A NEEDS ASSESSMENT: BARRIERS TO WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FITNESS TRAINING

Abstract: Mangan, Aria, M.S, Spring 2015 Health and Human Performance A Needs Assessment: Barriers to Wildland Firefighters Fitness Training Chairperson: Dr. Annie Sondag Introduction: Working on a wildland fire can be physically and mentally taxing. Given the physical demands of the job, fitness is a key component in keeping wildland firefighters (WLFFs) healthy and safe from injury. Unfortunately little is known about physical training (PT) programs of WLFFs. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine motivators and barriers to PT in WLFFs. Personal, interpersonal, organizational and environmental factors that influence PT were identified. Strategies for overcoming barriers were recommended. Methods: This study utilized a descriptive research design. Information about PT practices was collected through interviews with key informants (i.e. individuals in leadership positions who work directly with crew members). Interview data was analyzed qualitatively. Additionally, a questionnaire based on information from the interviews was developed, reviewed by experts, pilot tested and distributed electronically to WLFFs. Questionnaire data was entered in the SPSS statistical program. Barriers and motivators to engaging in PT among crew type were examined for differences. Results: Sixteen interviews were conducted with key informants from multiple state, federal and volunteer agencies. Two over-arching concepts emerged from interviews as major influences on PT. The first concept, firefighter culture, encompassed several themes. Themes included the powerful influence of leadership and the desire to be seen as a strong, capable and dependable crew member. The second concept, environment, included the influence of factors such as training facilities and equipment and the need for more education about PT. Questionnaire results from over 1000 firefighters reveal the most frequently identified barrier to PT to be projects and work related trainings taking precedence over PT. Multiple motivating factors were identified including having a supervisor that participates in PT and wanting to be seen as a strong crew member. Conclusions: This project was an attempt to gain an understanding of the current PT practices of WLFFs. More importantly, results from this study identify, from the perspective of the firefighters themselves, the major motivators and barriers to engaging in quality, consistent PT

Pengaruh Budaya Organisasi dan Kepemimpinan terhadap Kinerja Pegawai Upt Laboratorium Kesehatan dan Lingkungan Dinas Kesehatan Provinsi Riau

This research held in Unit Pelaksana Teknis (UPT) LaboratoriumKesehatan & Lingkungan Dinas Kesehatan Riau Province. This research held in order to analyze the influence of organization culture and leadership to employees performance. Population are all employees, consist of 45 people. Considering the number limitation so sampling method used is census that covers all employee as the respondents. Variables used are organization culture and leadership as independent and performance as dependent. Data analyzed by using descriptive analysis and multiple regression analysis by using SPSS 17 for windows. Result of this study shows that both organization culture and leadership significantly influence, either in simultenously or partially, to employees performance. Organization culture is the dominant factor that influence employees performance compared to influence given by leadership factor. It is recommended to company to enhance organization culture implementation, particularly on innovation and cooperative ability aspect. Leadership promotion needs to involve employees aspiration and all unit leaders are suggested to directly show good behavior to all employees.Keywords: Organization Culture, Leadership and Performanc

Numerical life prediction of mechanical fatigue for hot forging tools

Issu de : ESAFORM 2009 - 12th ESAFORM Conference on material forming, Enschede, THE NETHERLANDS, 27–29 April 2009International audienceIn the forging industry, tools represent an important part in term of production and costs. Enhancing their life cycle is then a challenging issue. Several mechanical and thermal mechanisms are responsible for hot forging tools damage such as wear, thermal and mechanical fatigue. This work will be focused only on the mechanical fatigue life prediction for hot forging tools. Both experimental data analysis and numerical simulation will be discussed in this paper. The aim is to perform qualitative and quantitative indicators of mechanical fatigue. First, experimental data of fatigue tests are used to identify both plastic strain-based Manson Coffin and stress-based Basquin life laws for 2 tool steel grades. These laws are quite classical for fatigue prediction [1-4]. The half-life strain or stress amplitudes are usually used for their identification but these amplitudes are very expensive to obtain from a numerical point of view since it is well known that hot work martensitic steels present a continuous cyclic softening from the first cycle till the rupture. Therefore an important number of cycles have to be simulated to reach these mechanical parameters at half-life. For all theses reasons, an alternative methodology is used [4]. The fatigue life curves are established using the mechanical parameters that are identified from the first hysteresis loops of fatigue experiments. Comparisons are performed with the fatigue laws coming from more classical identification procedure performed at half life cycle. Good agreement is shown between experimental data and the new laws. A lower scattering is even observed in experimental results in comparison to the traditional fatigue laws. Then these new laws are introduced in the commercial software Forge® and are then applied to different industrial cases. A pretty good agreement is observed between predicted tool life and industrial value

