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NIOSH Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance Primer

2025 ERHMS Guidance and Forms

By National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

About this book.

This NIOSH primer introduces the Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance framework. It provides step-by-step implementation guidance and forms for pre-deployment preparation, health monitoring during deployment, and post-deployment follow-up for responders and recovery workers.

Publication: May 2025; DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2025-107. Format: Original PDF, 164 pages.

Source credit: NIOSH [2025]. Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance Primer. By Bernard B, Shugart JM, Sarmiento L, Williams SC, Dowell CH. DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2025-107. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/publications/numbered/2025-107.html Original PDF: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2025-107/pdfs/2025-107.pdf Rights: Public domain, explicitly classified by the official CDC Stacks record. License or reuse statement: https://stacks.cdc.gov/Content%20and%20Copyright

EPS provides the original, unmodified PDF as a free resource. Original notices and contributor credits remain intact. No endorsement of EPS is implied by any author, publisher, agency, or trademark owner.

Materials developed by CDC/NIOSH. Use does not imply endorsement by CDC, NIOSH, HHS or the U.S. Government. Original material is available without charge from the agency website.

About the author.

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

Published by NIOSH and authored by Bruce Bernard, Jill M. Shugart, Luisa Sarmiento, Steven C. Williams, and Chad H. Dowell. Original author and contributor credits are retained in the PDF.