March is Brain Injury Awareness Month – four weeks each year when a number of government agencies, health care organizations, and safety advocates devote much of their attention to raising public awareness of traumatic brain injuries, commonly called TBI. One of the agencies spearheading TBI awareness efforts, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), hopes to call attention to these serious injuries with a unique campaign aimed at giving them a voice in the form of personal stories told by victims of TBI and their loved ones.

When cold, winter weather settles in, many people turn to space heaters and other devices for extra warmth or to warm chillier sections of their homes. Unfortunately, where there is heat there is often fire, and for that reason safety experts and organizations urge consumers to take extra caution when using home heating devices.

Spring has only just arrived and the weather is getting warmer, but already in the first few months of 2011 there have been 37 reports of drownings and 38 near-drowning incidents. In light of these alarming numbers and with the summer swimming season just around the corner, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is highlighting water saftey in hopes of saving lives. The agency has launched a public service campaign and provides safety tips at its website, www.PoolSafely.gov.

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. Each year, millions of people in the United States sustain a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) from falls, motor vehicle traffic crashes, collisions with moving or stationary objects, and assaults. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates TBI will affect 1.7 million people, resulting in 1.365 million emergency room visits; 275,000 hospitalizations, and 52,000 deaths every year. In order to bring awareness to brain injury and the lives of those affected by it, March is designated as national Brain Injury Awareness Month.

The holidays, celebrated all over the country with strands of lights and glowing candles, can turn from joy to tragedy in an instant if some key safety measures are overlooked. Grim facts about injuries and deaths are not what consumers want to hear this time of year, but it's important to understand how you may be at risk and what you can do about it.

Concussions in football aren't anything new, but a growing awareness of just how dangerous these seemingly innocuous head injuries can be may change the rules of the game on all levels. Yesterday the National Football League announced that it would immediately begin suspending players for "egregious and elevated hits" that violate games rules, especially those governing helmets.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) wants consumers to put safety in play if fireworks are part of Fourth of July celebrations. A new CPSC study indicates that in 2009 there were two deaths and nearly 9,000 emergency room visits for injuries resulting from fireworks related incidents. Most fireworks injuries occurred to consumers younger than 20 and resulted in the loss of a limb in many cases.

The energy industry fought federal regulators, safety advocates, and environmental activists for promoting policies that would enhance the safety of workers and reduce the risk of environmental harm before the massive Deepwater Horizon rig exploded last week and sank into the Gulf of Mexico.

Eleven oil rig workers are still missing after what appeared to be a blowout explosion on a Transocean oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday night. Teams of rescue workers continue to search 2,000 square miles of sea around the blast site, covering the area a dozen times by air and 5 times by boat.