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In the line of fire: protecting emergency workers

Lucie Ponting | Feature | HSW
09.06.2008

By definition, emergency workers often face danger at work. But as they go about the daily business of saving lives and protecting people, they now face an extra set of risks that no one would have predicted a couple of generations ago, in the form of attacks from the public.

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