- Title
- Review of injury data: Infantry and ADG: Report 3; Defence Physical Employment Standards Report: No. 3
- Creator
- Harvey, Jack; Payne, Warren; Otago, Leonie
- Date
- 2005
- Type
- Text; Report
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/40262
- Identifier
- vital:5766
- Identifier
- URN:ISBN:
- Abstract
- Military operational tasks are physically demanding and incur the risk of injury. In order to address the issues and costs associated with the high injury rates and focus on ways to reduce the risk of injury to Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel, the ADF Chiefs of Service Committee (COSC) has endorsed a number of injury prevention strategies aimed at examining, analysing and evaluating injury-related risks and hazards within the ADF. In line with those strategies, COSC has affirmed that ADF employment policy is to be competency based and agreed that physical employment standards should be developed for combat arms trades. The purpose of the Defence Physical Employment Standards Project (DPESP) is to develop these performance-based competency standards. The ADF has employed the services of the University of Ballarat (UB) to undertake the DPESP. This involves reviewing combat arms trade tasks (CATTs), establishing a set of criterion CATTs, developing a battery of simulation and predictive tests based on the criterion CATTs to be used to assess the physical competency of ADF combat personnel, and making recommendations for associated physical employment standards. In the initial phase, the study is focused on one Army corps - Infantry, and one Air Force mustering - Airfield Defence Guards (ADG)1. Data about ADF injuries can be found mainly in three systems: Defcare is the primary occupational health and safety (OHS) database administered by the Management Information Branch of the Occupational Health Safety and Compensation Branch (OHSCB); EpiTrack and Defence Injury Prevention Program (DIPP) databases are administered under separate programs within the Defence Health Service Branch (DHSB)
- Publisher
- Department of Defence
- Relation
- Defence Physical Employment Standards Projects: Infantry and Airfield Defence Guards
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- ADF; Airfield Defence Guards; Fitness; Physical employment
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