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Top Tips For Sledging Safety
When the snow falls, one of the most fun ways to enjoy the wintery weather is to play on a toboggan or sledge. While sledging or tobogganing is great fun and good exercise, it can be dangerous; however a few simple safety precautions can ensure that an afternoon's fun does not end in injury and a trip to A&E!
The following advice is given by RoSPA, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.
- Take time to consider your choice of sledging location – somewhere with deep snow and no obstructions such as trees, fences or rocks is the best.
- Avoid sledging near roads, pavements or water (whether it is frozen or not).
- Make sure you have plenty of room at the end of the run to slow down and stop.
- Walk up the slope first – it will help you spot hazards, realise how steep the slope really is, and check whether there is enough stopping distance at the bottom.
- Try not to travel head first.
- Consider other people who are using the slope.
- Only go sledging in the daylight.
- Wrap up warm, wear gloves and remember that skateboard, cycle and ski helmets and skateboard pads double up well for sledging.
- If you’re making your own sledge, think about the “what-ifs” if you were to crash – are there sharp edges which you could cut yourself on etc.?
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