- Author
- Ide, C. W.
- Title
- Failing Firefighters: A Survey on Causes of Death and Ill-Health Retirement of Serving Firefighters in Strathclyde, Scotland.
- Journal
- Fire Engineers Journal, Vol. 58, No. 197, 19-26, November 1998
- Keywords
- fire fighters | surveys | fire statistics | death | health hazards
- Identifiers
- ill-health retirement (IHR); standardised mortality ratio (SMR); summarising numbers of primary diagnoses (ICD 9th revision classification) and service injuries leading to IHR by year; summarising numbers, rank, mean, median, etc. of length of service before IHR for various diagnoses; details of length of service (years) broken down by year and rank; numbers of wholetime firefighters leaving Strathclyde Fire Brigade on ill-health retiral during the period January 1, 1985 to December 31, 1994 by length of service; muscluloskeletal diagnoses occuring without previous injury; musculoskeletal diagnoses associated with previous injury