"Prepared for the National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory."
"TR-100."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-60).
The emergency responder population -- Available surveillance data sources to define the occupational injury and disease characteristics of the emergency responder workforce -- Observations from the data regarding risks faced by emergency responders.
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Collects and synthesizes available data on casualties experienced by the emergency responder population. The authors examined data separately for firefighters, police officers, and emergency medical technicians. These data can provide a route for identifying combinations of kinds and causes of injury, body parts involved, and types of responder activity where injury reduction efforts might be most effectively applied.
Emergency medical personnel-- Health and hygiene.
Emergency medical personnel-- Wounds and injuries.