School Safety Projects

Safety Challenge Course

Practicing crawling low under smoke

This kit was created at the request of Alaska Health Fairs in Fairbanks as a safety education tool to be loaned out to Public Health Nurses in remote Alaska villages. The course consists of ten stations, each teaching a different safety lesson:

  1. Cooking Safely
  2. Crawl Low Under Smoke
  3. Call Emergency Number
  4. Stop, Drop, & Roll
  5. First Aid
  6. Emergency Preparation
  7. Buckle Up
  8. Protective Equipment
  9. Boating and Fishing Safety
  10. Workshop Tools
Students take part in activities that help them learn and understand important safety principles and behaviors.

Two Safety Challenge Courses were constructed and donated to Alaska Health Fairs in Fairbanks. Denali Safety Council has a third available for borrowing.

Safe Landings

Practicing parachute landing fall

Fairbanks safety personnel reported that children’s head injuries were becoming a serious problem, especially in falls from bicycles, skates, and skateboards. Consulting with Mickey Sleeper, a competition parachute jumper, we designed Safe Landings to teach the parachute-landing fall to children in schools. We’ve taught the technique to nearly 300 children and adults in Fairbanks, Valdez, and Anchorage.

Safety On Wheels

Yielding to traffic when merging lanes

This three-part course was developed for use at schools to teach children vehicle safety:

  1. Rules of the Road - Children ride an all-terrain tricycle along a road marked on the gym floor with orange reflector tape. They encounter a traffic light, stop and yield signs, turns, a tree, a merge lane, and an emergency fire vehicle and must give the correct signals and take the right actions.
  2. Impaired Vision – Older children and adults don Fatal Vision Goggles that simulate alcohol- or drug-impaired vision. The typical police sobriety test is then administered requiring them to walk a straight line, touch their nose, count backwards, stand on one foot, and walk weaving in and out of obstacles.
  3. Car Seat Safety – Chairs are set up to simulate the front and back seats of a car. Children are given a car seat and a doll – “your baby sister” – and asked to buckle the doll into the seat in the correct place in the car.