Table of Contents:
  • 1. History of occupational safety and health in emergency service organizations
  • 2. Safety-related regulations and standards applied to emergency services
  • 3. Risk management and administration
  • 4. The development and management of the safety program
  • 5. Risk assessment and safety planning
  • 6. Fire emergency safety
  • 7. Safety at EMS emergencies
  • 8. Safety at specific types of incidents
  • 9. Safety after the incident
  • 10. Individual responsibility with safety : if not you, then who?
  • 11. Safety program appraisal : making it happen : if not now, then when?
  • 12. Data collection and information management
  • 13. Specific issues concerning occupational safety services
  • 14. Lessons learned from incidents