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Millions of Americans live with physical and mental disabilities. It is important to know your risk and build your fire prevention plans around your abilities.
Provides a comprehensive, step-by-step protocol for performing autopsies for firefighters and emergency medical service responders killed in the line-of-duty.
This report identifies trends in mortality and examines relationships among data elements on firefighter fatalities between 1990-2000. Using this analysis, better targeted prevention strategies can be developed to reduce firefighter deaths.
This document, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “Pandemic Influenza: Best Practices and Model Protocols” (2007), is intended to support the first responders’ efforts to provide the best possible service to their team and their community. In the midst of a pandemic, first responder leaders and operators should integrate this information with their existing planning efforts, knowledge, experience and training and apply it to their specific situation when appropriate
This report documents the causes of violence to firefighters and EMS responders. It explains the risk factors for violence and presents opportunities to reduce or prevent it.
This report looks at fire and emergency service cultural aspects that contribute to occupational illnesses, injuries and fatalities. It provides a basic understanding of the fire and emergency service culture, identifies individual and organizational behaviors that positively and negatively impact health and safety, and highlights focus areas for change by raising awareness about unsafe practices.
On Oct. 21-22, 2021, the U.S. Fire Administration hosted a national-level pandemic response listening session at the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, Maryland. The 2-day session provided an opportunity for the over 40 national stakeholder representatives to discuss the challenges and impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on fire departments, EMS, 911 dispatch telecommunicators and other response agency operations.
This manual contains recommended approaches to help your department manage organizational, operational and community risk. Highlighting specific challenges involved with incorporating a “risk management approach” into the delivery of fire department services. Focus areas include: defining risk, organizational risk management, operational risk management, managing information and community risk reduction.
Tankers account for the largest number of firefighter crash deaths of all types of fire department vehicles. This report examines the various causal factors that have been identified as problematic for tankers and their drivers.
Design recommendations for new and renovated facilities to achieve a safe and healthy work environment.
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.
