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Psychological Fitness-For-Duty Examinations:
Police officers with known or suspected psychological or behavioral problems often present complex issues for administrators. For example, an officer who was once a productive and respected member of a department now shows a distinct change in behavior or attitude that is confusing, frightening, or irritating to his or her supervisors and coworkers. Such an officer can have a profound effect on...
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BACKGROUND Auditory fitness for duty (AFFD) refers to the possession of hearing abilities sufficient for safe and effective job performance. In jobs such as law enforcement and piloting, where the ability to hear is critical to job performance and safety, hearing loss can decrease performance, even to the point of being hazardous to self and others. Tests of AFFD should provide an employer with...
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Firefighting is a hazardous and physically demanding activity. The demanding nature of the tasks involved in firefighting requires a high level of fitness both for the safety of the firefighting personnel as well as for the adequate performance of their tasks. Here, the characteristics (body weight, lung function, etc.) of a small group of refinery firefighters were investigated using explorato...
متن کاملUsing Time Perception to Measure Fitness for Duty.
Assessing fitness for duty (FFD) typically requires expensive equipment and large time windows. Here we capitalize on basic principles of human time perception to build a portable software package that can quickly and efficiently test for excessive fatigue or traumatic brain injury. Time perception involves a collaboration of many brain areas, and we hypothesize that generalized damage to the b...
متن کاملThe American Psychiatric Association's resource document on guidelines for psychiatric fitness-for-duty evaluations of physicians.
The psychiatric evaluation of a physician's fitness for duty is an undertaking that is both important to patients' well-being and to the physician-subject of the evaluation. It is necessary that psychiatrists who agree to perform such evaluations proceed in a careful and thorough manner. This document was developed to provide general guidance to the psychiatric evaluators in these situations. I...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1076-2752
DOI: 10.1097/jom.0b013e31822b8356