Work-based physiological assessment of physically-demanding trades: a methodological overview.

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Technological advances, modified work practices, altered employment strategies, work-related injuries, and the rise in work-related litigation and compensation claims necessitate ongoing trade analysis research. Such research enables the identification and development of gender- and age-neutral skills, physiological attributes and employment standards required to satisfactorily perform critical trade tasks. This paper overviews a methodological approach which may be adopted when seeking to establish trade-specific physiological competencies for physically-demanding trades (occupations). A general template is presented for conducting a trade analyses within physically-demanding trades, such as those encountered within military or emergency service occupations. Two streams of analysis are recommended:
the trade analysis and the task analysis. The former involves a progressive dissection of activities and skills into a series of specific tasks (elements), and results in a broad approximation of the types of trade duties, and the links between trade tasks. The latter, will lead to the determination of how a task is performed within a trade, and the physiological attributes required to satisfactorily perform that task. The approach described within this paper is designed to provide research outcomes which have high content, criterion-related and construct validities.

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Author/s: Taylor, Nigel A S (NA); Groeller, Herb (H);

Affiliation: Human Performance Laboratories, Department of Biomedical Science, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia. nigel_taylor@uow.edu.au

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Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Journal of physiological anthropology and applied human science (J Physiol Anthropol Appl Human Sci), published in Japan. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-Mar; vol 22 (issue 2) : pp 73-81

Dates: Created 2003/04/03; Completed 2003/06/25; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12672970, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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