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Quantification Of On-Duty Workload In Active-Duty Firefighters, Rudi A. Marciniak

Theses and Dissertations

Firefighters are at an elevated risk of musculoskeletal and cardiovascular injury driven by over-exertion. To date, workload in the fire service is quantified as the call volume of a 24-hour shift. However, call volume does not account for the individual demands of different call types (i.e., medical vs. fire emergency), nor does it account for the influence of individual differences on responses to job demands. Sport-athlete populations have utilized traditional external (i.e., stimulus) and internal (i.e., response) training load measures to quantify task workload and inform injury-prevention strategies, however, minimal use of such measures have been utilized in an on-duty …