A study that described the development and validation of a protocol for testing the physical fitness of initial attack wildland firefighters.
Gumieniak RJ, Gledhill N, Jamnik VK. Physical employment standard for Canadian wildland fire fighters; developing and validating the test protocol. Ergonomics. 2018 May 2. https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2018.1462408 [Epub ahead of print]
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