{"id":61668,"date":"2019-10-28T15:40:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T19:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=61668"},"modified":"2019-10-28T15:44:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T19:44:48","slug":"think-twice-about-texting-and-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/10\/think-twice-about-texting-and-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Think twice about texting and walking"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a common sight on campus: people walking with their heads down while looking at their phones.<\/span><\/p>\n

They might be answering an email, texting a friend or scrolling through Instagram. Whatever the case, their eyes are busy scanning a screen and not looking ahead of them in the direction their body is moving. This distracted <\/span>behaviour<\/span> sometimes ends in a collision with another person, structure or vehicle, and may result in injury.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRecently<\/span>,<\/span> a person needed to get stitches in her head <\/span>from <\/span>walking <\/span>into a metal pole while looking at her phone,\u201d said Dan Pozzobon, Occupational Health and Safety Specialist. \u201cWe also had a close call with a person who walked out in front of a car at a crosswalk without looking to see if it was safe to cross.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Although most distracted walking incidents aren\u2019t this serious, they\u2019re prevalent. They often result in a minor collision that isn\u2019t reported, or a slip, trip or fall, which accounts for 25 per cent of reported incidents on campus, making it the No. 1 reason why people at Brock get hurt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brian <\/span>Dzurban<\/span>, Pozzobon\u2019s <\/span>Occupational Health and Safety Specialist<\/span> colleague, acknowledges that it will take time for people to change their habits but hopes the next time they’re faced with the opportunity to text and <\/span>walk,<\/span> they’ll think twice.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>It seems easy and quick to <\/span>use your phone on the move<\/span>, <\/span>but an incident can happen in a second. If you must text or look at your phone for any reason, stop walking, get out of the way of other people and then check your phone.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a common sight on campus: people walking with their heads down while looking at their phones. This distracted behaviour sometimes ends in a collision with another person, structure or vehicle, and may result in injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":61675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[3481,6648,8395,666,1985,101,3306,6052],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61668"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61674,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61668\/revisions\/61674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}