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Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program Evaluation: Volume I: Final Report [2006]
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2006/10/01
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Description:The purpose of this report is to document the findings of the evaluation of the Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program (FFFIPP). The FFFIPP is a program of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) that conducts investigations of firefighter line-of-duty deaths and formulates recommendations for preventing future deaths and injuries. NIOSH communicates the findings from FFFIPP investigations via publications and presentations, and through collaborative research and policy activities with partner organizations in the fire service. Publications include Line of Duty Death reports, NIOSH Alerts, Health Hazard Evaluation reports, and special documents such as NIOSH Workplace Solutions and the Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards.
The publications are disseminated to fire departments through the mail, e-mail, conferences, and other venues and are available on the Internet through the NIOSH home page. The NIOSH reports are produced in both hard copy and electronic formats, and are available via mailing lists or through the NIOSH website. About once a year, NIOSH sends a packet of five or six reports to all 30,000 fire departments in the United States. Summaries of the NIOSH reports are also published in fire service trade journals.
The purpose of this evaluation was to: 1. assess the effects of FFFIPP recommendations and information products on the safety knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of the nation’s firefighters; and, 2. identify possible strategies for improving the impact of the FFFIPP, including improvements in the approaches used by NIOSH to disseminate the findings from FFFIPP investigations.
The evaluation is based on data from two sources: (1) a national survey of fire departments and (2) a series of focus groups with frontline firefighters.
NIOSH issued several hundred recommendations during the first 5 years of the FFFIPP. Many of these recommendations overlap or duplicate one another. For this evaluation, NIOSH identified 31 “key” recommendations, 22 involving traumatic injury fatalities and 9 involving cardiovascular disease (CVD) fatalities. From this list, 17 recommendations were selected to serve as sentinel recommendations for the evaluation. The selections were based on frequency of mention in FFFIPP reports, specificity of the recommendation, and balance among the categories of safety recommendations. The evaluation focused on the impacts of these sentinel FFFIPP recommendations in firefighter training, standard operating procedures, safety practices, and the safety environment of the fire departments.
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Pages in Document:264 pages in file, various pagination
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Citation:NC: Research Triangle Park, RTI International, 2006 Oct
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Federal Fiscal Year:2007
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Performing Organization:RTI International
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Peer Reviewed:False
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Resource Number:RTI Project Number 0208235.030
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