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Introduction: Applied occupational health research is complex and requires transparent communication between stakeholders to facilitate development and implementation of injury management strategies. Firefighting as a physically demanding, male-dominant occupation provides a unique context to develop and implement injury management strategies. Thesis Objectives: To investigate how individuals perform occupational tasks within a physically demanding occupational context considering the interrelationship between personal, task and environmental factors. A secondary objective was to evaluate the research partnership as integrated knowledge translation using the Knowledge-to-Action (KTA) Framework. Methods. A qualitative study was used to identify barriers and facilitators experienced by female firefighters. Dartfish movement analysis software was adapted to analyze kinematics associated with firefighter tasks. Relative and absolute reliability was used to establish measurement properties of Dartfish methods. Regression models identified the relative importance of individual factors on firefighter task performance. A case study of the research partnership using knowledge translation (KT) theory identified critical phases in developing occupational health research partnerships. Results. The qualitative study identified sex/gender and task/environment effects on firefighter task performance and injury risk. Tracking positional co-ordinate data using Dartfish demonstrated excellent relative reliability (ICC2,1 = 0.84-0.99) and lowest absolute reliability (SEM = 0.01m-0.11m). Strength was the strongest independent predictor of …