"Every Second Counts: Plan Two Ways Out!" Infographic
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“Look. Listen. Learn. Be aware. Fire can happen anywhere,” Infographic
“Look. Listen. Learn. Be aware. Fire can happen anywhere,” works to educate people about three ways they can reduce the likelihood of having a fire—and how to escape safely if they have one. Customize this flyer with your logo to promote fire safety situational awareness.
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Alive on Arrival: Tips for Safe Emergency Vehicle Operations
This flyer provides information on the basics of emergency vehicle and roadway operations safety - including the roles of drivers, passengers, and the officer in charge.
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Critical Health and Safety Issues in the Volunteer Fire Service
The volunteer fire service has its own distinct issues related to health and safety. This report identifies resources, provides references, suggests tools, illustrates best practices, and establishes goals and objectives for each issue to help departments improve firefighter safety, well-being and survival.
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Download order form PDFElectronic Cigarette Fires and Explosions in the United States (2009 - 2016)
Fires and explosions caused by e-cigarettes are not common, but their consequences can be devastating and life-altering for the victims. The main cause of the fires and explosions is failure of the lithium-ion batteries. Learn how e-cigarettes work, about recent fire and explosion incidents, and why the e-cigarette/lithium-ion battery combination presents a new and unique hazard to users.
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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.
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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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Download order form PDFEmergency 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.
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Emergency Vehicle Visibility and Conspicuity Study
This report analyzes emergency vehicle visibility and conspicuity to improve roadway operations and vehicle safety to all emergency responders with an emphasis placed on passive visibility/conspicuity treatments.
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Emerging Health and Safety Issues Among Women in the Fire Service
This publication contains resources and recommendations that address long-term and emerging health and safety issues faced by female firefighters and EMS responders.
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Download order form PDFLooking 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.