The Home Safety Council is committed to reducing the risk of unintentional home injuries and actively supports legislation that aims to create safer homes across the country. Our public policy initiatives focus on safety issues that impact every state and community and focus on the leading causes of home injury.

Home Safety in Action

• HSC Applauds Senate Passage of the Fall Prevention
  Awareness Day Resolution
• President Obama Proclaimed September as National
  Preparedness Month
• FEMA Administrator Fugate Kicks Off National Preparedness Month
• More than 228 Organizations Circulate Letter to Congress Opposing the Use of Prevention Funds to Offset Other Legislative Proposals. View letters for the Senate and House of Representatives.
• Members of the Falls Free Coalition Comment on CMS Regulations for Older Adult Wellness Visits
• Home Safety Council Asks Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin to Make Injury Prevention a Priority
• Home Safety Council Co-Chairs the Collaboration and Partnership Work Group for the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition
• Home Safety Council urges Congress to fully fund the Safety of Seniors Act at $20 million for the CDC’s Injury Center in compelling testimony
• The Home Safety Council was one of more than 90 organizations to sign on to a letter to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services
• More Home Safety in Action Headlines
• Policy Advocates News Archive