EMS personnel have an occupational fatality rate that is comparable to police and fire fighters and much higher than the average rates for all U.S. workers. This session will describe the risks and analyze solutions for reducing those risks. The first part of the session will be a synthesis of what we know about risks of occupational injury and fatality for EMS personnel. The review will include information from published journal articles as well as insights from three papers that are about to be submitted for publication. By the end of the first half of the session the attendees will be able to summarize: how paramedicine clinicians are killed and injured; how those risks vary by sex and age; and, how the risks for EMS personnel compare to other occupational groups.

The second half of the session will be a discussion of ways to reduce the risks of injury and fatality for our personnel. We will review solutions that have worked for EMS personnel as well as what we can learn from interventions that worked in other settings. Attendees will leave with a toolbox of solutions that they can use to create risk reduction interventions for their own departments.
Learning Objectives:

Upon completion, participant will be able to summarize how paramedicine clinicians are killed and injured.
Upon completion, participant will be able to compare the risks for paramedicine clinicians to other occupational groups.
Upon completion, participant will be able to create risk reduction interventions for their own departments.