Emergency workers

Introduction

Emergency workers are people, who work in emergency response situations, such as fire-fighters, paramedics and police officers. Their specific work demands can be divided into physical, mental and environmental or task-defined. Time pressure, significant physical and psychological stress and unpredictable, rapidly changing work conditions increase stress and create special characteristics of the demands of the work in emergency situations. Important OSH issues are accidents, work-related diseases and symptoms, work ability and ageing-related issues.

Definition of emergency workers

Emergency workers work in emergency response situations…