Health Risks and Fair Compensation in the Fire Service, 1st ed. 2016 Risk, Systems and Decisions Series

Firefighters face many work-related hazards and their elevated risk for serious chronic disease and injury results in a burden and gives rise to many claims for workers’ compensation

This book is a detailed and interdisciplinary resource for understanding and documenting these risks, both in general and in the individual case

This resource summarizes and explains the vast research literatures on disease risk (including cancer), the hazards of fire smoke, lifestyle health risk factors, and unique aspects of firefighting of practical importance in managing health risk

Beyond this one occupation, the book describes and gives examples of how to use epidemiology, toxicology, and other scientific approaches to general causation, the limitations of these approaches, and the translation of scientific knowledge into policy for worker protection

The book describes the history, evolution, and rationale for legislation for “presumption” of work-relationship for particular cancers, which is now well established in most US and Australian states and Canadian provinces.

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras