

Pricing a disaster before it happens

The business of putting a number on rare, enormous losses.

III · The Machinery44 / 53
When It Breaks0149

Normal Accidents

Some failures are built into the design

Failures built into a system rather than caused by somebody's error.

III · The Machinery46 / 53
The Networks0112

The Railway

A timetable is a safety system

The rail network, and the schedule that keeps trains off each other.

III · The Machinery09 / 53
How Things Get Made0127

The Supply Chain

One missing part stops the line

The chain of suppliers standing behind a single finished product.

III · The Machinery24 / 53
When It Breaks0150

The Early Warning

The cyclone did not get any weaker

The forecast, the siren, and the evacuation that has to follow them.

III · The Machinery47 / 53
When It Breaks0153

The Backup

Three copies, two kinds, one elsewhere

The rule that turns a lost device into a nuisance instead of a disaster.

III · The Machinery50 / 53
When It Breaks0155

The Investigation

Ask what failed, not who failed

The method of learning from an accident instead of punishing it.

III · The Machinery52 / 53

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