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 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
- Page last reviewed: January 4, 2017
- Page last updated: August 8, 2017
- Content source:
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Office of the Director