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EMS is known to be a high‐risk profession; EMS personnel are 2.5 times more likely than the average worker to be killed on the job [83], and their transportation‐related injury rate is five times higher than average [84]. Additionally, there are patient safety concerns as outlined in the 1999 IOM report To Err is Human, as well as concerns about risks to EMS personnel, patients, and the community from ambulance crashes. In 2009, the National EMS Advisory Council recommended that NHTSA create a strategy for building a culture of safety in EMS. With support from the EMSC program at HRSA, NHTSA contracted with ACEP to develop a National EMS Culture of Safety Strategy that was published in October 2013 [85]. This initiative resulted in the formation of the National EMS Safety Council composed of multiple EMS stakeholder organizations to continue to focus on safety considerations for EMS clinicians.