National standard on annual firefighter health monitoring

Conference notes the Fire Brigades Union alongside the University of Central Lancashire have worked tirelessly on research surrounding firefighter exposure to contaminants and the direct links to cancer. What is now world-renowned research, DECON is the single biggest shift in how we approach everything we do in our role as firefighters.

Conference recognises that the World Health Organisation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has officially declared firefighting as a cancer-causing profession. A move that has major implications for the manner in which cancer is managed for firefighters and fire services across the world.

Conference instructs the Executive Council through the relevant National Officer to establish a National Standard, negotiated through the National Joint Council, on annual firefighter health monitoring for all UK Fire and Rescue Services.