Personal Exposure Reporting System

 

California Professional Firefighters’ Personal Exposure Reporting (PER) system is your best defense for identifying and documenting hazardous exposure trends on the job. Whether entered online (http://www.peronline.org/) or through the mail, CPF's PER system provides employees unmatched protection, security and confidentiality. 

 

 

WHY SHOULD FIREFIGHTERS REPORT?
Because of what they face on the job, firefighters and EMTs are at greater risk of contracting cancer, tuberculosis, and other blood-borne diseases. The cancer rate alone among firefighters has more than doubled in the last three decades.

 

California’s cancer and tuberculosis presumption laws require that firefighters document occupational exposures to hazardous agents. In the case of cancer, the carcinogen must also have a scientific link to the form of cancer contracted. In the case of TB and other contagions, the presumptions that do exist are rebuttable, meaning the firefighter needs to have the evidence to prove exposure.

 

CPF’s Personal Exposure Reporting System meets the linkage requirements for cancer. It meets the test for proving exposure in rebuttable presumption cases. And by documenting exposures and their effects, the PER system furthers efforts aimed at prevention.

 

PER AND PREVENTION
To eliminate incidents of occupational cancer and infectious disease transmission, controlling exposure to carcinogens and infectious agents is essential. Using the PER, firefighters are facing the challenge of prevention. Working together to record on-the-job exposures, they are helping to identify when, where, and under what circumstances they are exposed to hazardous agents. Ultimately, these efforts will help us to find needed solutions to the problem of firefighter cancer and illness.

 

The Firefighter Personal Exposure Record is the best defense against hazardous on-the-job exposures, for today and for tomorrow. The Exposure Record is the best tool for preventing cancer and infectious diseases in the future...because firefighters deserve the best!

 

 

Members of Local #2881(CDF) are covered for the Reporting System

 

 

All Firefighter II's and above are prepaid by the department. If you are signing up for the first time, go to the link that is provided on this page. Then go to the link located on the left side "Join PER System". Fill out the required information. Once you submit the information, it will ask you to print out the confirmation information and mail it in, DISREGARD THAT. Simply wait for them to process your information and you will receive an email that your account has been activated. Then you will be able to begin using the Personal Exposure Reporting System.

For more information or to enroll in the Personal Exposure Record System, go to www.peronline.org, or contact Firefighters Research and Education at: