SafetyLit: Safety Literature Service

Welcome to SafetyLit, the online source for current and past scholarly research about all aspects of injury prevention and safety promotion.

Injuries have causes -- they don't simply befall us from fate or bad luck.

 To prevent injuries it is necessary to have information about the factors that contribute to their occurrence. With this information we may understand the options for prevention. Effective injury prevention requires a multifaceted, multidisciplinary approach.

 Information about injury occurrence and prevention is available from many sources. The weekly SafetyLit Update Bulletin provides abstracts of reports from researchers who work in the more than 30 professional disciplines relevant to preventing unintentional injuries, violence, and self-harm. Among these are anthropology, economics, education, engineering specialties, ergonomics and human factors, health and medicine, law and law enforcement, psychology, sociology, and other fields.

 SafetyLit staff and volunteers regularly hand-examine (issue by issue) more than 3400 current scholarly journals from many nations to find relevant material. Other journals are scanned at least once per volume.

 This information is maintained in a searchable database that contains more than 325 thousand items. 

SafetyLit makes an effort to provide the full range of positions on all subjects -- particularly controversial positions. SafetyLit does not endorse any position taken by any author of any article, report, or editorial that is included in the Weekly Update or the SafetyLit Archive database.