Pre-Employment physical capacity testing as a predictor of musculoskeletal injury in Victorian paramedics

N Jenkins, G Smith, S Stewart, C Kamphuis - Work, 2021 - content.iospress.com
… This study aimed to identify the type of musculoskeletal injury and the affected area of the …
pre-employment physical capacity testing scores and risk of workplace musculoskeletal injury …

Pre-placement examinations for newly recruited health care support staff

JYP Wong - Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
… Therefore, physical strength and musculoskeletal disorders … in addition to the standard
pre-employment health check. The … the independent variables or predicting factors. The Pearson …

Identifying Determinants of Performance for Females Completing a Paramedic Physical Employment Test

A Malone - 2023 - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
… A new pre-employment functional capacity evaluation predicts longer-term risk of musculoskeletal
injury in healthy workers: a prospective cohort study. Spine, 38(25), 2208-2215. Lentz, …

Is deep squat movement strategy related to floor-to-waist height lifting strategy: implications for physical employment testing

DP Armstrong, CEE Pegg, SL Fischer - Ergonomics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… squat (DS) kinematics could predict floor-to-waist height … referred to as a functional capacity
evaluation. Whether used … and postural demands on the musculoskeletal system we can offer …

Factors influencing the likelihood of females passing the Ottawa paramedic physical ability test

AL Malone, DP Armstrong, RS MacPhee, SL Fischer - Applied Ergonomics, 2024 - Elsevier
risks. Given that females are not well represented (in some jurisdictions) and may be at a
higher risk for … Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify factors that predict pass outcomes …

Feature detection and biomechanical analysis to objectively identify high exposure movement strategies when performing the EPIC lift capacity test

DP Armstrong, AR Budarick, CEE Pegg… - Journal of Occupational …, 2021 - Springer
… of job matching, functional capacity evaluations (FCEs) are … training, or sustained a
musculoskeletal injury preventing them from … In the longer term, this approach shows promise to …

A comparison of historical versus proposed physical employment standards for flight paramedics performing helicopter winch rescue

BN Meadley, J Caldwell-Odgers - Work, 2024 - content.iospress.com
… Specifically, for the historical land-based test, there would be significant chance of not
employing candidates with the required physical capacity and therefore would in fact be capable …

[HTML][HTML] Out on a limb: applying the Person-Environment-Occupation-Performance model to examine injury-linked factors among light rail drivers

A Naweed, L Bowditch, J Trigg, C Unsworth - Safety science, 2020 - Elsevier
… better understand work-related injuries and musculoskeletal … Prior physical status was
considered in pre-employment … , but also contribute to longer-term system improvements as a …

[图书][B] Pocket Consultant: Occupational Health

K Gardiner, D Rees, A Adisesh, D Zalk, JM Harrington - 2022 - books.google.com
… Although musculoskeletal disorders and stress-related … that time, and the often longer term
health problems that arise out of … pre-employment examinations to evaluate fitness of men to …

The physiological demands of helicopter winch rescue in water and over land

B Meadley, E Horton, L Perraton, K Smith, KA Bowles… - Ergonomics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
… Given the physiological workloads described for ICFP rescue tasks in the current study,
initial and ongoing physical capacity assessments that simulate the high relative workload and …