Editors:
- 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
Part of the book series: Risk, Systems and Decisions (RSD)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Washington, USA
Tee L. Guidotti
About the editor
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health Risks and Fair Compensation in the Fire Service
Editors: Tee L. Guidotti
Series Title: Risk, Systems and Decisions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23069-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-23068-9Published: 05 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36340-0Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23069-6Published: 27 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2626-6717
Series E-ISSN: 2626-6725
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 299
Topics: Environmental Health, Actuarial Sciences, Labour Law/Social Law