Exposure to chemical and biological contaminants on the fire ground is an increasing concern for long-term fire fighter health. Cancer and other diseases resulting from chronic exposures has become a leading concern for the fire service. This is presumed to be associated with fireground exposures relating to protection/hygiene practices and persistent harmful contamination found in fire fighter equipment, apparatus carrying that equipment, and stations where the equipment resides.
Research goal and objectives: The overall goal of this project is to develop and facilitate the outreach of an educational campaign to control the spread of harmful fire ground contaminants, ultimately in support of improved fire fighter long-term health. This will be accomplished by identifying and addressing stakeholder gaps for the control of contaminants adversely impacting fire fighter health through a process of generating, clarifying and prioritizing specific recommended best practices. A key activity in support of this goal and objectives is a workshop to address this topic. This effort is funded by an AFG Fire Prevention & Safety Grant.
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Recommendations for Developing and Implementing a Fire Service Contamination Control Campaign
Synopsis of Workshop and Future Efforts
The workshop in Columbus, OH was held in July 2017 with 63 emergency responder, fire protection and research professionals to assess proposed communication and awareness tools to be used in a Fire Service Contamination Control Campaign. The workshop was organized into different segments over afternoon and morning sessions to cover specific approaches for minimizing fire fighter exposure to a range of hazardous contaminants, known to create both acute and chronic health and safety issues.
Workshop proceedings（PDF）
研讨会议程（PDF）
缩写研讨会摘要（PDF）
车间出席（PDF）
Proposed campaign tools addressed by the workshop included:
- A comprehensive, detailed white paper, highlighting the extent of contamination control issues and best practices
- An interactive, searchable literature database on specific research articles and reports on contamination control
- 标准资源数据库，指示与污染控制和日历的现有和预期标准的要求
- 可更新的最佳实践数据库，其中包括建议在消防服务中不同级别实施的建议的多种方法的参考
- 相关行业的小插曲强调实践s for controlling contamination in other industry applications featuring healthcare, nuclear power, and hazardous materials remediation
- 一个问题/答案论坛，用于提供有关相关污染主题的开放行业沟通
- 商定的适用术语词汇表
每个与会者都有一份广泛的问卷，该问卷已完成并在研讨会结束前已上交。与与会者如何使用工具，期望工具提供的内容以及如何根据研讨会期间提出的内容如何改进最终产品有关的意见有关。提取笔记以捕获讨论，并为最终报告和建议汇编结果。消防研究基金会预计将发布一份详细的报告，该报告在8月底之前汇编了研讨会。
Workshop Initial Conclusions
- There is consensus that repeated exposures to contamination at the fire scene, combined with the subsequent post fire scene exposures to contaminated clothing, tools, apparatus, and stations are likely causing increased rates of cancer in fire fighters. Moreover, cancer diagnoses are happening earlier in a fire fighter’s life with unusual, rarer forms of cancers are being diagnosed.
- 有共识认为，污染对健康的负面影响远比癌症更广泛。许多其他慢性健康障碍可能与广泛的，持续的化学暴露有关。以耐药细菌和各种传染病的形式，人们对生物暴露的关注也越来越多。
- The audience for this type of campaign should include fire fighters (both structural and wildland/forestry), fire officers, fire marshals, fire investigators, public safety officers, emergency medical technicians, others engaged in evolving fire service operations, as well as the fire and emergency services PPE, apparatus and equipment industry.
- 污染控制的重点必须超出火场或紧急场景。离开现场之前，应从衣服，工具和设备中清除污染。组织需要立即采取行动，以防止污染物的运输并限制污染物，车站和其他设施，并与公众接触。
- 拟议的工具应提高整个火灾和紧急服务的认识，包括线消防员以及领导和支持角色的成员。这些工具还应鼓励消防和紧急服务PPE，设备和设备行业以改进的设计，新技术产品和服务负责任地做出反应。
- Any recommended best practices need to attain a minimum standard of contamination control. They should also include a variety of different approaches that allow implementation of changes in equipment and procedures that can be adopted by all fire and emergency services organizations (career, combination, and combination) based on their level of resources.
- The likely platform for disseminating these communications and awareness tools is a dedicated website; however, comprehensive approaches are needed to ensure that currently available information is made accessible and can be updated as increased research and findings are provided.
关于项目团队
杰弗里·斯图尔（Jeffrey Stull） - 一家专门研究个人保护设备设计，开发，评估和标准化的研究和测试公司国际人事保护公司总裁
Marni Schmid – Principal of Fortunes Collide Marketing and Business Consulting, LLC, a marketing and planning company associated with fire service safety and research projects
Peg Paul and Julie Reynolds – Director and Marketing Specialist for Peg Paul & Associates, a marketing communications agency that specializes in developing and implementing multi-integrated information and education campaigns
Robert Tutterow - 消防行业教育资源组织（F.I.E.R.O.）的总裁，该组织致力于促进消防服务中的合作，以提高健康与安全意识
客座演讲者
Paul Erickson – Architect, LeMay Erickson Willcox Architects (Reston, Virginia), experienced fire station architect, developer and promoter of Hot Zone Design
Dave Bernzweig – Battalion Chief for the Columbus Fire Department, member of IAFF Local 67, and member of NFPA Technical Committee on Fire Department Occupational Safety and Health Program (i.e., NFPA 1500 series standards)
Beth Gallup – Captain, Kent (Washington) Fire Department, Washington State Council of Fire Fighters, contributor to “Healthy In, Healthy Out” (a publication funded by a grant from the State of Washington, Department of Labor and Industries)
