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Your Gift Makes a Difference

Please help us change our nation's safety culture. Your gift to the National Safety Council can help us halt the increase in unintentional deaths in the United States, targeting science-based priority issues such as distracted driving, teen driving, older American falls and unintentional prescription drug overdoses. Read More

Radon: Know Your Risks

January is National Radon Action Month, an awareness event of the NSC and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The NSC's annual National Radon Poster Contest invites young people to help educate the public about the risks of radon gas, considered the nation's second leading cause of lung cancer. See the winning posters here.

"Safety Ambassadors" Promote Safety
Year-Around

Start the New Year right by helping people in your workplace and community stay safe. The National Safety Council's Safety Ambassadors program has what you need to be a resource.
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Holiday Estimates May Dampen Record Traffic Safety Year

Itasca, Ill. - Year-end holidays are a potential threat to the nation ending the year with a record low number of motor-vehicle fatalities. As travel increases at the holidays, so too does the incidence of high risk behaviors, like drunk driving. The National Safety Council estimates there will be 432 motor-vehicle fatalities during the Christmas holiday period and 445 during the New Year's holiday period. Read More

Studies Target Crashes in the News

Media coverage of car crashes may harm rather than help public health, according to two new studies published in the National Safety Council's Journal of Safety Research. Media tend to obscure the bigger picture of motor-vehicles crashes as a leading cause of American injury and death - and the number-one killer of young adults - by presenting car crashes as episodic, human interest stories, the studies conclude. Read More

Holiday Home Safety Tips