Table 1 Participant Demographics.

		Proportion of surveyed firefighters/% (n = 10,649)
Sex	Male	87.1
	Female	6.4
	Other	0.0
Ethnicity	White	94.0
	Mixed race	1.3
	Black	0.5
	Asian	0.4
	Other	0.3
Age	< 24	2.6
	25–34	19.6
	35–44	34.3
	45–54	38.5
	55 +	4.0
Employment type*	Wholetime	73.9
	Retained	11.5
	Wholetime/retained	10.7
	Flexi-duty	3.1
	Other	0.4
Role	Firefighter	59.2
	Crew manager	18.0
	Watch manager	16.9
	Station manager	3.9
	Group manager	1.1
	Area manager	0.2
	Principal manager	0.1
	Other	0.2
Avg. no. fires attend	I do not attend fires	1.1
	< 1 per year	0.3
	1–2 per year	4.1
	1–2 per month	38.8
	1–2 per week	37.0
	> 3 per week	17.4
Years of service	0–9	23.5
	10–19	40.1
	20–29	31.6
	30–39	3.9
	40 +	0.4

The proportion of total surveyed firefighters belonging to each demographic category.
*Wholetime firefighters work full-time contracted hours/shift patterns.
Retained firefighters do not have contracted hours but are kept on a paid “retainer” contract, remaining on-call for emergencies.
Wholetime/retained firefighters represent wholetime firefighters who work a second retained contract outside of wholetime hours.
Flexi-duty firefighters work full-time contracted hours in a more flexible shift pattern.

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