Download Free Home Safety Education Materials

Fire Safety, Disaster Preparedness and Poison Prevention Tools for Adults

The Home Safety Literacy Project materials are an effective alternative to text-heavy safety handouts.

These free educational materials can be read and understood by adults at various reading levels, and easily integrated into your existing community outreach program.

Get Started Here:

Watch the Introductory Video
Download and print the Community Leader’s Guide
Download and print the Teacher’s Manual
Learn more about the Home Safety Literacy Project

NEW: Poison Safety Education Added to Home Safety Literacy Project

With support from a generous Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant, HSC has developed leader’s guidance to support inclusion of poison safety education in local Home Safety Literacy Project outreach and a comprehensive package of poison prevention education materials on CD and DVD. While supplies last this valuable new package is available to members of the Expert Network for just the cost of shipping and handling.

Download Free Teaching Tools on Poison Prevention

• A 5-Part, illustrated interactive slide show and quiz to teach poison prevention and how to call for help
• A leader’s guide
• Leader’s expanded resources
• A brochure to reinforce poison prevention messages
• Illustrated take-home tear sheet to reinforce poison prevention messages

Download Free Teaching Tools on Fire Safety

• An 8-Part, illustrated interactive slide show to reinforce basic home fire safety
• Pictograms to reinforce home smoke alarm installation
• Pictograms to reinforce home fire escape planning and practice
• An illustrated, high-interest, limited vocabulary reader about proper home smoke alarm installation, in English
• An illustrated, high-interest, limited vocabulary reader about planning and practicing home fire drills, in English
• An illustrated, easy-to-read version of the smoke alarm reader, in English
• An illustrated, easy-to-read version of the home fire drill reader, in English
• Illustrated take-home sheets to reinforce smoke alarm installation
• Illustrated take-home sheets to reinforce home fire escape planning and practice
• Home Fire Safety: Be Safe and Sound
• Two Ways Out: A Family Fire Drill

Download Free Teaching Tools on Emergency Preparedness

• A 4-Part, illustrated interactive slide show to reinforce basic home disaster preparedness
• Pictograms to reinforce home disaster preparedness
• An illustrated, high-interest, limited vocabulary reader about home disaster preparedness, in English
• An illustrated, easy-to-read version of the disaster preparedness reader, in English
• Illustrated take-home tear sheet to reinforce a communication plan for disaster preparedness
• Illustrated take-home tear sheet to reinforce emergency supplies for disaster preparedness

Download More Free Teaching Tools

• Two four-page newspapers with illustrated articles on home fire safety and disaster preparedness, for higher-level readers, in English
• Download the Home Safety Literacy Project materials in Spanish

You may print and duplicate these materials, and incorporate them into your other teaching materials and presentations. The copyrighting of the Home Safety Literacy Project materials is not intended to prevent use of the material for injury prevention purposes. You may freely duplicate the Project materials, including the addition of your agency logo. Changing the content is not permissible. Please use with attribution to the Home Safety Literacy Project, Copyright 2006, Home Safety Council.

Free kits are available to fire departments and adult literacy programs. Sign up for the Expert Network to receive your free kit . Read the Home Safety Literacy Project FAQs to learn more.

Additional Free Resources

Easy-to-Read Home Safety Handouts

Download home safety articles prepared in partnership with the ProLiteracy Worldwide newsletter News for You, and written at reading levels 4-6.

The Home Safety Council’s online Resource Center provides highly illustrated, easy-to-read home safety and disaster preparedness teaching tools.