Safety Moment – Scouting for Food Safety
As our scouts work to help others by collecting food, let’s be sure to keep our scouts safe. Here are some safety tips:
- Use the Buddy System. Scouts traveling in Pairs is the best Practice of all.
- Utilize Parents, Adult Leaders, and Adult Staff.
- Wear Your Uniform. It clearly says who you are and what you are doing.
- Inform the Public. Make sure the Scouts can clearly identify who they are and what they are doing on the property if asked.
- Set up routes that are doable. Short and quick. They can always come back for more.
- Have a sign in sheet and a sign out Sheet to keep track of the groups that are out.
- Have a Home base. This gives people a place to come back to. Make them Check in before leaving.
- Follow Two Deep leadership if youth will not be with their own Parents.
- No riding in vehicles unsafely. Truck beds, the back of hatch backs, minivans with doors open are just asking for disaster. Wear Your Seatbelts.
- Watch out for traffic.
- Be aware of Dogs.
- Set up routes where major streets will not be needed to be crossed.
- Don’t eat any of the food that is collected.
- Never go inside a person’s house. EVER!
- Drive with your Flashers on.
- Check bags over before picking them up. Be sure they are items that we are taking.
- Always follow and use The Guide to Safe Scouting
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