Historical perspective on physical employment standards
| Autor: | Deborah L Gebhardt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Employment
Guidelines as Topic History 21st Century 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Multidisciplinary approach Right to Work Civil Rights Humans Personnel Selection Physical Examination ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION business.industry Rehabilitation Perspective (graphical) Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Law enforcement History 19th Century Social Discrimination 030229 sport sciences History 20th Century Public relations Private sector 030210 environmental & occupational health United States Test (assessment) Knowledge base Physical Fitness Workforce Narrative review business |
| Zdroj: | Work. 63:481-494 |
| ISSN: | 1875-9270 1051-9815 |
| Popis: | Background When one thinks of jobs with physical employment standards, the first thoughts typically center around firefighting, law enforcement, and military jobs. However, there are 100s of arduous jobs that exist in the public and private sectors that range from moderately demanding to strenuous. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 28% of the workforce in the United States performs physically demanding jobs that involve construction, machinery installation and repair, public safety, and other professions. Objective This paper provides a historical perspective of physical employment standards for hiring workers into these arduous jobs, how we arrived at our current knowledge base, and the challenges faced today when determining and implementing physical employment standards. Method This narrative review draws on evidence from 62 published sources. Results This paper focuses on the need for a multidisciplinary approach to identifying job requirements, the professions (e.g., medical, psychology, physiology) that underpin the methodologies, and the knowledge used by current researchers. Descriptions of test and cut score development, legal issues, and challenges for the future also are highlighted. |
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