Characterising the physical demands of critical tasks across the Royal Australian Air Force.
BACKGROUND: Militaries have historically utilised generic physical fitness tests to assess physical readiness, but there has been a recent shift to develop physical employment standards (PES) based on actual job demands. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this investigation was to characterise the physical d...
| Publicado en: | Work Vol. 77; no. 4; pp. 1319 - 1330 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=176591154&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 176591154 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10519815 3RC jtl: Work issn: 10519815 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2024 vid: 77 iid: 4 pid: 344 pub: Sage Publications Inc. place: Thousand Oaks, California artinfo: ui: 176591154 175835384 176591154 176591154 10.3233/WOR-230274 176591154 ppf: 1319 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Characterising the physical demands of critical tasks across the Royal Australian Air Force. aug: au: Carstairs, Greg L. Michael, Scott W. Groeller, Herbert Drain, Jace R. affil: Human and Decision Sciences Division, Defence Science and Technology Group, Melbourne, VIC, Australia sug: subj: Physical Endurance Evaluation Employment Standards Physical Fitness Evaluation Military Personnel Australia Aircraft Task Performance and Analysis Personnel Selection Workforce Human Male Female Adult Middle Age Australia Descriptive Statistics Data Analysis Software Functional Status Physical Activity Muscle Strength Exercise Test, Muscular Cardiorespiratory Fitness Lifting Carrying Locomotion Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Male Female ab: BACKGROUND: Militaries have historically utilised generic physical fitness tests to assess physical readiness, but there has been a recent shift to develop physical employment standards (PES) based on actual job demands. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this investigation was to characterise the physical demands of critical tasks performed by Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) personnel to inform PES development. METHODS: Job task analysis were performed for 27 RAAF trades. Criterion tasks were identified through a systematic approach involving workshops and field-observations. The identified tasks were assessed for dominant physical capacity and grouped into movement-based clusters. Psychophysiological measures were collected from personnel performing the tasks. RESULTS: Of 87 criterion tasks, 92% were characterised as manual handling dominant. Across these 87 tasks the principal physical capacities were: muscular strength (59%), muscular endurance (52%) and cardiorespiratory endurance (39%). The most common movement clusters were Lift to Platform (44%) and Lift and Carry (38%). Lift to Platform tasks required lifting to a median height of 1.32 m (1.20 –1.65 m) and a median mass of 25.0 kg (21.0 –28.9 kg) per person. Median carry mass was 25.0 kg (22.4 –36.1 kg) per person and distance was 26.0 m (17.5 –50.0 m). Median task mean 'Vdot;O2, HR and RPE were 1.8 L.min- 1 (1.5–2.2 L.min- 1), 137 b.min- 1 (120–144) and 13 (12–14). CONCLUSIONS: The high proportion of manual handling criterion tasks emphasises the importance of these activities and the underlying physical capacities for RAAF personnel. Current fitness assessments are unlikely to predict job task performance. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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