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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This publication contains resources and recommendations that address long-term and emerging health and safety issues faced by female firefighters and EMS responders.
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.
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.
