Question

Illustrate a brief distinction between accidents and risky behaviors and give one relevant example for each

Answer 1

An accident is something out of your control and is not something you would expect to happen as a result of your actions. Risky behavior is doing thing that you know can be potentially harmful on purpose. Accident example: You're driving a car at a safe speed, paying attention to the road, and wearing the seatbelt, but a dear jumps out before you can stop and you crash.  Risky behavior example: Purposefully disregarding the rules of the road, not wearing the seatbelt, and speeding.

Answer 2

Accidents are unplanned, unforeseen and unexpected events that have negative effect on all activities of the person involved in the accidents. It is an event that happened unintentionally and caused damages to the person involved while Risky behavior are behavior that are consciously or non-consciously controlled that has an uncertainty outcome.  

Further Explanation

There are types of accidents which include physical and non-physical.

• Physical accidents such as unplanned motorcycle collision, accidental kicking an object, accidental touching of object.
• Example of non-physical accidents are forgetting an appointment or a meeting, accidental delete of information etc. other types of accident include car accident, fatal accident and medical negligence.

Accidents can cause death, injury, loss of valuable items. It can occur anywhere such as homes, on the spot field, in the workplace and many more. Example of accidents is cars collision.

Risky behaviors are of different types and have major consequence to the person that is involved. For example  

• Alcohol or drugs use can have a negative effect on the overall health of the person involved.
• Having a sexual intercourse without the use of condom, this can result to unwanted pregnancy and could also result into sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV, gonorrhea.
• Tobacco use and many more.

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