Employment standards for australian Urban firefighters: Part 2: The physiological demands and the criterion tasks
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2015, 57 (10), pp. 1072 - 1082
- Issue Date:
- 2015-01-01
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© 2015 American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Objective: The physiological demands of 15 essential, physically demanding fire-fighting tasks were investigated to identify criterion tasks for bona fide recruit selection. Methods: A total of 51 operational firefighters participated in discrete, field-based occupational simulations, with physiological responses measured throughout. Results: The most stressful tasks were identified and classified according to dominant fitness attributes and movement patterns. Three movement classes (single-sided load carriage [5 tasks], dragging loads [4 tasks], and overhead pushing and holding objects [2 tasks]) and one mandatory strength task emerged. Seven criterion tasks were identified. Load holding and carriage dominated these movement patterns, yet no task accentuated whole-body endurance. Conclusion: Material handling movements from each classification must appear within a physical aptitude (selection) test for it to adequately represent the breadth of tasks performed by Australian urban firefighters.
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