What to do?!?

What to do?!?

 

Look around you – yourself, your family, neighbours, school, transportation, places, urban and rural areas, this country and the world – and identify issues or problems which affect the wellbeing of the individuals, the communities or the nature. An issue or problem may be acute, prevalent, local, chronic, imminent or potential one. Some product-related cases can be found on the following websites, but you may extend the meaning of "safety" appropriately

 

What to do for this project, was a long but eventful endevour. At first i concentrated my thinking on just household appliances around the house, i was getting nowhere fast as most things i thought of had mostly been done or i thought wouldnt even be possible to make.


So from thier i thought about what my friends, family and myself do. And that avenue lead to sports. Being surrounded by such an abundance of sporting activities, i thought i would try make a brand new or improve a sporting equipment to make the likes of it more safer.

SO the first thing i thought of was 'gym equipment'. So i started researching on gym equipment and found that majority of injuries are from dropping free weights. so i thought of a rack that would easily slot in the weights and wont touch each other so fingers wont get jammed. but then i found that something had been done, so that idea was completly thrown out the window...

From thinking hard of improving sporting equipment, i decied to avoid that cause of most sporting equipment have already been made to fit a lot of saftey regulations. BUT the thing is i didnt want to give up on sports.

 

so i typed in 'whats the most common injuries in new zealand' and from which linked me to  http://ipnanz.org.nz/page.php?p=102 NZ injury facts, from where i came across 'New Zealand injury prevention stradegy' http://www.nzips.govt.nz/ This page is the government's commitment to working with organistations and groups in the wider community to improve the countrys injury prevention efforts. And from over looking the first link of a report of NZIPZ Outcomes Report - June 2012 http://nzips.govt.nz/documents/nzips-outcome-report-june-2012.pdf i found a connection of the 'drowning criteria' and my sport of surf lifesaving/ and volunteer life guarding. SO i decided upon an avenue of life guarding.