Accident Prevention

Focus on Safety All Year Long

The National Safety Council provides information on safety to use all year round. Info is organized by season, home, work, back to school, and holiday.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 Find in Accident Prevention.

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 06.25.25

Back to School Safety Checklist

Use this fact sheet to share some key tips that will help keep children safe and healthy throughout the school year.

🎙️Available in English 

📌 Find in Accident Prevention + Maternal + Child Health 

💡 Share with community partners. 

Added 08.14.25

VDH Child Passenger Safety Resources

VDH provides brochures, posters, and flyers about child passenger safety that promotes proper safety seat use for children.

🎙️Available in English + Spanish

📌 Find in Maternal + Child Health + Accident Prevention 

💡 Share at health fairs, with community partners.

Drive Smart Virginia Toolkits

Drive Smart Virginia cover many safe driving topics including bicycles and pedestrian awareness, occupant protection, distracted and driving under the influence, and many more. These a variety of resources including graphics, print materials, and media resources.  

🎙️Available in English 

📌 Find in Accident Prevention 

💡 Share on social media and in newsletters.

VDH Firearm Injury Prevention Toolkit

Use this toolkit to share firearm injuries.  Has three graphics that also come in 11x17 posters. 

🎙️Available in English

📌 Find in Accident Prevention

💡Share on social media and newsletters. Share flyers with community partners.

Added: 04.16.24

VDH Communicating About Firearm Injury and Death 

This document from VDH provides a reference guide for communicating about the difficult topic of firearm injury and death. It includes key messages, language guidance, and communications approaches.

🎙️Available in English

📌 Find in Accident Prevention

💡 Use this guide for best practices to follow when phrasing your communications efforts. 

Added: 04.12.24

VDH Firearm Related Injury Prevention

This resource from VDH includes firearm safety tips, information for parents and caregivers, and links to initiatives and partnerships.

 🎙️Available in English

📌 Find in Accident Prevention

💡Use this information to guide your outreach and media communications.

Added: 04.12.24

CDC Firearm Violence Prevention

This resource from CDC provides information about CDC’s approach to prevent firearm injuries, plus data on national firearm homicide and suicide trends. 

 🎙️Available in English

📌 Find in Accident Prevention

💡Use this information to guide your outreach and media communications.

Added: 04.12.24

Fireworks Safety

This toolkit from the National Fire Protection Association has handouts, infographics and social media images to help educate about firework injuries. 

🎙️ Available in English

📌 Find in Accident Prevention.

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 06.25.25

Leave Fireworks to the Experts

This National Safety Council webpage has tips and facts about fireworks safety. 

🎙️ Available in English

📌Find in Accident Prevention.

💡 Use in social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 06.25.25

Safe To Sleep Campaign

The Safe to Sleep® campaign offers a variety of free materials, including booklets, handouts and infographics, to help people learn about safe infant sleep and share safe sleep information with friends, family, and others.

🎙️Available in English + Spanish + Arabic + French

📌 Find in Maternal + Child Health + Accident Prevention 

💡 Share at online, with parents & community partners.

Back to School Safety Checklist

Use this fact sheet to share some key tips that will help keep children safe and healthy throughout the school year.

🎙️Available in English 

📌 Find in Accident Prevention + Maternal + Child Health 

💡 Share with community partners. 

Added 08.14.25