Based on local data, the IPC targeted the census tracts with the highest per capita rates of house fire-related deaths and injuries, for smoke alarm installations through a program entitled Operation Installation. Operation Installation is a joint program of the IPC and Dallas Fire-Rescue, and involves door-to-door smoke alarm installation, with teams of fire fighters, fire prevention personnel, and volunteers from the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Each team is accompanied by a fire engine or fire truck, going down each block of the census tract.

As part of a worldwide movement to reduce injuries and save lives, Dallas was the first city in the United States to be designated an international Safe Community in 1996 by the World Health Organization (WHO). Led by the IPC, the city was re-designated in 2007 and 2011.

With funding from the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT), the IPC developed Give Kids a Boost - a school-based project that focuses on parental education and enforcement of the Child Passenger Safety Law. The goal of the project is to increase properly restrained booster seat use among children 4-7 years of age.

Since 2011, students at Sam Tasby Middle School have learned that “a picture is worth a thousand words,” through a PHOTOVOICE project conducted by the IPC. In collaboration with Vickery Meadow Youth Development Foundation and the Eagle Scholars program, the PHOTOVOICE project teaches 6th and 7th grade students participating in the Eagle Scholars Program how to tell a story through photographs and use those photographs to facilitate pedestrian safety improvements in their community.