​Health and Wellness

These resources provide information related to health and wellness for Pennsylvania fire service members and their families.

Health & Safety

These online learning resources are related to the health and safety of firefighters:

• Everyone Goes Home: Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation
  
  
• FirefighterCloseCalls.com
  
  
• Healthcare Providers Guide to Firefighter Physicals (PDF):  This document provides healthcare providers with an overview of the unique occupational health risk of the job so they can better provide evaluation, treatment, and ongoing surveillance of the health and wellness of firefighters.
  
  
• UL Fire Safety Research Institute’s Fire Safety Academy
  
  
• Check out the new Analysis of the Coordination of Suppression and Ventilation in Multi-Family Dwellings online training course.
  
  
• Hazardous Materials Awareness (PA-PSFA-Hazardous Materials Awareness) can be completed online through TRAIN PA. Students will need an active TRAIN PA account or will need to create one.
  
  
• FEMA Critical Health and Safety Issues in the Volunteer Fire Service (PDF):  This document addresses firefighter and EMS health and safety concerns and offers information to help to address them.
  
  
• Traffic Incident Management (PA-TIM Traffic Incident Management Training) can be completed online through TRAIN PA. Students will need an active TRAIN PA account or will need to create one.
  
  

Cancer Prevention

For online learning opportunities related to cancer prevention, please see below.

• Fighting Firefighter Cancer: The 25 - Fire Engineering
  
  
• International Association of Fire Fighters Reduce Your Exposure to Carcinogens (PDF):  This document provides an overview of ways to reduce exposure to carcinogens and more.
  
  
• Lavender Report:  This report contains information and recommended steps on how to lessen occupational cancer.
  
  

Mental Health and Wellness

For online learning opportunities related to cancer prevention, please see below.

• TRAIN PA online courses:

- PA-PSFA: Being a First Responder During a Global Pandemic
- PA-PSFA: Had a Bad Call?
- PA-PSFA: How to Better Support Your Fellow First Responder
- PA-PSFA: Capturing the Load

• PA Dept. of Health First Responder Addiction and Connection to Treatment training program: PA Department of Health provides information on a training program for First Responders, Public Safety Professional and their agencies to ensure they have the tools to respond to the opioid epidemic. Those tools include addressing First Responder Safety and Burnout due to stress and challenging work environment.
  
  
• PA Dept. of Health First Responder Mental Health Toolkit: PA Department of Health provides a conduit to state and national resources that first responders can contact in the event of a mental health crisis. It also provides information and links to state, federal and commercially available training programs, tool kits for program development and other resources related to stress, mental and behavioral health. 
  
  
• First Responders - Prevent Suicide PA: This organization provides a number to call when in crisis, along with information, training and resources for first responders to help prevent suicide. 
  
  
• National Fallen Firefighters Foundation - "Taking Care of Our Own" program: Many organizations are not prepared to deal with a line of duty death. This program provides information and resources including the importance of maintaining current personnel information as part of the pre-incident plan should this day occur. There are other resources are available at this link.