Table 2.
Factors that influencing firefighters' occupational resilience based on stakeholders’ experiences in Iran.
| Categories | Sub-categories | Sub-sub-categories | Example of cods |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual | Mental | Mood | Presence of mental symptoms, anger, tolerating heartbreaking scenes, saddened by the death of colleagues, intellectual conflict, depression, supernatural forces, mental peace, tired of working, mind set of events, fear of previous events, hope for the future, discouragement, tolerance threshold, vigilance, |
| Personality | Pride, motivation, sacrifice, negligence, laziness, sensitivity on shared accessories patience, obedience, composure, being fearless, self-confidence, being cautious, temper, ‘commitment, flexibility in behavior, | ||
| Anxiety | Stress, stress tolerance, family stress, positive stress, alarm stress, waking up with stress, sleeping with stress, taking work stress to family, anxiety, | ||
| Perceptional factors | Underestimating hazards, acting thoughtfully, evaluation, self-protection, keeping the safe distance, mind fullness, ensuring health, observing safety tips, using PPE, creativity, intellectual readiness, tolerating people's pressure, flexibility | ||
| Physical | Physical health | Lung injury, healthy eyesight, healthy hearing, musculoskeletal disorders, disabled, injured, occupational disease, digestive problems, heart health, chronic illness, occupational injury, smoking, | |
| Physical fitness | BMI, physical strengthening, physical endurance, physical readiness, agility, sedentary, physical strength, speed, power, cardiac endurance, pulmonary endurance, cardiopulmonary endurance, athletic competence, muscular balance, | ||
| Occupational | Professional skills | Operational literacy, technical skill, material recognition, knowing hazards, navigation, knowing extinguishers, specialty in job position, being up to date, knowing tools, knowing buildings, knowing industries, familiarity with new hazards, skills in various posts, time management, asking people, | |
| Experience | Exposure to events, experienced people skills, being newly hired, entering accidents experience, practice in the dark, experience in using fire extinguishers, transfer of experiences, writing experiences, experience in a variety of accidents, applying the experience of other countries, | ||
| Job-related factors | Job complexity, unknown risks, dissimilarity of events, specific hazards, heartbreaking scenes, carrying people, carrying heavy objects, unavoidable hazards, road hazards, second job fatigue, burning out job repetitive work, exposure to hazardous substances, job satisfaction, sleeping under the bell, loud noises, physical work, working at night, long working shift | ||
| Ergonomic factors | Sleep disorders, insufficient sleep, working shift, sleeping with stress, equipment matching with body, heat tolerance, cold tolerance, thermal adaptation, enough rest, individuals’ physique | ||
| Organizational | Managers | Managers performance | collaboration between stations, screening in employment, financial motivation, retraining courses, meritocracy, specialized teams, identifying unsafe buildings, promoting people awareness, Incident Command System (ICS), lack of enough personnel, unnecessary presence of officials, |
| Welfare | Financing, nutrition, psychological interventions, meeting individual needs, periodic examinations, recovery, supporting the injured, scientific counseling, | ||
| Colleagues | Colleagues competency | Physical readiness of colleagues, negligence of colleagues, health of others, being social, commander's readiness, commander's composure, personnel's scientific information | |
| Workplace relationships | Supporting each other, commander's unkindness, transfer of experiences, commander's experience, commander's management, colleagues' experiences, relaxing by colleagues, teamwork, solidarity, communication with the superiors, dividing tasks, | ||
| Equipment | Station | Low station space, station location, receiving few calls, convenient station environment, | |
| Personal protective equipment | Equipment fitness for people, shared PPE, suitable clothing, complete equipment, worn-out PPE, standard equipment, maintenance of equipment, equipment efficiency, outdated equipment, robots, | ||
| Social | Environment | Accident environment | Unknown environments, illegal electricity branches, safe route, wrong use, unsafe storage, uniformity of buildings, standard building, illegal warehousing, defective wiring, extinguishing systems, lack of information about the building, |
| Society | Citizens | Trusting people, unsafe behavior of the people, people's attitude towards firefighters, incident information, people wrong guidance, people's culture, obedience, people's lack of awareness, people's cooperation, | |
| Family | Family-related factors | Family problems, marital status, having children, family worries, family support, disorder in family life, family job information, financial challenge, entertainment programs, family spirit, |