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PamphletsSummary: How to get our pamphlets on paper, on disk or by email. Some from other sources, too.Our Own PamphletsWe provide our pamphlets free for non-profit reproduction and distribution in four ways:
Commercial users should contact us to ask about adding anything. You are not permitted to charge for our pamphlets. Local bicycle shops are almost non-profits anyway, so we encourage you to duplicate any of our materials to hand them out in your shop. Your copy of Word will treat the files a little differently from ours because it is almost certain that some of our default settings differ. The formatting of these pamphlets is necessarily tight. If you are using the Word version please be prepared to deal with little adjustments if you find that the page breaks are not right, for example, and you get three pages instead of just two (the front and back). You may need to fiddle with margins, page setup, or paragraph spacing, even though we have used standard fonts and spacing. Make sure you have selected the option "View - Print Layout." We also recommend using "File - Print Preview" to avoid doing excessive printouts while you are fiddling. We do not recommend making any of the text smaller to fit things in. It is small enough already to discourage many readers! Occasionally we get a message from someone whose browser will not download the file for them. If that happens to you, send us an email and we can send you the files attached to a return email. We can even send them to you by postal mail on a CD. If you need a CD, you may want to just request our Toolkit for Helmet Promotion Programs, including our web page on a CD, our pamphlets, and four DVDs with videos. We do not charge for the DVDs, CDs or the Toolkit. The costs are minimal and our consumer donations cover them.
US DOT Pamphlets on PaperThe Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has a website up with materials for teaching kids to ride safely, but it's hard to find, so use a Google search. They also have pamphlets and materials available for campaigns, and classroom materials for teachers. Here is a page describing most of them. And here is their Spanish language pamphlet on fitting. Their stuff is all free, but "in limited quantities." (50 pamphlets, 25 posters). Ordering on the NHTSA website is best. Or contact Safety Countermeasures Div., NHTSA, Dept. of Transportation, 400 7th St. SW, Washington, DC 20590-0001. If you know what you want to order you can fax an order directly to the warehouse: 202-493-2062.
Here is one sheet that NHTSA no longer distributes, but we think it's a winner. It's called "Prevent Bicycle Crashes" and covers both sides of a standard flat sheet of paper. You can download it to print out in either word format if your system allows downloading word files, or in PDF format if those work better for you. We include it in our Toolkit.
US Consumer Product Safety Commission PamphletsCSPC has a web page where you can order their pamphlets on bicycle and helmet safety. If you are viewing this page on our CD, we have included their Which Helmet for Which Activity pamphlet as a .pdf file. It is now a page on their website.State of California PamphletsThe California Department of Health Services has a very useful site up with many materials for school-based helmet promotion campaigns. They have lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations and one pamphlet in Spanish. We have the files on the CD in our Toolkit.City of Madison PamphletsThe City of Madison has produced a nice flyer on fitting your helmet. Here is the .pdf version for printing it out. We include it in our Toolkit. They also developed a pamphlet titled How Children See Traffic.Comic Book CharacterCaptain Super Safe is a 16 page comic in .pdf format with a story of lost helmets solved by Captain Super Safe. If printed out in black and white it would make a good coloring book. Unfortunately you have to log in to Facebook to access it.Snell Foundation's Snell Safety Education Center
3628 Madison Avenue, Suite 11 North Highlands, CA 95660
You can also call them. Their telephone number is (916) 331-5073. Or you can send them email at
info@smf.org.
First Wheels, First HelmetsThe Monroe, WI, Safe Kids Coaltion developed a program called First Wheels, First Helmets to encourage parents to put helmets on kids from the first wheeled vehicle they get, usually a tricycle. They put together this tri-fold pamphlet. It can be printed out in color or black-and-white and the photos still look good. For two sided printing, use the "flip on short edge" setting. |
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This page was revised on: January 1, 2022.
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