Safer Party Tips
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Hey party people!
If you're going partying it's important that you know how to look after yourself and your mates and how to stay safer.
Here's some basic things you can do:
- Go partying with people you can rely on. Stick together, look out for each other & make sure everyone's safe.
- Tell someone you trust where you are going and what you're doing.
- Plan ahead and take all the stuff you need - money, water bottle, earplugs, sun block, phone card, whatever. Take condoms - sometimes things can happen on the night and sex is safer if you use them.
- Take clothes and shoes that suit the environment.
- Make times and places to check in if you get separated.
- Suss out safe, sober, straight drivers.
- Stash taxi money at home, and take back-up money just in case.
- Using most drugs (including alcohol) is risky and the safest option is not to use any at all. Buying, possessing or using most drugs, including alcohol (if you are under 18 years of age), is illegal.
- If you choose to use alcohol go slow, have water between drinks and eat snacks.
- Avoid mixing alcohol and other drugs! Effects can be really unpredictable and dangerous!
- If you chose to drink take your own and watch out to make sure you don't get spiked. Avoid drinking other people's drinks - you don't know what's in them and it's unsafe to share spit (meningitis & herpes cold sores are just a couple of germs or viruses you can get by sharing drinks)
- If someone feels sick don't leave them by themselves. If you feel sick ask someone to look out for you.
- Heat stroke is dangerous and can happen when people get too hot from the sun, hot environments and exertion. Avoid it by taking regular breaks from dancing, sipping 600mls of water (a Pump bottle) per hour, eating salty snacks and avoiding alcohol.
- If someone collapses or is unconscious call an ambulance (111) immediately!
- Rest and eat before and between partying.
- Let someone know if you decide to leave. If a friend leaves make sure that they have a safe way to get home.
For more information about safer partying see the "Lulu says..." pamphlet, or contact us at Health Action (03 548 2798).
RESPECT YOURSELF AND EACH OTHER.
BE NICE HUMANS!
Here's another site you might like: www.safety1st.org
If you're turning 18, here's how to get your 18+ ID Card
Check out the Taxi Safety Info Sheet.
Acknowledgements: The taxi safety image is a scanned copy of part of a leaflet prepared by the National Collective of Rape Crisis & Related Groups of Aorearoa and YWCA of Aotearoa - New Zealand.
The leaflet has been sponsored by the Road Safety Trust, produced with the assistance of Lintas Advertising New Zealand Ltd, Colourcraft Reprographics, Ltd, Bryce Francis Graphics and Spicer Cowan Paper.
