BACKGROUND: When one thinks of jobs with physical employment standards, the first
thoughts typically center around firefighting, law enforcement, and military jobs. However …

Physical employment standards (PES) are developed with the aim of ensuring that an
employee's physical and physiological capacities are commensurate with the demands of …

Hard Work: Defining Physical Work Performance Requirements focuses on physically
demanding occupations that require strength and stamina, such as law enforcement …

Canadian court decisions and human rights legislation impose strict legal criteria for
developing applicant and incumbent physiological employment standards to qualify as a …

The world of work has many arduous jobs that require the worker to possess greater levels
of physical ability than found in the normal population. This chapter provides an overview of …

While the scope of the term physical employment standards is wide, the principal focus of
this paper is on standards related to physiological evaluation of readiness for work …

Abstract Reilly, TJ, Gebhardt, DL, Billing, DC, Greeves, JP, and Sharp, MA. Development
and implementation of evidence-based physical employment standards: key challenges in …

Because operational tasks in the uniformed services (military, police, fire and emergency
services) are physically demanding and incur the risk of injury, employment policy in these …

Workers in physically demanding occupations (PDOs) are frequently subjected to physical
selection tests. To avoid legal ramifications, workplaces must be able to show that any …

Physical ability assessment encompasses many fields of study, ranging from physiology and
biomechanics to applied psychology and medicine. Organizations with physically …