The Safety Council of Southwest Louisiana has been serving the Southwest Louisiana area for over fifty years. Originally, the Council was a chapter of the National Safety Council.  In 1999, we gave up our chapter status in order to better serve our customers and contain costs. 

Today we are charter members of the American Association Of Safety Councils (AASC) and the Association of Reciprocal Safety Councils (ARSC). These organizations continue to grow each year with the simple objective of providing service and training to our respective communities to achieve accident prevention in the home, at work and at play.

Over the years, our community service projects have grown and we added a broad assortment of programs to support our local area courts and our Juvenile Justice Program.

 In 1992, at the request of local industry, the council began providing orientation and training for local area contractor employees with the prime objective of containing costs and providing quality programs.  This led to formation of the Association Of Reciprocal Safety Councils.  ARSC has since grown to include over 25 councils across the United States and continues to expand the training base, and training programs to serve our industry with millions of dollars of savings each year.

Late in 2005, the Council added Solutions Employee Assistant Programs as a new business and service to our customers. Solutions EAP is a stand-alone business providing services to a cross section of businesses in Southwest Louisiana. The professionals of Solutions EAP have been integrated into our existing seminar base for providing such programs as our Supervisor Development Program, a newly developed Employee Intervention Program and Who Moved My Cheese plus several others. By joining the Safety Council, which is a non-profit 501C3 corporation, Solutions EAP is now able to offer services and benefits not available in the past.

In 2006, the council joined with two other Gulf Coast councils to form Safety Council Solutions, which provides a tabletop audit of contractor safety programs.  This process replaces a similar process previously offered by NCMS who decided to focus on their core business.

In January of 2007 the Safety Council will began administering a reciprocal Background Screening Program as a service to local Industry. 

Through our 2007, and beyond, the Safety Council SWLA will maintain all existing services and add new programs to meet the needs of our customer base.  Whenever a need is identified, the Council will develop and provide quality, cost effective seminars, training and consulting to local business and the community. Site orientation development is now a cost effective benefit offered by the council as well as developing and managing the Human Resources training and data management for local business.