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NIOSH Alert: Preventing Injuries and Deaths of Fire Fighters Due to Truss System Failures
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) requests assistance in preventing injuries and deaths of fire fighters due to roof and floor truss collapse during fire-fighting operations. Roof and floor truss system collapses in buildings that are on fire cannot be predicted and many occur without warning. NIOSH recommends that fire departments review their occupational safety programs and standard operating procedures to ensure they include safe work practices in and around structures that contain trusses. Building owners should follow proper building codes and consider posting building construction information outside a building to advise fire fighters of the conditions they may encounter.
NIOSH Alert: Preventing Injuries and Deaths of Fire Fighters Due to Truss System Failures
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) requests assistance in preventing injuries and deaths of fire fighters due to roof and floor truss collapse during fire-fighting operations. Roof and floor truss system collapses in buildings that are on fire cannot be predicted and many occur without warning. NIOSH recommends that fire departments review their occupational safety programs and standard operating procedures to ensure they include safe work practices in and around structures that contain trusses. Building owners should follow proper building codes and consider posting building construction information outside a building to advise fire fighters of the conditions they may encounter.
NIOSH Alert: Preventing Injuries and Deaths of Fire Fighters Due to Truss System Failures
2005
34 pages
Report
No indication
English
Public Health & Industrial Medicine , Police, Fire, & Emergency Services , Fire Services, Law Enforcement, & Criminal Justice , Industrial Safety Engineering , Building Industry Technology , Fire fighters , Accident prevention , Occupational safety and health , Injuries , Fatalities , Fire fighting , Trusses , Wooden structures , Buildings , Roofs , Floors , Fire departments , Work environments , Structural collapse , National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health(NIOSH)