Best Practices to Reduce Cancer in the Fire Service: On the Fireground
Mar 2024
Learn about fireground hazard zoning, SCBA usage, and preliminary exposure reduction protocols to limit toxic chemical exposures during fire suppression.
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Best Practices to Reduce Cancer in the Fire Service: At the Station
Mar 2024
Details station design strategies, hazard zoning, and personal best practices to minimize toxic exposures and reduce cancer risks for fire fighters. -
Female Fire Fighters and Cancer
Mar 2024
Learn about occupational cancer risks affecting female fire fighters and explore prevention strategies, exposure reduction practices, and resources to support women in the fire service. -
Survivorship
Mar 2024
Learn how fire fighter cancer survivors can navigate recovery, long-term health, emotional well-being, and ongoing support through survivorship resources and guidance. -
PFAS and the Fire Service
Mar 2024
Learn how PFAS “forever chemicals” affect fire fighters through occupational exposure, increase cancer and health risks, and explore strategies to reduce exposure and improve fire fighter safety. -
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
Mar 2024
Learn how the IARC classification recognizes firefighting as a carcinogenic occupation and explores the evidence linking occupational exposures to increased cancer risk in fire fighters. -
Brown 2013 – Fire Fighters Cancer Study
Mar 2024
Learn how fire fighter occupational exposures contribute to cancer risk and explore research findings on prevention, exposure reduction, and protecting fire fighter health. -
Exposure to PAHs in Controlled Structure Fires
Mar 2024
Learn how polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and combustion byproducts from structure fires expose fire fighters to cancer risks and how exposure reduction practices can improve safety. -
Fentanyl Dermal Exposure Report
Mar 2024
Learn how fentanyl and synthetic opioid exposure can affect fire fighters and emergency responders, and explore protective measures, PPE recommendations, and safety practices to reduce occupational risk. -
Diesel Exhaust WHO Report
Mar 2024
Learn how diesel exhaust exposure impacts fire fighter health and cancer risk while exploring strategies to reduce occupational exposure and improve fire station safety.