Safety Promotion Ideas
Organizations and Individuals
- Child care centers
- Community centers
- Malls
- Clinics and doctors' offices
- Local fairs, safety events and other events
- Swimming pools
- Sporting events, such as kids' baseball, soccer, and football games
Encourage and participate in local safety events
- Set up fireworks safety exhibit, booth
- Include fireworks safety in local safety events
- Contact local media to cover events that include fireworks safety
Enlist the support of local merchants as partners to:
- Post the safety tips at checkouts and on bulletin boards
- Distribute the safety tips handouts to customers
- Put the safety tips on their shopping bags
- Reprint the safety tips handout, with their name on it, for customers
- Contribute money to local groups to reprint the safety tips
Organizations
- Hold a news conference
- Get local radio and TV to cover fireworks safety
- Issue a news release to local media
- Prepare talking points for officials' speeches
- Include the safety tips in your newsletters, magazines
- Promote the tips and handout at your conferences and meetings; encourage attendees to do the same in their communities
- Put safety tips on your hotline, recorded phone messages, electronic bulletin board
- Prepare radio PSAs
Use the Internet
- Post a feature on fireworks safety on your web site
- Link to the CPSC web site's fireworks safety page
- Tell others how to get to CPSC's web site (www.cpsc.gov)