Employment standards for australian Urban firefighters part 3: The transition from criterion task to test

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1083-1091

  Groeller, Herbert ^a   Fullagar, Hugh H K ^a   Sampson, John A ^a   Mott, Brendan J ^b   Taylor, Nigel A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b New South Wales Fire Brigades   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FIRE; FIRE FIGHTER; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SCREENING TEST; SIMULATION; STANDARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; AUSTRALIA; EVALUATION STUDY; FITNESS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; FIREFIGHTERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84944400635     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000527     Document Type: Article

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