[Federal Register: December 22, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 246)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[Docket Number NIOSH-141]
Notice of Draft Document Available for Public Comment
AGENCY: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of Draft Document Available for Public Comment.
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SUMMARY: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
announces the availability of the following draft document available
for public comment entitled ``Preventing Deaths and Injuries of Fire
Fighters When Fighting Fires in Unoccupied Structures.'' The draft
document and instructions for submitting comments can be found at
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/review/public/141/. Comments may be provided
to the NIOSH Docket Number above.
Public Comment Period: January 5, 2009 to March 9, 2009.
Status: Written comments may be submitted to the NIOSH Docket
Office, Robert A. Taft Laboratories, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Mailstop
C34, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, telephone (513)
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533-8611. All materials submitted to the Agency should reference NIOSH
docket number 141 and must be submitted by March 9, 2009, to be
considered by the Agency. All electronic comments should be formatted
as Microsoft Word.
All information received in response to this notice will be
available for public examination and copying at the NIOSH Docket
Office, Room 111, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226. After
the comment period has closed, comments may be accessed electronically
at http://www.cdc.gov/NIOSH under the link to the NIOSH docket. As
appropriate, NIOSH will post comments with the commenters' names,
affiliations, and other information, on the Internet.
Background: This document highlights hazards and provides
recommendations for preventing fire fighter deaths and injuries when
working in structures that are known or suspected to be vacant or
unoccupied. This document summarizes fatality statistics from the
National Fire Protection Association as well as the NIOSH Fire Fighter
Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program (FFFIPP) databases.
Selected case reports from the NIOSH FFFIPP program are presented to
illustrate the risks to fire fighters entering structures known to be
unoccupied and to highlight recommended interventions. The primary
audiences are expected to be fire commissioners, fire chiefs, fire
department and municipal managers, fire fighters, labor unions, safety
and health professionals, trainers, fire investigators, State fire
marshals, contractors, building owners and other interested parties.
This guidance document does not have the force and effect of law.
CONTACT PERSON FOR TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Timothy R. Merinar, Safety
Engineer, CDC/NIOSH, Division of Safety Research, 1095 Willowdale Road,
H1808, Morgantown, West Virginia, 26505, telephone (304) 285-5916, e-
mail tmerinar@cdc.gov.
Reference: Web address for this document: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/
review/public/141/.
Dated: December 15, 2008.
James D. Seligman,
Chief Information Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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