National Safety Council, Lowe's News Release
For immediate release June 14, 2002 Contact: Joe Larkin 630-775-2303 or Suzanne McCoy Barr 336-658-5561 National Safety Council and Lowe*s Home Safety Council Provide Home Safety Checklist Top 20 For Home Safety Itasca, IL -Each year more than seven million Americans suffer disabling injuries and another 28,800 die as a result of injuries sustained in and around their homes. During the June 2002 observance of National Safety Month, the National Safety Council (NSC) and Lowe*s Home Safety Council have designated June 9-15 as Home and Community Safety Week. How can you be sure that your home is the safe haven you want it to be? Throughout the month of June, Lowe*s Home Safety Council is distributing a brochure listing the Top 20 For Home Safety, a checklist of twenty safety items that no home should be without. The list includes items such as smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, ground fault circuit interrupters, fire extinguishers, emergency response plans, flashlights, first aid kits, and many more. The list explains each item and tells how to use it to best advantage. For every item on the list that you can check *Yes,* you are decreasing the risk that someone you love will suffer a home injury or fatality. The brochures are available free in more than 790 Lowe*s Home Improvement Warehouses across the country and on Lowe*s Home Safety Council*s website. Lowe*s also offers a wide range of online safety resources including an interactive Home Safety IQ Quiz, home safety games for children, and free brochures. For additional home safety information and to order the free brochures online, visit <http://www.loweshomesafety.org>. In 1993, Lowe*s Home Improvement Warehouse founded Lowe*s Home Safety Council, a nonprofit organization, with the vision of creating safer American homes. Lowe*s Home Safety Council has invested more than $25 million to educate children, adults, seniors and families on how to improve the safety and security in their homes. NSC President Alan C. McMillan said, *Lowe*s has been an NSC partner in National Safety Month since 1995. We are pleased to have their support in raising awareness of the safety and health issues faced each day in homes across America.* For a comprehensive list of National Safety Month activities and safety tips, visit the NSC website at <http://www.nsc.org/nsm.htm>. The National Safety Council, founded in 1913, was chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1953. Among its objects and purposes is *to organize, establish, and conduct programs for the education of all persons in safety methods and procedures.* With 37,500 member organizations and 50 local and regional chapters across the country, the National Safety Council is the nation*s leading health and safety organization. # # #