NFPA introduces Safety Sense Curriculum
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has announced its new Safety Sense Curriculum, which stresses comprehensive injury prevention and is aimed at preschoolers through eighth-graders. The program is being developed in conjunction with Lowe`s Home Safety Council, a nonprofit organization founded to enhance the quality of American home life through better knowledge and practice of home safety, and the National SAFE KIDS Campaign, a nationwide movement to prevent childhood injury. The first curriculum modules are expected to be field tested during the 1995-1996 school year and will be generally available in 1997.
A technical advisory group consisting of injury prevention professionals with nationally recognized expertise in the areas of traffic injuries, drowning, fires and burns, unintentional firearm injuries, falls, and poisonings will provide research data, technical content, and an appropriate prevention message for each of the identified risk areas and review the curriculum lessons.
More information is available from the NFPA at (617) 984-7288.
