TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Two-month point prevalence of exposure to critical incidents in firefighters in a single fire service
JO  - Work
A1  - Macdermid, Joy C.
A1  - Nazari, Goris
A1  - Rashid, Coomal
A1  - Sinden, Kathryn
A1  - Carleton, Nicholas
A1  - Cramm, Heidi
SP  - 477
EP  - 483
VL  - 62
IS  - 3
N2  - BACKGROUND: Firefighters have high rates of exposures to critical events that contribute to physical and mental stress, resulting in high rates of injury and work-injury compensation claims. <br><br>OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of critical incidents in firefighters from a single fire service, and whether the number of critical events varied based on age, gender, years of service and/or rank. <br><br>METHODS: We recruited 300 full-time firefighters. Firefighters were asked to complete a self-report Critical Incident Inventory survey that included questions on exposure to critical events during firefighting duties, with a time reference point of the past two months. <br><br>RESULTS: Among the 293 firefighters, 252 (85%) indicated exposure to some type of critical incident. More specifically, 187 (64%) reported a respond to incident involving one or two deaths, 155 (53%) indicated a direct exposure to blood and body fluids, and 98 (33%) reported a response to an incident involving multiple serious injuries. Age, gender, years of service and rank accounted for only 1% of the variance in the number of critical incidents among firefighters. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: In this study, 85% of firefighters had been exposed to some type of critical incident in the previous 2-months and this did not vary by age, gender, years of service and/or rank.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1051-9815
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/WOR-192882
ID  - ref1
ER  -