fire service
The health of women in the US fire service
... Preliminary evidence also suggests that rates of over- weight and obesity (BMI ≥ 25) are higher in the fire service than the general public. For instance, Soteriades [17] found that 77% of male firefighters ...
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Application of Floyd’s Algorithm for Knust Fire Service
... an fire service to rush from station to any of the hall of residence in knust ...municipal service, involves a large expenditure but receives, scant ...
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Community and fire service perceptions of bushfire issues in Tamborine Mountain: what’s the difference?
... Rural Fire Service (QFRS), and in recent times there have been no significant bushfire ...Four fire brigades service the area, these include Auxiliary Fire Brigades (AFB) and Rural ...
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Evaluating the risk element of the supply chain of Ghana national fire service
... This study was set out to evaluate the various categories of risks within the Ghana National Fire Service supply chain in the Greater Accra. The study revealed that systematic risk, unsystematic risk and ...
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Efficacy of a proactive health and safety risk management system in the fire service
... National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) indicate that FG injuries continue to be the most prevalent activity associated with injury at approximately 46% of injuries (Karter and Molis, 2010; Karter and Molis, ...to ...
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Identifying barriers to empowerment initiatives in a fire service command structure: An international comparison of the issues of empowerment in four fire brigades
... The views of Professor John S Oakland, of the Bradford Business School were given close attention by both the research and implementation teams in the West Midlands Fire Service. This was principally due to ...
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Assisted Resource Management in the New Zealand Rural Fire Service
... Rural Fire Service, the purpose of which is to demonstrate the potential of such ...emergency service groups. While we focus on the New Zealand rural fire service in this project our ...
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“Add Flow to the Fire”: Flow and Hope as a Shield against Burnout of Fire Service Workers
... Hellenic Fire Service Headquarters prior to the ...the fire department that they ...the fire department, and then, after the participants’ involvement in a fire extinguishing ...
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Fire fighters, neighbourhoods and social identity: The relationship between the fire service and residents in Bristol
... the fire service and some ...the fire service is neither porous, nor outward looking (Baigent 2001, Bain 2002), although the situation is seen to be improving (Audit Commission ...the ...
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The Building Act 2004 and the Inclusion of the New Zealand Fire Service in the Building Consent Process
... the fire professional’s ...a service and that most design jobs would only have minimal need for such work anyway, it could also be argued that commercial competition would also be a ...for fire ...
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The role of leadership at the implementation of innovations at the Netherlands fire service
... Ik denk dat dat niet wenselijk is, het is een goed streven dat we een platte organisatie met veel verantwoordelijkheden zouden krijgen, maar dan krijg je strategisch managers die heel di[r] ...
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An Incident Reporting and Information Retrieval System for the Fire Service
... This is because the Fire Safety Division has no general data base on past incidents therefore to obtain information of this kind, it is necessary either to look through the monthly or an[r] ...
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Exploring legitimacy in major public procurement projects
... the fire service through emotive rhetoric of efficiency, and latterly of security and ...The fire fighter dispute and the terrorist threat were used to justify their new public management and ...
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Organisational responses to warnings of impending hazards : what can be learned from the September 2009 and February 2010 warnings in New Zealand? : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Emergency Management, 130 899, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
... One survey respondent did indicate the secondary location where they were expected to be evacuated to and continue working from was less than adequate (Table 7). Some interview participants also pointed out that if they ...
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Investigating behaviour change following a Home Fire Safety Visit
... the fire service personnel as ‘polite’ and ...the service - for example, requests were made by residents to the fire service personnel that were ‘additional’ to the HFSV ...or ...
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The provision of fire services in rural areas
... evolved fire cover rules for the first time in the period following the passage of the 1938 Fire Brigades Act that established for the first time a statutory duty on local authorities to provide a ...
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Volunteers in British Mountain Rescue: responding to increasing demand for rescues and a changed relationship with the state
... ‘ A not unusual call for a controller is from the police — despondent missing person, known to like walking. Can you search for him? The answer is no, as we’d need a little more of a precise locality to begin our search ...
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Large emergency response exercises: qualitative characteristics a survey
... airport fire service instructed the airport security staff to refuse admittance to the local fire service crew who were coming to back them up, as was required by the airport response ...
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A national study of Continuous Professional Competence (CPC) amongst pre hospital practitioners
... Health Service, An Garda Síochána (police), Fire Service, Coastguard, ...Ambulance Service (71 %) and the Dublin Fire Brigade (14 %) ...
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Salivary alpha amylase in on-call from home fire and emergency service personnel
... concentration or AAR reactivity following NO-CALL or NIGHT-CALL compared to OFF-CALL. These findings should be interpreted with caution. The results could suggest that (a) there is no anticipatory effect to operating ...
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