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Stress and Violence against fire-based EMS Responders (SAVER)

• Inventory of state workers' compensation laws in the United States: first responder mental health
• EMERG-ing data: Multi-city surveillance of workplace violence against EMS responders
• Model Policies to Protect US Fire-Based EMS Responders From Workplace Stress and Violence
• Meeting Science Meets Public Health: Results from the "Stress and Violence in fire-based EMS Responders (SAVER)" Systems Checklist Consensus Conference (SC³)
• Mitigating Violence Against First Responder Teams: Results and Ideas from the Hackmanathon
• A Systematic Review of Workplace Violence Against Emergency Medical Services Responders
• Creation of a Systems-Level Checklist to Address Stress and Violence in Fire-Based Emergency Medical Services Responders
• "Felony assaults should stick:" Assaulted EMS responders' frustration and dissatisfaction with the legal system
• USFA Mitigation of Occupational Violence to Firefighters and EMS Responders
• A Strained 9-1-1 System and Threats to Public Health
• Expecting the Unexpected: A Mixed Methods Study of Violence to EMS Responders in an Urban Fire Department

Fire service Organizational Culture of Safety (FOCUS)

• An updated analysis of safety climate and downstream outcomes in two convenience samples of US fire departments (FOCUS 1.0 and 2.0 survey waves)
• Size matters: How safety climate and downstream outcomes vary by fire department organization type
• Moving FOCUS - The Fire service Organizational Culture of Safety survey - From research to practice
• Development and validation of the fire service safety climate scale
• Ladders and lifting: How gender affects safety behaviors in the fire service
• Situational Pressures that Influence Firefighters' Decision Making about Personal Protective Equipment: A Qualitative Analysis

COVID-19 RAPID Mental Health Assessment

• By nature, we're doers and problem solvers: Evolving Job Demands and Resources in response to COVID-19 among US-based Fire Service Personnel (The RAPID Study II)
• Interplay between Safety Climate and Emotional Exhaustion: Effects on First Responders' Safety Behavior and Wellbeing Over Time 
• Assessing the Mental Health Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on US Fire-Based EMS Responders: A Tale of Two Samples (The RAPID Study I)

Near-Miss Reporting

• From Infancy to Adolescence: The Development and Future of the National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System
• Near-miss narratives from the fire service: A Bayesian analysis
• Injury risks of EMS responders: Evidence from the National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System

Injury Data Evaluation and Analysis (IDEA)

• The benefits of data linkage for firefighter injury surveillance
• Harnessing information from injury narratives in the "big data" era: Understanding and applying machine learning for injury surveillance
• Examining the term "surveillance" as a potential barrier between public health and community partners

Occupational Health & Safety

• Time Well Spent: Patient Industry and Occupation Data Collection in Emergency Departments
• A dissonant scale: Stress recognition in the SAQ
• Do nurse and patient injuries share common antecedents? An analysis of associations within safety climate and working conditions
• Using Inpatient Hospital Discharge Data to Monitor Patient Safety Events
• Triangulation case-finding tools for patient safety surveillance: A cross-sectional case study of puncture/laceration
• The Need for Industry and Occupation Standards in Hospital Discharge Data