Yekaterinburg: Ural College of Business, Management and Beauty Technology, 2013. — 54 s. The textbook was developed in accordance with the curriculum and thematic plan of the study of the discipline "Life Safety", based on the experience of conducting classes with college students . The manual gives the concept of emergency situations, methods and methods of ensuring safety in emergency situations of a natural and man-made nature, the basics of survival under forced autonomous existence. The issues of survival in a variety of natural and climatic conditions and the factors that must be combated in order to survive in an autonomous existence are considered.