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• Emergency Services Ergonomics and Wellness — This project provided extensive information on developing effective programs on helping to keep responders healthy and safe. It included information on exercise programs, nutrition, equipment design, and responder health/medical considerations. • Funding Alternatives for Emergency Medical and Fire Services — This report looked at additional sources of funding that were available to emergency response organizations that are beyond their normal revenue streams. These would allow organizations to improve and grow the level of services that they provide to their communities. Opportunities at the local, state, and federal levels were explored. • Emergency Vehicle Safety Initiative — This project examined the hazards associated with the operation of emergency vehicles while responding to, or returning from emergency calls, as well during normal operations. Historically, vehicle crashes account for approximately 25% of all firefighter line-of-duty fatalities on an annual basis. • Safety and Health Considerations for the Design of Fire and Emergency Medical Services Stations — This report examined the health and safety hazards associated with the design and operations of emergency response stations and made recommendations on these can be mitigated in the future. In addition to the research reports developed for the USFA, FPP also completed research that was funded by the USFA Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) program and other sources. These included: • Fire Safety Solutions for People with Disabilities — A smoke alarm installation and education project for people with vision, hearing and mobility disabilities throughout Oklahoma. It included How to Be Fire Safe for adults with mild to moderate mental retardation who live independently. (Funded by an Assistance to Firefighters grant) • Fire Safety for Young Children — A developmentally appropriate classroom curriculum delivered by early childhood educators with key assistance from the local fire department and parents. It was focused on 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children. (Funded by an Assistance to Firefighters grant) • Volunteer Firefighter Safety Research — A project to determine the effectiveness of self-study to increase knowledge and change attitudes related to volunteer firefighter safety and their volunteer fire departments’ safety practices. (Funded by an Assistance to Firefighters grant) • Identifying Leadership and Management Best Practices for Reducing Firefighter Deaths and Injuries — This project provided a list of good/best practices that result from effective, safety-oriented leadership and management practices and focused on the statistical fact that the annual rate of firefighter deaths in fire departments in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, and Wales) were only one seventh of the United States rate, when corrected for the number of fires. (In partnership with the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the Public Entity Risk Institute [PERI]) The cutting-edge information and results gleaned from these research projects is provided to the public at no charge. It is also used to ensure that IFSTA and FPP’s training manuals and other materials have the latest, verifiable information and technologies contained in them. Supporting the Mission of OSU Oklahoma State University is Oklahoma’s flagship, land grant institution. Land grant universities have a three-fold mission: education, research, and extension. FPP is an extension program of the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology (CEAT). The FPP operation is the largest extension program in CEAT and one of the largest in the entire university system. Probably no other OSU entity can boast of more direct impact and community presence throughout North America and many other portions of the world then can FPP. IFSTA and FPP manuals and training materials are used by the vast majority of U.S. and Canadian fire departments, as well as U.S. Department of Defense and Canadian Armed Forces fire
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