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Use of the Bootstrap Method to Develop a Physical Fitness Test for Public Safety Officers Who Serve as Both Police Officers and Firefighters

机译:使用Bootstrap方法为同时担任警官和消防员的公共安全官员制定身体素质测试

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Physical fitness testing is a common tool for motivating employees with strenuous occupations to reach and maintain a minimum level of fitness. Nevertheless, the use of such tests can be hampered by several factors, including required compliance with US antidiscrimination laws. The Highland Park (Texas) Department of Public Safety implemented testing in 1991, but no single test adequately evaluated its sworn employees, who are cross-trained and serve as police officers and firefighters. In 2010, the department's fitness experts worked with exercise physiologists from Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital to develop and evaluate a single test that would be equitable regardless of race/ethnicity, disability, sex, or age 50 years. The new test comprised a series of exercises to assess overall fitness, followed by two sequences of job-specific tasks related to firefighting and police work, respectively. The study group of 50 public safety officers took the test; raw data (e.g., the number of repetitions perform...
机译:体能测试是激励有艰苦职业的员工达到并保持最低体能水平的一种常用工具。但是,使用此类测试可能会受到多种因素的阻碍,包括必须遵守美国反歧视法律。高地公园(得克萨斯州)公共安全部于1991年进行了测试,但是没有一项单独的测试能够充分评估其宣誓就职的员工,这些员工经过交叉培训并担任警察和消防员。在2010年,该部门的健身专家与来自贝勒心脏和血管医院的运动生理学家合作,开发和评估了一项单一测试,无论种族,民族,残障,性别或年龄> 50岁如何,该测试都是公平的。新的测试包括一系列评估整体适应性的练习,然后是与消防和警察工作有关的两类特定于工作的任务序列。由50名公共安全官员组成的研究小组参加了测试;原始数据(例如,执行的重复次数...

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