🚒🧑🚒 Performing on-scene gross decontamination following fires, reduces harmful surface carcinogens and toxins on firefighting bunker gear by 85%.
Decontamination and protecting firefighters doesn’t only happen on the fire grounds, it happens by bagging exposed bunker gear and thoroughly washing equipment at the hall.
By reducing these risks and keeping firefighters safe, prevents members from contracting firefighting-related cancers.
In a recent survey conducted through this page, 308 responses were recorded from firefighters from all across Nova Scotia.
From these responses 55% of the respondents felt their departments didn’t separate bunker gear after being exposed on-scene (bagged separately and brought to the station for cleaning) 🧼 🧻
Preventing firefighting-related cancers starts on the fire grounds but it doesn’t stop there.
Over the next couple of weeks and months I’ll be working with sharing these survey results along with tips and suggestions from data gathered from a survey earlier this year.
Adrian J.
