The promotion of injury and illness prevention and reporting in the fire service.
BACKGROUND: Injury prevention interventions are limited in the fire service due to a lack of widespread implementation and underreporting. This creates a significant challenge to improving occupational health. OBJECTIVE: To determine how fire chiefs are promoting reporting and the prevention of phys...
| Publicado en: | Work Vol. 68; no. 2; pp. 437 - 448 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2021
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