Public Safety Program

Program Impact

NIOSH is strongly committed to program evaluation as a way to maximize its contributions to improved occupational safety and health. Regular review of program activities, outputs, and outcomes is essential to demonstrate program performance. The Public Safety Program conducts reviews and shares program impact in a variety of ways.

Program Performance One-pager

Program Performance One-Pagers (PPOPs) are a snapshot of NIOSH programs’ priorities, strategies used to make progress towards priorities, recent accomplishments, and upcoming work.

Public Safety Program Performance One-pager

Impact Sheets

Impact Sheets briefly describe an occupational safety or health hazard, the specific NIOSH or NIOSH-funded research activity that was conducted to address the hazard, the resulting impact or recommendations, and relevant statistics.

NIOSH Research Improves Equipment Design to Protect Firefighters

NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods Provides Analytical Tools that Help Keep Workers Safe

NIOSH-funded Program Partners with Chiefs of Police to Reduce Traumatic Injuries Among New Jersey School Crossing Guards

NIOSH Continues Research to Improve Safety for Ambulance Service Workers and EMS Responders

Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation Reports

NIOSH conducts investigations of firefighter line-of-duty deaths to formulate recommendations for preventing future deaths and injuries. As of 2016, NIOSH has investigated over 600 fire fighter line-of-duty deaths since the program was initiated, or approximately 40 percent of the total number of fire fighter fatalities.

• Volunteer Fire Chief and Firefighter Killed when a Wildland Engine Plummeted from a Fire-Damaged Wooden Bridge into a Dry Creek Bed
• Fire Chief Suffers Sudden Cardiac Death at Structure Fire
• Safety Officer/Instructor Suffers Sudden Death after Training

NIOSH Science Blogs

The NIOSH Science Blogs provide an opportunity to exchange ideas on various workplace safety and health topics with leading researchers.

• National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA)
• Emergency Response
• Cardiovascular Disease
• Exposure
• Motor Vehicle Safety
• Violence

Webinars

Solving Problems Through NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluations