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Wildland Firefighter Health and Safety
… been investigating the job demands of wildland firefighters. This document is a combination of three research projects with a connection of health and safety of wildland firefighters.</p> <p>Smokejumpers are unique because they parachute into remote fires and are used primarily as initial attack …
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Wildland Firefighter Health and Safety
… been investigating the job demands of wildland firefighters. This document is a combination of three research projects with a connection of health and safety of wildland firefighters.</p> <p>Smokejumpers are unique because they parachute into remote fires and are used primarily as initial attack …
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Evaluation of Wildland Firefighter Leadership
… crisis leaders and followers, such as wildland firefighters make decisions in high-stress environments. In this study, wildland firefighters were examined to assess their decision-making skills using a wildland fire simulation computer game called the Networked Fire Chief (NFC). These results …
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Firefighter thermoregulation: clothingfit, cognition, and menthol
The multilayered firefighter turn-out gear is not only restrictive to movement but also contributes to increased body rectal temperature, heart rate, and skin temperature by trapping moisture and heat between the layers of the clothing. Firefighter gear fitting more loosely than needed may result …
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Sounding the Floor: Advancing Inclusive Firefighter Culture
… marginalized emergency responders. Keywords: firefighter, inclusion, culture, belonging, fire department
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Performance and Injury Predictability during Firefighter Candidate Training
The purpose of this study was to determine if a firefighter's fundamental movement patterns can act as predictors for occupational injury and performance during the firefighter academy training. The study consisted of 23 firefighter candidates entering the 16-week firefighter academy training. The …
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BRACE: Building resiliency in academy firefighter candidates through exercise
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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The Relation between Post-Traumatic Stress and Depression in Korean Firefighter
This study aims to identify the relationship between the level of post traumatic stress and depression among fire fighters. Data was collected from 126 male fire fighters with over one year of job experience in a fire station and a 119 safety center from August 23 to August 26, 2013. The level of …
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OVERCOMING IMPLEMENTATION BARRIERS WITHIN THE FIRE SERVICE TO REDUCE FIREFIGHTER CANCER RATES
… This epidemic claims the lives of hundreds of firefighters each year, even though the fire service has developed best practices to prevent occupational cancers. This thesis identifies seven barriers that are preventing fire departments from implementing best practices: fire department culture, …
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The Development and Economics of Firefighter and Police Unionism: A Comparative Study
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T23:49:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7412161.pdf: 13132992 bytes, checksum: 63ae515a6b269a55a8b8816ab2ab1acf (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Obstacle crossing behaviors in firefighters: effects of personal protective equipment and firefighter activity
… The key objective of this work was to assess firefighters’ risk of STF injuries by observing performance when crossing a stationary obstacle. Two studies were carried out to accomplish this goal. The first of these studies examined the effects of fatigue induced by several different simulated …
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Action detection in in-classroom firefighter training: A 360-degree video analytics service
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Development And Evaluation Of A Firefighter Physical Performance Program For Undergraduate Fire And Safety Students
… heart attacks. The International Association of Firefighters and the International Association of Fire Chiefs teamed up to create the Candidate Physical Ability Test (CPAT). Fire departments across the nation will have consistent physical performance tests to hire more physically capable …
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Evaluation of self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) design and weight on firefighter physiological and biomechanical response
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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A Qualitative Exploration of Firefighter Participation in Wellness Programs within a Career Fire Department in Northern Ohio
<p>Firefighters respond to dangerous emergencies every day. The physical and mental wellness of firefighters is very important to their overall job performance. To support this, fire departments must have established, comprehensive wellness programs (International Association of Firefighters, …
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Characterization of Contaminants on Firefighter"s Protective Equipment A Firefighter's Potential Exposure to Heavy Metals During a Structure Fire
… copper, and lead, on the surface of the firefighters bunker gear. Despite the fact that many studies have been conducted regarding the presence of organics in smoke emissions from structure fires, very few studies have investigated the extent of heavy metal emissions found during a …
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Foundation for Evaluating Injured Firefighters Returning to Work
… nursing and medical personnel when evaluating a firefighter's ability to return to work after a lower extremity injury. Two on-line survey instruments were used to record the opinions and beliefs of healthcare providers and firefighters. The final samples included 63 California healthcare …
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Tradition Under Fire: Values, Role Regulation and Work Identity within the Fire and Rescue Service
… by positive esteem. But the role of the Firefighter in society is changing by design, and as a reaction to changing demand and a need to diversify, beyond that of a traditional model.<br/><br/>This is a qualitative study, which gets to the heart of what it means to be a Firefighter. This …
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The development of novel tools for the assessment of UK firefighter nutritional status for use in a multi-component worksite nutrition intervention programme
Firefighters are at elevated risk of cardiovascular disease and myocardial infarction. Overweight and obesity prevalence in this occupational group may be greater than in the general population. This is the first nutrition-based study for UK firefighters, involving 28 fire stations and 575 …
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Fired Up: Scales of Safety and Federal Wildland Fire Management in the U.S.
… management, the role of U.S. federal wildland firefighters is quickly changing. Unlike most structure fire departments, federal wildland firefighters do not have a standardized "medic" position on crews and are provided very little medical training, leaving them particularly vulnerable to …
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