Ambulance and EMS Vehicle Occupant Safety
Ambulance after 30 mile per hour barrier test.
Crash test dummies inside ambulance patient compartment.
USFA Partnership with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health on Emergency Services Vehicle Occupant Safety
USFA partnered with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to support their Evaluation of Emergency Services Vehicle Occupant Safety, a project which addresses ambulance and EMS vehicle safety.
The project outfitted an ambulance with two types of vehicle occupant restraints. Project objectives included the analysis of crash data for ambulance and EMS vehicles utilized by firefighters and emergency responders; a review of data on ambulance crash statistics; hazard identification and task analysis; determination of appropriate crash testing methodologies; development of occupant restraint systems; and modeling of ambulance crash scenarios. Human factors affecting the task performance of EMS workers in ambulance patient compartments were also analyzed.
