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Funders provide resources to community agencies to educate families about safety practices, furnish families with safety equipment, and assist families in their use.
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The Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) Unintentional Injury Prevention Program awards cooperative agreements and grants to state health departments, injury prevention units within large city or municipal health authorities, and universities to conduct community-based unintentional injury prevention programs.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/unintentional_activity/07_state_programs.html | |
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Funders support the work of local coalitions to track the incidence of preventable injuries and to devise strategies to reduce their occurrence.
Local policymakers adopt ordinances that specify safety standards and establish penalties for code violations.
Federal agencies keep consumers informed about unsafe products.
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| The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from more than 15,000 types of consumer products. It provides information on over 4,000 product recalls on its website, www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prerel.html. | |
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