Posts Tagged: Initiative 2

Special Report: Trends and Hazards in Firefighter Training

Author: Adam Thiel, Jeff Stern, John Kimball, Nicole Hankin
Date Published: May 2003
Publisher: US Fire Administration
Keywords: training safety, Initiative 2, Initiative 5, training hazards

The Hazards Associated with Agricultural Silo Fires: Special Report

Author: Alan Clark, John Kimball, Hollis Stambaugh
Date Published: 1988
Publisher: US Fire Administration
Keywords: Initiative 3, Initiative 2, operational safety, situational risks, silo fires, agriculture, firefighting hazards

Prevention of Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus Failures, Special Report

Author: Adam K. Thiel
Date Published: 1992
Publisher: US Fire Administration
Keywords: Initiative 8, Initiative 2, protective technology, SCBA, risk protection, respiratory protection, SCBA failures

Frequency and type of injuries in responders of hazardous substances emergency events, 1996 to 1998.

Author: Zeitz P, Berkowitz Z, Orr MF, Haugh GS, Kaye WE.
Date Published: November 2000
Publisher: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Keywords: Initiative 2, hazmat response

The role of exertion as a determinant of carboxyhemoglobin accumulation in firefighters.

Author: Griggs TR.
Date Published: November 1977
Publisher: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Keywords: Initiative 2, smoke exposure, carbon monoxide, heart rate, repiratory protection

Outpatient firefighter burn injuries: a 3-year review.

Author: Rabbitts A, Alden NE, Scalabrino M, Yurt RW.
Date Published: July-August 2005
Publisher: Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation
Keywords: Initiative 2, burn injuries

The epidemiology and prevention of burn injuries to firefighters.

Author: Madden MR, Mathwick M, Valentino L, Finkelstein JL, Goodwin CW.
Date Published: July-August 1995
Publisher: Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation
Keywords: Initiative 6, Initiative 2, burn injuries, risk protection

Real-time and time-integrated PM2.5 and CO from prescribed burns in chipped and non-chipped plots: firefighter and community exposure and health implications.

Author: Naeher LP, Achtemeier GL, Glitzenstein JS, Streng DR, Macintosh D.
Date Published: July 2006
Publisher: Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology
Keywords: Initiative 2, wildland firefighting, smoke exposure, prescribed burns

Baseline measurements of smoke exposure among wildland firefighters.

Author: Reinhardt TE, Ottmar RD.
Date Published: September 2004
Publisher: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
Keywords: Initiative 2, wildland firefighting, smoke exposure

Project Aquarius 9. Relative influence of job demands and personal factors on the energy expenditure, strain, and productivity of men suppressing wildland fires

Author: Baker, M. M., Beasley, F. A., Brotherhood, J. R., Budd, G. M., Cheney, N. P., Costin, B. P., Dawson,
Date Published: June 1997
Publisher: International Journal of Wildland Fire
Keywords: Initiative 2, wildland firefighting, work capacity, situational factors, job function