Working on a construction site, whether it’s a small residential building or a major commercial project, is no easy task. The work can be tedious, dangerous, and at times even deadly. That’s why it’s important to take every precaution necessary to keep yourself and your coworkers safe – even when it comes to using your smartphone.
Because the job demands so much attention to detail, many construction workers don’t want to waste time answering phone calls from their loved ones. The problem with this is that they could end up missing an urgent call in the event of an emergency while they were on site. Fortunately, there are some apps available that can help you stay connected with family members without having to worry about being interrupted by them during work hours. These include
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Best Apps For Firefighters
Animated Knots by Grog
Knowing how to tie all kinds of knots is crucial for emergency situations. The Animated Knots app is one of the most comprehensive knot apps with instructions to over 195 knots. This app provides an easy way to help you learn knots through clear diagrams and step-by-step directions
Available for download on Android and iOS.
WISER
Firefighters must make many decisions quickly in handling hazardous-materials incidents. This app provides accurate information about the hazardous substances, the emergency resources available, and guidance on the immediate actions necessary to save lives and protect the environment. The WISER application extracts content from PubChem, an authoritative, peer-reviewed information resource maintained by the National Library of Medicine.
Available for download on Android and iOS.
Pulsepoint AED
Time is precious when it comes to saving someone during cardiac arrest. Pulsepoint AED is an app that provides emergency responders with a list of nearby AEDs during situations of cardiac arrests. The information is disclosed to emergency responders, nearby citizens trained in CPR, and off-duty professionals such as firefighters and nurses. This app also records and displays other lifesaving resources at AED locations, including Bleeding Control Kits, Naloxone, and Epinephrine.
Available for download on Android and iOS.
Drugs.com
The Drugs.com app allows users to look up drug information, identify pills, and keep track of medication records all on your phone. Through this app, you can access in-depth consumer information, FDA alerts, and check how different drugs taken at the same time will react. With a database that is updated daily, users can identify meds by simply entering an imprint, shape, or color.
Available for download on Android and iOS.
Fire Flow/Pump Pressure Calculator
This app is crucial in times of fire emergencies. It calculates the estimated needed fire flow required to extinguish a structure fire. It also calculates pump discharge pressures for various hand-lines and master streams in both standard and metric terms. This app is specifically designed for drivers/operators during emergency response or pre-planning calculations to help control the fire ground incident when it occurs.
Available for download on iOS.
Firefighter Pocketbook
Are you a student training to become a firefighter? Or are you a seasoned veteran working towards sharpening your skillset? Then this is the app for you. The Firefighter Pocketbook is a comprehensive training tool for firefighters. This app includes verified material from the 2011 NFPA and IFSTA textbooks. Users can gain access to over 550 practice exam questions along with 700 flashcards.
Available for download on Android and iOS.
5-0 Police Scanner
Be always in the know about the latest emergencies that are happening in your town. The 5-0 Police Scanner is the largest collection of live police, firefighter, aircraft, railroad, emergency, news, and ham radios. This feed on this app displays on-going activity and real-time breaking news. Users can listen to the feeds and follow along. It even has a built-in police/EMS/fire/military codes and phonetic alphabet for easy interpretation.
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Fire Fighters Better Able to Track On-The-Job Exposures to Deadly Carcinogens and Other Toxins
New mobile app gathers valuable physical and behavioral
health data to help fire fighters battle occupational disease
WASHINGTON, DC — Fire fighters on the frontlines protecting their communities now have a valuable tool for recording and providing evidence of work-related exposures to help protect them against deadly cancers and other occupational hazards in the fire service.
The new National Fire Operations Reporting System (NFORS) Exposure Tracker is now available as an app for fire fighters, paramedics or officers to create a personal diary for logging exposure and incident details in a private, encrypted and secure online environment.
“This valuable tool will help provide fire fighters with the documentation they need to show on-the-job exposure to a toxic soup of carcinogens and ensure they have the resources to get healthy and return to work,” says Harold A. Schaitberger, General President of the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF).
The NFORS Fire Fighter Exposure Tracker was developed through a partnership with the IAFF, the International Associations of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), Metropolitan Fire Chiefs Association, International Public Safety Data Institute (IPSDI) and other fire service experts and is funded by the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighters grant program and the Ramsey Social Justice Foundation.
“The information gathered in the NFORS Exposure Tracker will provide essential data to help researchers better understand toxic exposures on the fire scene and develop new treatments and prevention protocols for occupational diseases, including cancer – now the leading cause of death among fire fighters,” says Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell, president and CEO of IPSDI.
As more governments enact legislation providing workers’ compensation coverage for fire fighters who contract cancer or develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the NFORS Exposure Tracker record provides detailed data on personal work-related exposures, which can be accessed anytime, even in retirement.
The IAFF and IPSDI are working together to assure that fire fighters using the NFORS Exposure Tracker can also easily register to be part of the National Firefighter Cancer Registry and other major fire fighter cancer studies by opting-in to share exposure data with researchers.
The Firefighter Cancer Registry, signed into law by President Trump in 2018, will provide researchers with a centralized database to acquire an abundance of high-quality data, such as work history and number and type of incidents to determine how fire fighters are contracting cancer.
Fire fighters can download the NFORS Exposure Tracker App free from app stores and complete an individual profile. The profile and data entered is encrypted and secure. Fire departments will not have access to your data. Fire departments participating in the NFORS Analytics (CAD Module) will receive periodic aggregate reports about overall exposure trends — not individual reports.
Fire fighters, paramedics and officers should encourage their fire departments to participate in this nationwide program to ensure that information about on-the-job exposures is readily available. By linking their fire department to NFORS Analytics, fire fighters’ incident data will automatically load directly into their personal exposure record without additional data entry.
NFORS was created by fire service research partners, including the International Association of Fire Chiefs, the Metropolitan Fire Chiefs Association, the International Association of Fire Fighters, the International Public Safety Data Institute, Underwriters Laboratory (UL), the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Urban Institute, the University of Texas at Austin and the Center for Public Safety Excellence.
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