Army Injury Prevention

Weather Related Injuries

Last Updated: July 30, 2018

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Information regarding heat-related injuries, cold weather, and prevention tactics.

Heat Illnesses
See all APHC Heat Illness related information, slide deck and other training tools at: Heat Injury Prevention

Cold Weather Injuries

See all APHC cold weather related information, slide deck, and other training tools at: Cold Injury Prevention

Other Articles

Army Injuries, Causes, Risk Factors, and Prevention Overview

General information on Army Injuries, Injury Causes and Risk Factors, and Prevention.

Army Injury Prevention Factsheets and Training Products

Fact sheets and training products regarding types of injuries associated with activities, risk factors, and means to reduce associated injuries

Installation Injury Monitoring Tools

Links for Army injury surveillance definitions, and several reports including: Army Strategic Management System (SMS); Public Health Management System (PHMS); Public Health 360 (PH360); and the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Installation Injury Reports.

Military Activity Related Injuries

Information pertaining to prevention of injury from military activities, including: Basic and Initial Entry Training; Deployment; Obstacle Courses and Combatives; Parachuting; Physical Fitness Training; Road Marching; and more.

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Slip, Trip and Fall Related Injuries

Information on injury prevention related to slips, trips and falls.

Sports and Physical Training Injuries

Injury prevention pertaining to sports and physical training, including: ECPs; Physical Training; Running; Stretching; Team Sports; Warm Up/Cool Down; Weight-Training; Winter Sports; and other general topics.

Vehicle Accident Injuries

Information pertaining to prevention of vehicle injuries, including: Motorcycles; Privately owned vehicles; and Vehicles used in military operations and training.

Vision and Hearing Injuries

Information pertaining to prevention of vision and hearing injuries.

Workplace Safety and Ergonomics

Information pertaining to workplace safety and ergonomics-related injuries.