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Responding to Dangerous Situations

This category brings together general principles for immediate, fast-moving and uncertain dangerous situations. Personal safety, distance, de-escalation and contacting professional help at an early stage take priority.

Bilingual title graphic about first aid for stab and cut injuries, showing an open trauma kit inside a modern public building.

Responding to Dangerous Situations

First Aid for Stab and Cut Injuries

Stab and cut injuries may appear minor while still being life-threatening. This specialist article explains effective first aid, from direct pressure and wound packing to tourniquets, shock management and emergency calls.

Bilingual title graphic on acting safely during a knife threat or attack, showing a night-time exit, an emergency-call phone and a first-aid bag.

Responding to Dangerous Situations

Acting Safely During a Knife Threat or Attack

A source-based distinction between threats and attacks, with research on reaction time and group behaviour and a clear treatment of environment, escape, last-resort defence and first aid.