National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) firefighter fatality investigation reports are now accessible through the National Fallen Firefighters (NFF) Memorial Database. A "View NIOSH Report" link is below the "Final Summary" information link for each of the memorial database listings, making it possible for users to have access to detailed information concerning the specific fatality they might not otherwise have known existed, explains Alexandra R. Furr, director of the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) National Fire Data Center.
The NIOSH report was initiated in 1998 with the objective of reducing firefighter fatalities through analysis of the circumstances of the death and recommendations for preventing deaths under similar conditions in the future. The USFA has established as one of its primary goals reducing firefighter fatalities by 25 percent in five years and by 50 percent in 10 years.
在过去的25年里,USFAhas tracked the number of firefighter fatalities and conducted an annual analysis. These reports and other resources related to firefighter fatalities, such as the "USFA Firefighter Fatality Retrospective Study 1990-2000" and a United States Forest Service report on "Wildland Fire Fatalities in the United States 1990-1998," are available online at http://www.usfa.fema.gov/ dhtml/ inside-usfa/ff_fat.cfm. The National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Database is at http://www.usfa.fema.gov/applications/ffmem/ffmem_search.cfm. Note: Select the "Memorial" radio button and any one or all of the years 1998 to 2001 to view listings with NIOSH reports (not all fatalities will have a completed report). The "Notices" radio button is for current year data only and is not linked to the NIOSH reports. You can also use the input form to specify the year of death and search by name.
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