About the Helmets.org site and organization
Summary: Helmets.org - All about our site and organization.
Who We Are
Welcome! We are a bicycle helmet advocacy program explaining helmet technology to consumers and
working to improve helmet standards. Founded in 1989, we are a small, active, non-profit consumer-funded program with a
volunteer staff. Our volunteers serve on the ASTM helmet standards committee and are active in commenting on actions of
the Consumer Product Safety Commission. We provide a Toolkit of materials for helmet programs and a periodic email
newsletter, both free.
We are funded entirely by consumer donations. We
maintain our independence by never accepting funds from the industry. We are a 501(c)3 non-profit, so your contributions
to us are tax-deductible. We spend 100% on program expenses, nothing on administration or salaries and nothing on fundraising.
We do not use cookies at all on this site. No tracking, no ads, no rude pop-ups urging you to subscribe to our newsletter. We
don't have any interest in selling your data. We are not an affiliate advertising site and do not profit from your clicks
on any of our links. In a typical year our secure website serves 2 million pages to more than
700,000 distinct users. We have been up continuously since 1995 with better than 99.9% uptime.
We believe in helmets but know that they are a secondary safety measure and urge that primary measures such as safer
roads and education programs for riders and drivers get high priority to resolve our current road safety crisis. Until
our roads are reconfigured taking a safe systems design approach the appalling daily carnage will continue.
- Our FAQ: can you trust this site?
- Where we came from, what we do and how, with our Mission Statement.
- Our Program
- What we hope to accomplish this year.
- Our 2024 year in review
- We had a good year.
- How to support our work!
- We are funded 100% by consumer donations.
- What we need today
- Graphics, crossword or teaching skills?
- How we run our secure site
- Our philosophy, design, page hits and more.
- Promises, promises
- What we hope to add to our site some day.
- Some nice words from the Consumer Reports blog.
- BHSI's founder named Safety Crusader.
- Swart receives ASTM's Hulse Memorial Award
- Recognition for BHSI's work on helmet standards.
- Swart receives ASTM's Award of Merit
- Highest ASTM award for standards committee work. Photo, Swart on right..
- How to cite our pages
- Citing us in footnotes for scholarly papers.
What we can do for you
- Our publications
- Newsletter, pamphlets, list of laws, more.
- Our email newsletter
- The Helmet Update, our periodic newsletter. You can subscribe!
- Media guidance
- Quotes and a few rules on quoting our site.
- Webmaster guidance
- You can quote us but not borrow our pages.
- Our contact information
- Web, email, telephone, postal mail.
- Teachers, educators, scout leaders, workshops, rodeos.
- Resources, statistics, pamphlets, videos, lesson plans.
- Bike shop owners - We encourage you to use our pamphlets.
- We provide free duplicating masters.
Search our site
- Search our site.
- Finds anything on our site.
- A Map of our site.
- A page by page map in outline form.
Links
- Helmet links
- Links to other helmet-related pages.
- Head Injury Survivors
- Links to people who have survived a head injury.
- Graphical pages for young riders
- Want graphics? Comics? Superheroes?
- Our links policy
- We keep our links closely focused on helmets.
Translate our site
Google Translate will translate our whole site for you into over 100 languages. Just click on this link to translate and on the blue word "English" at the top. A drop-down table lets you select your language, and all of our other pages will translate as you click on links.
- Problems With Our Site?
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Here is a page of tips on problems. We care about making our content accessible!
- Virus or spam message apparently from BHSI?
- Here is how a spoofer sent you that message. Virus-bearing messages do not originate here! We never send anything to anyone from "info@helmets."
- Sending us an email:
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Please use this link for comments or questions. We like to hear about what you wanted to find here.
- You can donate to support our work:
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Please use this link to donate. We are consumer-funded and do not accept donations from the industry, including bicycle shops. We spend 100% on program expenses,
nothing on administration and nothing on fundraising.
- Our contact info:
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Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute
4611 Seventh Street South
Arlington, VA 22204-1419 USA
Voicemail: 703-FOURateSixdashZero1doublezero
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