The 60-page document is meant to assist responders in health care, public safety, utilities, construction, humanitarian aid, and cleanup services. NIOSH has launched an interim training program to ...

"Our young adult participants have a variety of challenges and barriers to sustainable employment, such as a lack of education or homelessness, and this training program will provide them with a ...

Long work hours, coupled with the high physical and emotional strain associated with emergency response and recovery operations, can prevent responders from getting enough sleep and puts them, and ...

On October 23, 2017, at 1900 hours a 31-year-old male volunteer fire fighter (FF) began a regularly scheduled weekly training session. The training was held at the county fire training center and was ...

The NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program has released the line of duty death report of a Indiana volunteer fire engineer who died from heart attack and cardiac arrest ...

NIOSH is facing the largest proportional budget cut of all the occupational safety and health agencies in the proposed FY 2003 budget, and OSHA's training programs could take a significant hit as well ...

Two dozen firefighters and ten fire instructors will join researchers at the Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI) beginning Saturday to continue studying the effects of fire, exposure and ...

California's inmate firefighter program should perform thorough medical evaluations of its participants following the 2018 death of a wildland firefighter during a training hike, according to a ...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 6 (Bernama) -- The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in collaboration with the Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM), today launched a free ...

Before 1970, America’s workplaces were very dangerous. American workers regularly suffered lacerations and lost limbs. Shipyard workers died of asbestosis. Coal miners suffocated from black lung ...