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Emergency Incident Rehabilitation

Examines critical topics related to emergency incident rehabilitation, including operational issues, human physiology, weather issues,technology, and addresses ways to better protect firefighters and other emergency responders through the use of proper protective clothing and improved tactical procedures.

Emergency Services Ergonomics and Wellness

Learn how to start an ergonomics and wellness program to help your department reduce job injuries, increase productivity, extend careers and send personnel into healthy retirements.

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Emergency Vehicle Safety Initiative

This report provides best practices and recommendations for safer emergency vehicle and roadway incident response. Topics covered include common crash causes and crash prevention, internal and external factors for improving response and roadway safety, vehicle design and maintenance, and regulating emergency vehicle response and roadway scene safety.

EMS Safety Practices

Create a safety culture within the EMS department. Learn how to develop a safety program that covers all aspects of EMS operations.

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Fire Data Analysis Handbook-Third Edition

The Fire Data Analysis Handbook (Third Edition, November 2021) was updated to include information on statistical analysis software and publications. It describes statistical techniques to turn data into information that fire departments can use to gain insights into fire problems, improve resource allocation for combatting fires, and identify training needs.

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Manuals and Reports

Looking for an older USFA publication? You can find it in the National Emergency Training Center Library. From the library’s online card catalog, enter your keywords and then under Limit by Collection, check USFA Publication.