The Button Battery Safety Initiative is a 501(c)(3) built by healthcare professionals after seeing the same preventable injury in children again and again: a button battery swallowed and lodged before anyone realized it was an emergency.

Button batteries belong in daily life. They power hearing aids, thermometers, keys, toys, and remotes. Our work is not to take them off the shelf. It is to make sure families, clinicians, and manufacturers treat them with the right safeguards.

BBSI focuses on 3 main goals:

Education

BBSI produces educational videos and flyers and takes that material into the community. We do direct public outreach and work through media so caregivers hear the warning before a child ever reaches the ER: how to store devices, check battery compartments, read labels, and act fast if a button battery is swallowed.

Institutional Collaboration

We collaborate with hospitals, WIC programs, the Florida Poison Information Center–Miami, other nonprofits and public-health groups, and businesses working toward a safer marketplace. The aim is to put prevention in front of families sooner, and to support companies ready to improve labeling, compartments, and design.

Button Safe™ certification

Button Safe™ is our certification mark for products that contain button batteries and meet a higher child-safety standard for compartments, labeling, and design. It is how families and retailers can identify products built with this hazard in mind — without treating the battery itself as the enemy.

A donation funds that pipeline: teaching the next caregiver, equipping the next clinic, and growing Button Safe® so safer products are the ones people actually buy.

Give today at any amount. Monthly gifts keep outreach and certification moving between campaigns.

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