Ambulance Crash Test Methods

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ; United States. Department of Homeland Security
• Description:
  Keeping Emergency Medical Services Workers Safe on the Job
  
  NIOSH and the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate partnered with other federal agencies and the ambulance manufacturing industry to conduct ambulance crash testing to reduce and eliminate crash-related injuries and deaths to Emergency Medical Services (EMS) workers in the patient compartment. These dynamic crash tests contributed to the development of 10 test methods published by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).
  
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  Ambulance-INFOGRAPHIC-051617.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Traffic Ambulances Emergency Medical Services Motor Vehicles
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20050579
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:979542eeb14c047c5e7bc2c6312273e6a51c5979d9bb0d55eac780d61521e7158a18d88e37b5aa9cc8ea68b8ce38aac3f7adfa914f2a2245387205889b98d84f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/108687/cdc_108687_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 850.15 KB ]