Gambaran CT Scan Toraks Sesuai dengan Jenis Sitologi/Histologi pada Pasien Kanker Paru yang Merokok

Kanker paru merupakan  penyebab kematian paling banyak akibat keganasan. Kanker paru memberikan gambaran CT scan yang berbeda sesuai dengan jenis sitologi/histologinya. Pemeriksaan CT scan  toraksdengan teknik high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) dapat memperlihatkan kelainan kanker parusecara rinci. Penelitian dilakukan di Instalasi Radiologi RSU Persahabatan, Jakarta bekerja sama denganDepartemen Pulmonologi dan Respirasi RSU Persahabatan terhadap 100 sampel yang diperoleh pada bulanNovember 2014 hingga Maret 2015. Berdasarkan jenis sitologi/histologi kanker paru (adenokarsinoma dankarsinoma sel skuamosa/KSS) tidak ditemukan  variabel yang bermakna secara statistik  (bentuk, letak, tepispikulasi, tepi lobulasi, nodul satelit). Variabel yang paling banyak ditemukan pada adenokarsinoma maupunKSS adalah bentuk massa, lokasi di sentral dan paru sebelah kanan. Gambaran kanker paru adenokarsinomadan KSS pada pasien merokok paling banyak berupa massa, lokasi di sentral dan lobus kanan paru

Kajian Pengaruh Adat Istiadat, Religi, dan Alam pada Bangunan Adat, Lembah Kuta Ciamis

Impact ofdevelopment period, building and material grown sophisticated that is in use for building Vernacular Architecture in Indonesian, particulary at theKampung Kuta Ciamis. Furthermore, there is certain factors that affect the building such as custom, religion and nature. That factors have effected form, space and structure. Whichthis Factors have been tradition for generation were maintained. Therefore, in this study has been observe for building to find out the factors dominant. Used esplorative,qualitative descriptive methodwith motode scoring.With this metode, the result is costume factor has effected for form, space and structure. In this study, the conclution is costume factor is the major factor at house of Kampung Adat Kuta. Seen from the result obtained from research traditional building of Kampung Kuta, still have Vernacular Architectural value

Draft Genome Sequence of the Psychrotolerant Bacterium Kurthia sibirica ATCC 49154T

The aerobic, Gram-positive, psychrotolerant bacterium Kurthia sibirica was first isolated from the stomach and intestinal contents of the Magadan mammoth recovered from the permafrost in eastern Siberia in 1977. K. sibirica was sequenced, and the predicted genome size is 3,496,665 bp, with 36.42% G+C content

EVALUASI KRITERIA KARAKTERISTIK BIOGRAFI, PENDIDIKAN, PENGALAMAN DAN PENGETAHUAN DALAM PROSES SELEKSI UNTUK MEMPREDIKSIKAN PRESTASI KERJA KARYAWAN TENAGA PENJUAL PADA PT SURAPITA UNITRANS SURABAYA

Pengaruh seleksi dalam penempatan kerja dalam suatu perusahaan semakin penting artinya dalam upaya meningkatkan pre stasi keIja karyawan secara efektif dan efisien. Dalam peningkatan prestasi keIja karyawan diperlukan kriteria seleksi yang mendukung diantaranya karakteristik biografi, pendidikan, pengalaman dan pengetahuan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk : mengetahui pengaruh kriteria seleksi dalam penempatan tenaga kerja secara signifikan terhadap pre stasi kerja karyawan tenaga penjual pada PT SURAPIT A UNITRANS Surabaya