Funded by NHTSA and Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC), the EMS Workforce Agenda for the Future identifies four components critical to the development of a thriving EMS workforce that will be a driving force for achieving integrated, community-based EMS systems. The report provides a roadmap for building a future in which all EMS systems have a sufficient number of well-educated, adequately prepared, and appropriately credentialed EMS workers who are valued, fairly compensated, healthy, and safe.
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NHTSA has partnered with the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to improve injury surveillance and ambulance safety using NEISS-WORK.
NEISS-WORK collects data on work-related nonfatal injuries and illness treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments, and together, NIOSH and NHTSA are using the system to gather nationally representative data about line-of-duty injuries within EMS.