Safety and Health in Law Enforcement

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  The NORA National Public Safety Sector Agenda is a strategic framework to ensure progress and track accomplishments through 2016 on priority occupational safety and health issues. The agenda includes sets of goals for four public safety industries, including law enforcement. Law Enforcement Strategic Goals: 1) Evaluate existing information sources that may be enhanced or expanded to conduct occupational safety and health surveillance; 2) Reduce traumatic injuries and fatalities from vehicle collisions by 15%; 3) Reduce injury and death from criminal assaults by 10%; 4) Reduce cardiovascular disease disabilities and fatalities by 15%. This fact sheet provides a synopsis of the Law Enforcement goals established by the NORA Public Safety Sector Council. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiovascular System Emergency Responders Law Enforcement Morbidity Mortality Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Cardiovascular-system-disorders Emergency-responders Injuries Injury-prevention Law-enforcement Law-enforcement-workers Morbidity-rates Mortality-rates Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Occupational-safety-programs Police-officers Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-personnel Safety-practices Safety-programs Safety-research Statistical-analysis Traumatic-injuries

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• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2011134
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  Michigan ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  NPPTL - National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20038972
• Citation:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2011-134, 2011 Jan; :1-2
• Email:
  WHaskell@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services ; Public Safety
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3094370897aa37b92ae91624e971e704eb01b4b9cd90d13ec684bd27cb993c8141943bbde2da4aa29abe891660543ddacd45aa347ac98f803686e7b64699004e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209977/cdc_209977_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 701.28 KB ]