Mental health and social support are emerging fields of interest in wildland firefighter environmental health research, and one survey found that 16% of respondents have had suicidal thoughts that were worsened by the stress of their jobs (Verble et al. 2022). Performance studies Performance ...
work experience (>10 years) doubled the likelihood of occupational injury among the WFFs in our study (OR = 2.46, CI = 1.30–4.67). The systematic repetition of movements involved in their various jobs (e.g., carrying heavy loads and handling hand tools) [38] could have caused overuse ...
The development of the oil and gas industry from 1969, an oil terminal in 1988, and a gas processing plant in 1996 provided well-paid jobs [45]. The number of farms declined, and those left were managed by modern agricultural methods, leaving the heathlands to degrade, i.e., no ...