National Safety Culture Change Initiative

This guide is for any firefighter, career or volunteer. Whether your department provides annual physicals or not, it will help your primary care provider better understand the physiological demands of firefighting and the resulting health risks research shows firefighters are ...

The Volunteer and Combination Officers Section (VCOS) and the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC), along with the Fire Service Occupational Cancer Alliance, the Firefighter Cancer Support Network (FCSN), and with support from California Casualty, have developed a poster of the ...

Report by the  Fire Protection Research Foundation (2017)

The next generation Fire Department Guide to NFPA 1582 Concise, readily-applicable, research-based information on the importance of a comprehensive fire personnel wellness program, educational resources and sample documents. Contents: NFPA 1582 Q & A General Fire Administration Healthcare Provider Risk/Benefit Manager ...

A Proactive Approach to Ensuring Mental Wellness Access the PDF version ePub for iBooks The goal of this report is to bring awareness about the fire and emergency services’ emotional and behavioral health problem and emphasize the importance of changing the culture. The ...