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TPVH 3rd Negotiations meeting, 29 April 2024 Brussels Belgium

TPVH 3rd Negotiations meeting, 29 April 2024

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Apr. 21, 2022

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Minimising firefighters' exposure to fire effluents

We are publishing a report commissioned by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) from the United Kingdom to UCLAN (The University of Central Lancashire) about the risks for fire fighters and their exposure to toxic effluents.

Nov. 12, 2021

EPSU report to highlight the need to invest in emergency services to adapt to climate change

Has the EU forgotten about firefighters and emergency services?

As part of the European Green Deal, the European Commission launched in February 2021 a new strategy on adaptation to climate change. The objective is to make the European Union a climate-resilient society, fully adapted to climate change by 2050.

May. 19, 2021

Documents Firefighters' Network

2021 draft report on asbestos - posted 14/04 EPSU firefighters and emergency services workers - Adaptation to climate change - posted 19/05

Sep. 03, 2019

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Public and Private Sector efficiency

A major review of hundreds of academic studies reveals that there is no empirical evidence that the private sector is intrinsically more efficient than the public sector

Dec. 19, 2017

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EPSU feature on adaptation to climate change

The heatwaves and droughts, storms and flooding that have hit Europe and other parts of the world this summer have left no doubt about the devastating consequences of extreme weather events linked to climate change.