When I’m out exploring there are the sorts of hazards you might expect. Rotten floors … you learn to check things out first and walk on the joists where you can. Heights … just be sensible and anything serious should use some sort of fall arrester. Glass and other sharp nasties … good shoes and a pair of leather palmed kevlar work gloves. Absestos … a P3-rated half mask. Security guards with dogs with sharp pointy teeth … stealth, cunning, and a fast pair of legs. All things I’m prepared for and carry gear to handle in my exploring pack, along with first aid kit, multi-tool, and a multitude of torches.
However, there is one hazard you can’t really prepare for … other people! Using the current UK vernacular, the groups of feral “chav” kids, and the gangs of “pikeys” stealing all the metal work they can rip out of a building with their stilsons, crowbars and gas cutting gear. A lone explorer with an expensive camera is an easy target for anybody given to aggression and theft, hence why they are the hazard I fear most and the one that I’m very careful to avoid at all cost!
Not that I’m in anyway advocating a more armed response but the following torches unsurprisingly caught my eye …