How to use professional Safety Management techniques to assess your personal and family hazards based on probability, and severity. Including basic home safety, health, and lifestyle hazards.
Category: Podcast
Follow Indiana Jim's Video series, "Survival Stuff", in audio format. The best way to follow the podcast is to subscribe to the podcast RSS feed.
Threat Matrix
This video outlines the top ten threats to American life and freedom in the comings decades, and how to survive them.
Mental Survival
How people behave under high-stress survival situations is the most critical part of surviving. All the knowledge and equipment in the world will not save you if you panic, freeze, or make bad decisions. Recognizing how your mind reacts, managing unsafe mental states can be the difference between who lives and who dies.
Survival Water Purifies and First Aid Items
The best In my opinion) water purification devices for survival packs and kits. The best and most versatile medical emergency item for survival packs, and first aid kits.
Ten Principles of Survival: 6—10
The first five of my Ten Principles of Survival focus on mental preparedness and conditioning for managing both immediate threats and slow developing disasters. These principles apply to not only emergencies, but to life in general. All ten are covered in more detail In my books. and on the AmericanSurvivor.org website.
Ten Principles of Survival: 1—5
This is part one of a two part series covering the Ten Principles of Survival derived from 50+ years of studying how people respond to high stress survival situations. They are applicable to all levels of outdoor, and urban survival, as well as life in general. They are more thoroughly explained in my lectures and books published by Skyhorse Publishing. This is more important than any skills or equipment.
Survival Knives
There are lots of choices for survival knives, but I have one "best in class" selection. I also cover pocket knives, multi-tool, and exotic, Rambo survival knives as well.
Survival Containers and Clothing
The best (in my opinion) cups, containers, and canteens for survival packs and outdoor operations. The best and most necessary clothing items for survival packs. Survival rule #1: "Never get wet!"
Survival Lights, Fire-Starters, Stoves, and Food
My recommendations for "Best in Class" emergency lights, fire starters, pack stoves, and survival food. I focus on small, cheap, reliable, easy to use sources only. There are bigger fancier sources of light, and bigger stoves for home emergencies, but I focus on the minimalist foundations of preparedness here.
