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In PHQP_0015 Hazard Mitigation, Jeff explores the importance of supporting risk-taking in children's play by effectively mitigating hazards. He outlines three hazard categories and shares five practical mitigation strategies. Episode Video Watch Now: PHQP_0015 Hazard Mitigation Episode Notes Hazard Understanding Danger, Hazard, And Risk 3 Hazard Categories 5 Hazard Mitigation Strategies Early Learning Physical Hazard Rating Matrix Field Book And Field Notes Notebooks The Hazard Mitigation Transcript Welcome to the Playvolution HQ podcast. Thanks for pushing play. I'm Jeff Johnson on with the show. So I'm out for a walk the other day, as I want to do, and I walked by the local playground where I've seen kids doing things I've told stories about on this show before. And they're, the playground is, excuse me, full of cardboard. And I've got no idea where it came from. But they, the kids had a bunch of cardboard boxes, maybe somebody moved in the neighborhood or anything. And they had some of them, the ends open, and they were, they were put together to form a maybe 12 foot long tunnel. And a couple kids were building a suit of armor or robot or Iron Man suit or something out of them, covering themselves. And a couple kids were using hunks of cardboard to try to surf down the slide. And some kids were rolling around, hiding in the cardboard, and on and on it went. And continued my walk, came back an hour and a half later, walking by going the other direction. And just a couple kids headed for the, heading for the nearby dumpster with the last bits of cardboard. So somehow the cardboard showed up and was a wonderful play material for a couple hours. And then they tidied up and went on about their day. So that was, that was kind of great. I liked, liked seeing it. It reminded me of my, my well-spent childhood. So let's get into this episode. Topic one, hazard mitigation. And so we talked earlier about risk and how risk is important. How there are, are basically four types of risk. There's physical risk, which is what we consider the one we spend most of our time on. There's emotional risk, there's social risk, and there's cognitive risk. And one of the things that we want to do, if we want to support risk-taking, which we should, is to get better at mitigating hazards. So let's go through a little review of the terminology first. So danger is something that may cause harm. Again, my favorite example, a kitten. A kitten may cause harm. Hazard equals a danger not easily seen or predicted. So the, the teeth and the claws of that little kitten are the most dangerous parts. And so those are the hazards. Those are what makes the kitten dangerous. And a risk is something you can observe, evaluate, and choose. So if you're four and you've never held a baby kitten before. A baby kitten before? Isn't that kitten as a baby cat? Maybe baby kitten is redundant. Anyway, if you've never held a kitten before, you can evaluate that situation and decide whether you want to hold the kitten or not. Where hazard mitigation comes in is you, as an adult, informing that child about those potential dangers that they might not see or anticipate. You can say, okay, you can hold the kitten, but you need to be, need to be aware they've got, they got sharp little teeth in their little mouths and they got razor blades on the end of their fingertips, and you've got to hold them carefully. And if the kitten gets scared, or if you grab them too hard, or you antagonize him, he might try to claw or bite you. And so that is an example of hazard mitigation. Hazard mitigation might also be wearing long sleeves when you're holding kittens for the first time, because long sleeves kind of protect your arms a little bit from, from kitten teeth and claws. And so those, making kids aware of those things is really what hazard mitigation is about.