Comparing Health Status and Exposure Risk in Career vs. Voluntary Firefighters

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• Personal Author:
  Morris C
• Description:
  This study aimed to address a research question within the Public Safety sector that includes members of the firefighting profession. Some firefighting departments are composed of professional firefighters (career firefighters) while some smaller towns cannot fully fund a professional firefighting department and rely on their citizens to volunteer their time and put their lives at risk to perform fire suppression and other related firefighting tasks when those events arise. Considering the financial dedication that is directed towards professional fire fighters, it can be expected that these fire fighters undergo much more rigorous physical training and on-the-job training to perform tasks related to firefighting. To the best of the authors' knowledge, no study to-date have directly compared the physical fitness or health status of firefighters from professional departments versus those firefighters who are members of a volunteer department. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Biomarkers Firefighters Fires Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Fire Fighters Fire Fighting Health Effects Physical Fitness Physiological Function Physiological Response
• Publisher:
  University of Cincinnati
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  13 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20054970 ; nn:20054971
• Citation:
  19th Annual Pilot Research Project Symposium, University of Cincinnati Education and Research Center, October 11-12, 2018, Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati, 2018 Oct; :1-13
• Email:
  CEMORRIS@UAB.EDU
• CAS Registry Number:
  Perfluorooctanoic acid (CAS RN 335-67-1)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Performing Organization:
  University of Cincinnati
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:72195d5ddc7a4e6e085aa2711d1212d062ba7fa9b0164acbf1e37f32a7ec53590ec08d3df853e6289873d234da02b3d67d937663f07536d9355812dbd081ada2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/217376/cdc_217376_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 385.52 KB ]