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Description:This blog is part of a series for NIOSH’s 50th anniversary highlighting research and prevention throughout the Institute’s history.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has a long history of working to protect firefighters. Firefighting is an inherently dangerous and vitally important occupation. The United States Fire Administration reported that 1,955 firefighters died in the line of duty from 1998-2019. In addition to injuries and deaths occurring on the fireground, firefighters are at risk of cancer and other illnesses. NIOSH has multiple comprehensive projects and programs that aim to improve firefighter health and safety, including those that focus on personal protective equipment, and wildland firefighters.
In 1998, Congress recognized the need to address the national problem of line of duty firefighter deaths and funded NIOSH to implement a firefighter safety initiative. NIOSH created the FFFIPP to conduct independent investigations of firefighter line of duty deaths (LODD) with a specific focus of identifying key contributing factors and developing recommendations that if implemented can help prevent deaths and injuries. A decision flow chart is used to determine which investigations to undertake. The cooperation of the involved fire department is enlisted before beginning an investigation. Investigations are divided by cause into medical events and traumatic injury LODD. In the 23 years since the program began, the FFFIPP investigated approximately 39 percent of all firefighter deaths and conducted 769 investigations (443 traumatic and 326 medical).
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Content Notes:Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program (FFFIPP) -- Medical LODDs -- Traumatic Injury LODDs -- FFFIPP Report Recommendations -- Consensus Standard Contributions -- National Firefighter Registry (NFR): Understanding and Reducing Cancer -- Firefighter Resources.
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