Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute

Our Toolkit for Helmet Promotion Programs
Materials on Paper and CD or thumb drive

Summary: Our Toolkit for Helmet Promotion Programs, all available on the web from our Toolkit Page.

We have a Toolkit for Helmet Promotion Programs that includes some of the materials from our Toolkit web page on paper. We mail it to you free by postal mail, so we need a postal mailing address. The Toolkit currently includes:

Program Resources:

• Our list of helmet program resources has sources of helmet program info and materials, with an indication of what they can do for you. Free pamphlets, posters, videos, bookmarks.
• Funding sources.
• Sources of inexpensive helmets.
• Videos for helmet campaigns. Sources for them, including three that are free!
• Public Service Announcements on helmet safety.
• Child bike safety talk
• Workshop on Helmets.
• Developing A Children's Bicycle Helmet Safety Program: A Guide for Local Communities.
• A manual for helmet promotion programs included on the CD in the Toolkit (not on paper--it's too long!). Originally written by John Williams and the folks at Adventure Cycling, kept up to date here at BHSI.
• Promoting helmets in poor neighborhoods.

Basic Info

• IIHS Fatality Facts: Bicycles
• A simple page on helmets.
• Frequently Asked Questions about helmets.
• Costs of Head Injuries
• Using stickers on helmets.
• A warning: no helmets on playground equipment or climbing trees!.
• Kids speak out on helmets.
• US CPSC: Bicycle Injuries Seen in Emergency Rooms, 2013
• Summaries of medical journal articles.
• A summary of our Standards page.
• The helmets on sale this year.
• Our review of the most recent Consumer Reports helmet article.
• A chart and explanation of Mandatory Helmet Laws.

(Here is a pdf with all of the above.)

Pamphlets - Duplicating Masters

• A Buyers Guide to Bicycle Helmets.
• A Bicycle Helmet for My Child.
• How to Fit a Bicycle Helmet.
• Skateboard Helmets.
• NHTSA pamphlet: Prevent Bicycle Crashes.
• TransMadison's flyer with photos on How to Fit a Helmet.

Other Handouts

• Bookmarks to print out and cut.
• Getting your kids to wear bike helmets.
• Sources of helmet materials in Spanish
• CPSC pamphlet: Which Helmet for Which Activity?
• A word gmae that is a cahllnege to raed.
• Bicycle Helmet Tongue Twisters.
• A maze and a connect-the-numbers with One Smart Cat.
• A four page coloring book.

CD or USB drive

Our CD or USB thumb drive includes a full copy of our entire website and the WABA Safety Site. Pop it in your machine and any browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox will use it as if you were connected to our website. You don't have to be connected to the Internet. The links to anything on our site work as they would if you were viewing it on the web, but may be faster since the pages come from the disk.

DVDs

The videos below are described on our videos page.

• A DVD with the Canadian video "Bicycle Helmets 101"
• A DVD with the Safe Kids Video "Jello in a Jar."
• A DVD with "Professor Helmut on Helmets."
• Two DVDs with DOT bike safety and helmet safety videos, including Spanish versions.

Please let us know when you request the Toolkit if you don't need the videos.
You are welcome to duplicate any of the materials for school, community or any other non-profit use by a non-profit organization. (For-profits please check with us, except for local bike shops, who are encouraged to duplicate and hand out any of our materials.)

If you need the Toolkit, just email us. Be sure to give us a postal mailing address and tell us if you need it on CD or usb thumb drive.

We are usually quick to get the Toolkit out to you. If you can't wait for snail mail, here is the main printout that we send to you as a .pdf file. Add the pamphlet files above and you have it all except the DVDs.

If your system will not download the .pdf file, email us and we will send it to you attached to a return email.