The 60-page document is meant to assist responders in health care, public safety, utilities, construction, humanitarian aid, and cleanup services. NIOSH has launched an interim training program to ...

Long work hours, coupled with the high physical and emotional strain associated with emergency response and recovery operations, can prevent responders from getting enough sleep and puts them, and ...

On October 23, 2017, at 1900 hours a 31-year-old male volunteer fire fighter (FF) began a regularly scheduled weekly training session. The training was held at the county fire training center and was ...

"Our young adult participants have a variety of challenges and barriers to sustainable employment, such as a lack of education or homelessness, and this training program will provide them with a ...

The NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program has released the line of duty death report of a Indiana volunteer fire engineer who died from heart attack and cardiac arrest ...

Health care workers who routinely come in contact with hazardous chemicals lack training and awareness of employer procedures to adequately protect themselves from exposure, according to a new NIOSH ...

Two dozen firefighters and ten fire instructors will join researchers at the Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI) beginning Saturday to continue studying the effects of fire, exposure and ...

Blacksburg, Va. –– In the construction industry, respiratory disease, often leading to disability or an increased risk of cancer, is a major public health concern. Studies led by Deborah Young-Corbett ...

Each year, about 100 U.S. firefighters die and at least 80,000 are injured in the line of duty. Even though a 30-year overview prepared by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) reveals that ...

Before 1970, America’s workplaces were very dangerous. American workers regularly suffered lacerations and lost limbs. Shipyard workers died of asbestosis. Coal miners suffocated from black lung ...