the SAFE house is a fun-filled personal safety fair featured with
interesting activities including mini games, exhibition showcase, product
selling booths and self-defense workshop. It is a three days event with
canopies built at the Canteen 1 Concourse area as to create a well-balanced
atmosphere, and provide an extraordinary experience for audiences to attend a
college event. The main purpose of the SAFE house is to ensure that audiences can be able to
receive and learn of the important information and knowledge regards to
personal safety issue in a joyful and memorable way.
There are a lot of
exciting activities going on in the SAFE house. It is undeniable that the coolest
game in the
SAFE house was the
Oculus Rift! It is a virtual reality headset
that enables 3D movies as well as a 360 degree viewing experience. Audiences
who are interested in experiencing social safety scenario will be wearing the Oculus
Rift that offers them an amazing experience to be in the situation. The
scenario was taken at
a nightlife district of Kuala Lumpur, it is to let them witness about the bad
things and incidents happen during nightlife, specifically to show them the unimaginable dangers can be happened when they are
socializing.
Another
mini game “Are
you the next one?” that allows audiences to answer questions regarding
to personal safety campaign by throwing the ping pong ball to the correct
answer that stick on the board, then the crime cases on the board would
decrease if they had the correct answers. The purpose of this mini game is to
test audience’s general knowledge and gain awareness of personal safety issue.
The
crime cases significantly decreased in
these days by gaining a X mark as indicated audiences had the correct tips from
personal safety, and they could be able to prevent themselves from being the
victim of crime.
Additionally,
“Watch
your back” booth has presented an unique way of spreading information to the
audiences. The booth decorated as a Tarot booth as indicates that the problems
from audiences can be solved. The booth is a counter where audiences can seek
for their personalized personal safety tips by telling the witch about their
biggest safety concern that they are keen to know more about. In regards to the
questions that audiences had, he or she had given a sticker with the most
applicable safety tips tailored for that situation. The concept was to provide
a more detailed guideline for audiences by offering practical tips for them to
avoid serious incident from happening.
Besides,
an attractive area that gave information and details regarding personal safety
issue to the audiences is the exhibition showcase that displayed rich message and
facts as it is the precedence all along for letting audiences receive and
absorb knowledge of personal safety issue.
There
is a personal
safety product selling booth. Audiences can be able to buy personal safety
product, pepper spray and usage and features will be introduced to them. It is the original trusted brand
for personal defense sprays and has made a continued commitment to provide
consumers total peace of mind for personal, home, and business protection.
the SAFE house has been offering
them the tips and solutions to avoid dangers they may face in their later in
life. This event, the main objectives is to ensure that students are aware of a
range of safety issues and to encourage them to take necessary steps to
safeguard themselves and others. It aiming to educate students on how to stay
safe in variety of situations, not only about safety within the College, but
within the wider community.
by
Foon Ho Ying
Students of Bachelor In Public Relations (Honours)
Faculty Social Science, Arts and Humanities
Tunku Abdul Rahman University College
Faculty Social Science, Arts and Humanities
Tunku Abdul Rahman University College