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Fire department details cancer risk-reduction program, cites expanded screening and NFPA standards
Summary
Deputy Chief Brad Cusick told the Public Safety Committee the department has a written cancer-risk-reduction program that includes station design, two sets of bunker gear, gear washers, decon protocols and expanded annual medical screening guided by NFPA occupational health standards.
Deputy Chief Brad Cusick told the Overland Park Public Safety Committee the fire department treats firefighting as an occupational carcinogen and has a written cancer risk-reduction program that includes engineering, procedural and lifestyle controls.
Cusick summarized the scientific basis for heightened cancer risk in firefighting and listed steps the department has taken: station and apparatus-bay ventilation, two sets of bunker gear per firefighter to allow cleaning, on-scene decontamination procedures, gear…
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